"A 99-year-old war veteran who served in a secret unit created by Winston Churchill has died from coronavirus at a care home. Charles Wright, from Ipswich, Suffolk, was among a select few sent behind enemy lines during the second world war, before being captured and imprisoned for more than a year. His family sadly announced he had died at Willows Care Home on Friday morning. Charles' death from Covid-19 comes amid alarming death toll figures in care homes, which are feared to be as high as 7,500. Charles, who was born in 1921, began his military career at age 15, joining the 161 field ambulance unit by saying he was 17. He then served in the Second World War, being picked to join a secret unit formed by Winston Churchill to go behind enemy lines in Russia. The operation took him to Norway, before he was moved to fight the Germans and Italians in the Siege of Malta between 1940 and 1942. He was later captured as a Prisoner Of War on the Greek island of Leros where he was held for 18 months before being released to return home. In 1946, he married his wife Ruby and the couple went on to have three children, 12 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8233839/WWII-hero-99-worked-Winston-Churchills-secret-unit-dies-coronavirus-care-home.html
