Former Royal Navy hockey player Admiral Dick Wildish has celebrated his 101st birthday. He played in the Inter Services hockey matches in 1939 and again in 1946 and is currently the longest serving Vice President of the Royal Navy Hockey Association (RNHA), having been elected in 1970.
During WW2 he saw very active service, surviving the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales in the South China Sea by the Japanese on 10 December 1941, just a few days after Pearl Harbour. Having made it to the relative refuge of Singapore, he then escaped from there before the Japanese overran it.
Having now made it to 101, Admiral Wildish is clearly a survivor.
Mike Haymonds, 8 March 2016
