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Army knew underwater radios were faulty before fatal diving accident, report reveals
Lance Corporal George Partridge
A SOLDIER who drowned on a diving course was sent underwater with equipment that the military knew to be faulty, an investigation has found.
Lance Corporal George Partridge was 27 when he died at the National Dive Centre in Tidenham, Gloucestershire, on March 26 last year.
His wife Zoe was expecting their first child.
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