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Рубрики WWI; WWII; Версия для печати

Военные некрологи из британских газет

Chief Petty Officer Bill Stone
One of the last survivors of both world wars who served with the Royal Navy for 30 years, witnessing events from the scuttling of the German Fleet to Dunkirk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4224557/Chief-Petty-Officer-Bill-Stone.html

Major Peter Lewis
Infantry officer who came under heavy fire in North Africa and escaped en route to a German prisoner-of-war camp.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4218443/Major-Peter-Lewis.html

Colonel David Smiley
Special forces and intelligence officer renowned for cloak-and-dagger operations behind enemy lines on many fronts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4210129/Colonel-David-Smiley.html

Aubrey Beaty
Artillery officer believed to have been the first British soldier to cross the German frontier in 1944.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4177276/Aubrey-Beaty.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Leith-Macgregor
Pilot who won an MC and was pulled from his burning cockpit by German troops after one of several crashes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4163054/Lieutenant-Colonel-Robert-Leith-Macgregor.html

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