Eric de la Torre
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Eric de la Torre
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Luis Eric Rupert de la Torre, MBE was a veteran of the St Nazaire Raid, a prison camp escapee, and the manager of a sports shop in north London. Eric de la Torre was born in London to a Spanish father and Irish mother. He attended the John Fisher School in Croydon. In 1940 he was recruited to the accounts section of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, but he sought and obtained a transfer to No. 3 Commando. He took part in a commando raid on Vågsøy, Norway on 27 December 1941, in the capacity of radi
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British Army soldier
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2023-05-30T23:44:41Z
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