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WWII soldier celebrates his 100th birthday by completing 14,000ft skydive

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This is the amazing moment a former soldier celebrated his 100th birthday by completing a skydive 74 years after he jumped out of a plane during WWII.

Thrill-seeker Thomas Hodgson shouted "bloody grand" as he came down on Sunday, July 7 at Skydive Northwest in Cumbria.

Hodgson was born on June 30, 1919 - the same year as the end of the First World War, when Charles Strite invented the Pop-Up Toaster and Lady Astor became the first woman to take her seat in parliament.

He joined the territorial army and was assigned to the fifth battalion border regiment where he was a Bren gun carrier driver.

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