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Рубрики WWII; Современность; Версия для печати

Военные некрологи из британских газет

Alex Lees
Soldier who tended a garden at Stalag Luft III used to conceal the dirt from the tunnels of the Great Escape

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/5292315/Alex-Lees.html

General Valentin Varennikov
Soviet soldier who tried to depose Gorbachev and acclaimed Stalin as 'the greatest Russian of all time’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/5297384/General-Valentin-Varennikov.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Shakespear
Soldier who won an MC while leading his Gurkha companies in a successful attack on the Gothic Line

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/gurkha-obituaries/5314235/Lieutenant-Colonel-Gordon-Shakespear.html

Captain Terrence Herrick
Wartime destroyer captain who joined the admiralty of the fledgeling RNZN

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6268591.ece

Professor Louis Rydill
Designer of Britain's first nuclear-powered submarine and teacher at UCL

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6244096.ece

Lieutenant-General Sir Martin Garrod
Commandant General of the Royal Marines who was later put in charge of rebuilding the peace in the shattered city of Mostar

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6221166.ece

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