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RETIRED army lieutenant, mutineer, osteopath and alternative medicine practitioner Reginald Andrew “Rex” Lassalle has died.

Lassalle, born in Belmont in the 1940s, spent his last days in Finland, passing away earlier this month.

His death was announced and mourned by his colleagues on social media who remembered him as a mentor and a pioneer of the Japanese massage therapy known as shiatsu.