Doug Gilling, last of the Australian 'Yachties' who volunteered for the wartime Royal Navy – obituary

Lieutenant Doug Gilling, who had died aged 103, was the last of the Dominion yachtsmen who volunteered to join the Navy during the Second World War.

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