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Рубрики WWII; Современность; Версия для печати

Военные некрологи из британских газет

The Right Rev Noël Jones
Inspirational Chaplain of the Fleet who became Bishop of Sodor and Man and a staunch opponent of the ordination of women

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6829386.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6169713/The-Right-Reverend-Nol-Jones.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Walker-Brown
SAS veteran whose relentless guerrilla operations in Italy distracted German attention from a US offensive

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6827905.ece

Aage Bohr
Nuclear physicist who worked with his father on the atom bomb and, like him, won the Nobel Prize

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6169714/Aage-Bohr.html

Major 'Pom' Goudge
Officer who rescued his men when German tanks pinned them down

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6169683/Major-Pom-Goudge.html

Group Captain Eric Lake
RAF engineer who hunted U-boats with Coastal Command and later saw service in the Queen's Flight

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/6118428/Group-Captain-Eric-Lake.html

Captain Dennis Parkin
Officer wounded under heavy fire in Burma who was dragged to safety through a rice field by his batman

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6106525/Captain-Dennis-Parkin.html

Major-General Peter Bush
Soldier who served in conflict zones from Italy to Northern Ireland, where his HQ was called 'Camp Knickers'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6062319/Major-General-Peter-Bush.html

Wing Commander Les Harland
Bomber pilot at Alamein who later flew helicopters in Malaya and tested missiles for fighter aircraft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/6050970/Wing-Commander-Les-Harland.html

Lt-Cdr 'Mac' Samples
Swordfish observer in a disastrous attack on the German fleet in 1942

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6044594/Lt-Cdr-Mac-Samples.html

Major-General John Carpenter
Platoon commander whose men were machine-gunned by enemy aircraft during the retreat to Dunkirk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6017583/Major-General-John-Carpenter.html

Major-General Peter Leuchars
Soldier who survived countless brushes with death as his battalion campaigned across Europe after D-Day

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6163825/Major-General-Peter-Leuchars.html

Rear-Admiral Sir David Haslam
Hydrographer of the Navy who gave his name to an underwater mountain off the Seychelles

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6157537/Rear-Admiral-Sir-David-Haslam.html

Wing Commander Jack Coates
Bomber pilot whose aerobatic prowess won over hard-drinking Australians in North Africa

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/6152081/Wing-Commander-Jack-Coates.html

Jack Driver
Para who attacked a German position with grenades and drew point-blank fire

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/6134036/Jack-Driver.html

Captain Sir Edward Archdale, Bt
Submariner whose expert gunner's eye proved deadly to enemy targets both on land and at sea

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/6127836/Captain-Sir-Edward-Archdale-Bt.html

Dina Babbitt
Artist and animator who struck a deal with Josef Mengele to save her and her mother’s lives at Auschwitz

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6826408.ece

ну и просто любопытно

Sergei Mikhalkov
Celebrated poet, playwright and author who was admired by Stalin and wrote the Soviet and Russian national anthems

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6827892.ece

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