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The last survivor of a torpedoed World War II ship has died aged 101 - on his daughter s birthday - after testing positive for Covid-19. Dennis Morley, from Chalford, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, was a prisoner on the Japanese ship Lisbon Maru when it was attacked by an American submarine in 1942 and more than 800 captured British troops died when it went down. Mr Morley survived and after being rescued from the sea remained a prisoner of war of the Japanese until Christmas Day 1945. Exactly 75 years later he spent Christmas 2020 in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital being treated for a leg infection and a fall. ....