RIP Tony Eldridge
Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 7:55 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... riner.html
Tony "Lofty" Eldridge, who has died aged 91, led the last human torpedo attack of the Second World War, which sank two Japanese ships off Phuket.
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