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Рубрики WWII; Современность; Версия для печати

Британские военные некрологи ("Ежедневный Телеграф")

Major David Liddell
Soldier whose attack on a machine-gun post earned him an MC and who later bred prize-winning cattle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1929634/Major-David-Liddell.html

Diana Barnato Walker
'Atagirl' who delivered hundreds of planes during the war and was the first woman to break the sound barrier.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1927116/Diana-Barnato-Walker.html

George Patterson
Malayan administrator who was ADC to General Percival at the fall of Singapore.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1915369/George-Patterson.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1896197/Barbara-McDermott.html

Bruce Wyllie
Tail-end Charlie whose wartime experience was drawn on by historians.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1895819/Bruce-Wyllie.html

Colonel Vic Senior
Tank commander awarded an MC for holding his ground against a German Panzer division in the Tunisian desert.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1561144/Colonel-Vic-Senior.html

Major-General Edward Fursdon
Enterprising staff officer who became The Daily Telegraph's defence correspondent

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1539684/Major-General-Edward-Fursdon.html

Sydney Dowse
Leading figure in the Great Escape who spent two weeks on the run and subsequently survived a 'death camp'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1584759/Sydney-Dowse.html

Captain William Long
Yorkshireman who was Northern Ireland's home affairs minister at the start of the Troubles.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1584531/Captain-William-Long.html

Air Vice-Marshal Ron Dick
Fighter pilot, V-bomber squadron commander and historian of aviation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1584399/Air-Vice-Marshal-Ron-Dick.html


Professor John Wheeler
Physicist who worked with Bohr and Teller and coined the term 'black hole'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1895617/Professor-John-Wheeler.html

И не совсем британские, но так или иначе топичные

Philipp Von Boeselager
Last of the conspirators in the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler, whose role remained undetected until after the war.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1922004/Philipp-Von-Boeselager.html

Rosario Sánchez Mora
Republican heroine of the Spanish Civil War known as 'The Dynamite Girl’'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1900515/Rosario-Sand225nchez-Mora.html

Barbara McDermott
Penultimate survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 who clearly recalled the moment the doomed liner was torpedoed.

"Бій відлунав. Жовто-сині знамена затріпотіли на станції знов"