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[2Chestnut] Военные некрологи из британских газет

Captain Hamish Pelham-Burn
Fighter pilot and SOE saboteur who flew low-level raids and caused havoc behind enemy lines

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/8464307/Captain-Hamish-Pelham-Burn.html

Dr David Wright
Medic who worked deep behind enemy lines with the Paras in North Africa

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/8459320/Dr-David-Wright.html

Lieutenant-Commander Bill Filer
Decorated wartime diver who defused a new type of enemy torpedo and laid bare its secrets for the Allies

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8457100/Lieutenant-Commander-Bill-Filer.html

Captain Bernard Halsall
Army glider pilot who survived catastrophe in Sicily and at Arnhem, where he was sheltered by locals

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8451689/Captain-Bernard-Halsall.html

Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Gray
Para who served in Northern Ireland and rose close to the Army’s highest rank

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/8444071/Lieutenant-General-Sir-Michael-Gray.html

Major Colin Carr
Royal Engineer who kept cool in Korean minefields even after being blown up

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/8441548/Major-Colin-Carr.html

Captain Stephen Perry
Troop commander who withstood heavy shellfire to take on and disable a Tiger tank in Normandy in 1944

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8435995/Captain-Stephen-Perry.html

Harold Biles
Artificer whose ship returned again and again to Dunkirk during the evacuation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8433130/Harold-Biles.html

Flight Lieutenant Don Nelson
Pathfinder navigator who supported the D-Day landings and won two DFCs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/8430462/Flight-Lieutenant-Don-Nelson.html

Colonel Roger May
Officer awarded an MC after charging a German gun emplacement who captured a man in a compost heap

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8416894/Colonel-Roger-May.html

Lt-Cdr Stuart Jewers
Fleet Air Arm pilot who hunted Tirpitz, fought in the Pacific and chased enemy bombers in North Africa

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8414423/Lt-Cdr-Stuart-Jewers.html

Lt-Col Val ffrench Blake
Soldier awarded a DSO in Italy who later became an authority on dressage

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/8409776/Lt-Col-Val-ffrench-Blake.html

Lt-Cdr Barklie Lakin
Wartime submariner in the Mediterranean whose bravery earned him a DSO and two DSCs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8404844/Lt-Cdr-Barklie-Lakin.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Terry Willett
Pioneering artillery spotter pilot who later became an expert on the criminal aspects of dangerous driving

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8396329/Lieutenant-Colonel-Terry-Willett.html

Group Captain Tom Barrett
Station commander at RAF Northolt who led his squadron into war zones

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/8393882/Group-Captain-Tom-Barrett.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Cooper-Key
Commander who rallied his exhausted men as they advanced in the Netherlands after D-Day

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8388987/Lieutenant-Colonel-Eric-Cooper-Key.html

Colour Sergeant Charlie Bowden
Royal Marine who took part in an extraordinary escape from Crete to North Africa in a landing craft

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8388987/Lieutenant-Colonel-Eric-Cooper-Key.html

Sergeant Bill O'Leary
Tough NCO with Popski’s Private Army who specialised in silent ambushes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8384029/Sergeant-Bill-OLeary.html

Jack Plant
PoW who survived the horrors of the infamous 'Death Railway’ on Sumatra

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/8379382/Jack-Plant.html

Diana Geddes
Brigadier’s daughter who, aged 16, bluffed her way into a nursing job at a front-line hospital in the Far East

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/8377092/Diana-Geddes.html


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