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Veteran Roger Roberts and care assistant Holli Whitehouse in the water as Roger goes swimming for the first time since WW2. A 97-year-old World War II veteran has gotten back in the water for a swim for the first time since surviving a sinking ship. See SWNS story SWLSswim. Roger Roberts, who lives at Foley Grange care home in Kidderminster, joined the army when he was just 16 years old. He later enrolled in the Royal Navy in 1943, boarding the HMS Charybdis, a Dido-class cruiser launched in 1940. In October 1943, the HMS Charybdis was hit by German torpedo boats in the English Channel.