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[2Chestnut] Военные некрологи из британских газет

сегодня начну с некролога человека, всемирно известного своей самой мирной профессией, но с неожиданно топичными эпизодами биографии

Vidal Sassoon

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/9255724/Vidal-Sassoon.html

After the war, outraged that Oswald Mosley’s followers were yelling “Yids out!” in London in the wake of the Holocaust, he joined the 43 group, a Jewish association established to campaign against anti-Semitism. In 1948, aged 20, Sassoon volunteered to fight in the Arab-Israeli war as part of the fledgling Israeli army. Fighting near Gaza, his unit suffered heavy casualties.

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Clive Taylor

Troop commander who captured a village and 150 enemy soldiers in the dying days of the war in Europe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/9268077/Clive-Taylor.html

Admiral Hugo Biermann

Former master mariner who served in wartime minesweepers and became head of South Africa’s Navy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/9265607/Admiral-Hugo-Biermann.html

Gunnar Sonsteby

Norway’s most decorated war hero who, as SOE’s Agent 24, waged a relentless campaign against the Nazis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/9258278/Gunnar-Sonsteby.html

Squadron Leader Jock Maitland

Fighter pilot who took on MiGs over Korea and was detained for 'spying’ during the Suez Crisis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9255128/Squadron-Leader-Jock-Maitland.html

Ian Harris

Jew who fled Nazi Austria to become a decorated British commando in the war
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/9252940/Ian-Harris.html

Col Nick Hales Pakenham Mahon

Guards officer who survived a parachute mishap and being targeted by the IRA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/9250500/Col-Nick-Hales-Pakenham-Mahon.html

Lieutenant-Colonel John McGregor

Officer who won an immediate MC after crossing a minefield under heavy fire to take an enemy position
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/9244113/Lieutenant-Colonel-John-McGregor.html

David Kiely

Engineer whose new policy on procurements reduced the cost of weapons for Britain and Nato
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9237218/David-Kiely.html

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