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Re: [2Chestnut] [2Chestnut] Военные некрологи из британских газет

Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Carew
SOE officer who parachuted into Burma with a 55-year-old guidebook and a kilo of opium.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4928761/Lieutenant-Colonel-Tom-Carew.html

Sir Michael Quinlan
Civil servant who made the case for nuclear deterrence and explored the idea of the Just War
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4904017/Sir-Michael-Quinlan.html

Flight Lieutenant Gil Graham
RAF gunner whose victims included an enemy transport aircraft the size of 'a block of flats'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4944813/Flight-Lieutenant-Gil-Graham.html

General Sir Peter Leng
Soldier whose ideas for combating terrorism in Northern Ireland proved both original and effective
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4939314/General-Sir-Peter-Leng.html

Roger Lees
Officer in the Indian Police who employed his skill as a caricaturist to defuse a potential riot
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4950205/Roger-Lees.html

Surgeon Vice-Admiral Ian Jenkins
Governor of Windsor Castle where, as the Queen's right-hand man, he led the annual Garter procession
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4944779/Surgeon-Vice-Admiral-Ian-Jenkins.html

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