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	Дата	08.10.2008 18:04:54
	Рубрики	WWII; Современность;

Военные некрологи в британских газетах: последний из экипажа "Худа"

Ted Briggs
One of only three out of 1,421 to survive when battle cruiser Hood sunk by the Bismarck in the Atlantic in May 1941.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3140770/Ted-Briggs.html

The Reverend Leslie Hardman
Army chaplain who witnessed the horrors of Belsen when the concentration camp was liberated in 1945.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3155068/The-Reverend-Leslie-Hardman.html

Rear-Admiral Michael Kyrle Pope
Wartime submariner whose exploits as a PoW were a constant irritant to his captors.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3125663/Rear-Admiral-Michael-Kyrle-Pope.html

Colonel William Gerard Leigh
Career soldier with the Life Guards who fought throughout the war and later left his mark on the sport of polo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3118034/Colonel-William-Gerard-Leigh.html

John Fancy
Captured RAF navigator whose 16 escape attempts earned him the nickname 'the mole'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3131228/John-Fancy.html

Colonel Don Blakeslee
Fighter pilot who proved one of the finest American combat leaders of the Second World War .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3088505/Colonel-Don-Blakeslee.html

Malcolm Muir
Test pilot for de Havilland and Rolls-Royce who notched up time in 84 different aircraft and had two narrow escapes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3081834/Malcolm-Muir.html

а также
Boris Yefimov, Stalin's cartoonist
Boris Yefimov, who died yesterday aged 108, was the Russia' s leading political cartoonist of the 20th century and one of the last surviving witnesses to the birth of the Soviet Union.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3118013/Boris-Yefimov.html

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