Even though his family couldn't join him, care home residents and staff still threw Reg a (self-distancing) party 🎂
A war veteran who survived the Spanish flu epidemic has celebrated his 107th birthday with a party at his care home.
However, that didn’t stop residents and staff at the Forder Lane House Care Home in Dartington, Devon, from throwing him a party. Reg, who was born in Shropshire a year before the start of World War One, has lived through the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, was 21 when Hitler came to power in Germany, and has lived under 21 Prime Ministers and four monarchs.
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