He has remained a medical mystery since the day he died. He was never publicly named, and neither was the disease he died of.
But 40 years on, ITV can finally pay tribute to the first recorded AIDS victim to die in Britain. His name was John Eaddie.
We've discovered that John died on October 29th 1981 at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea. His cause of death was recorded as pneumocystis pneumonia.
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