Long, long ago I did an article on the unluckiest individuals in history. But spurred on by the Gannet Club I’ve started to think in terms of the luckiest and I’ve come across an absolute winner, Gordon Selby, a much decorated son of a Wiltshire farrier. GS obit 2007 was twenty when the Second World War began and was already a gunner in the navy. He volunteered for submarines and before long he found himself in the single most dangerous branch of the British military in terms of survival. He was, indeed, one of very few British submarine men who made it through the whole war, which is in itself remarkable. But what is striking is how close he came to the chopper on seven occasions during and after that conflict.

via Gordon Selby: The Luckiest Survivor of WW2? – Beachcombing’s Bizarre History Blog.