Hero in a living hell

ONE of Britain's last remaining hero Chindits has died aged 104.

- BY LUCY THORNTON

In Chindits after call-up aged just 19

Charlie Richards told last year how he survived a living hell during the Second World War as part of the special forces unit fighting deep behind enemy lines in Burma in 1943-45, as the nation celebrated VE Day back home.

His elite unit, which later became known as the "Forgotten Army", survived hundreds of miles inside enemy territory in steamy jungles of the Far East, now Myanmar.