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Eric "Yorky" Heptonstall had just gone on watch when the torpedo struck HMS Denbigh Castle past midnight. He returned to UK aboard the escort carrier HMS Nairana for survivors leave before being posted to Hong Kong in order to join HMS Newfoundland under refit.

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