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Show Oldest Private Soldier, 66, Returns to His Home AUCKLAND, N. Z. Pvt. Tom Mockford, one of the oldest army privates in the world, is home again his gay '90s mustache intact despite de-spite action in Greece, Crete and Libya before he fell into German hands. The 66-year-old New Zealander, a veteran of the South African and the First World war, left for Dune-dine, Dune-dine, where three wounded sons who enlisted with him await his arrival. Captured by the Germans in the second Libyan campaign, Private Mockford escaped three times, but each time Nazi patrols recaptured him. He finally was repatriated. |