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[2Chestnut] Военные некрологи из британских газет

Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Barclay
Soldier decorated at Arnhem who recorded first-hand the chaos of Operation Market Garden

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/7140326/Lieutenant-Colonel-Bill-Barclay.html

Colonel Mike Osborn
Highly decorated infantry officer who was acquitted of a conviction which nevertheless affected his career

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7012513.ece

Brigadier William Magan
Indian cavalry officer and oldest surviving member of MI5 who masterminded a wartime misinformation network in Tehran

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7011488.ece

Maurice Kinmonth
Doctor imprisoned by the Japanese who became one of Britain's most eminent plastic surgeons

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/7130574/Maurice-Kinmonth.html

Surgeon Vice Admiral Sir James Watt
Sailor who survived the perils of the sea in wartime to become medical director general of the Navy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/7121626/Surgeon-Vice-Admiral-Sir-James-Watt.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Lee Archer
American pilot who fought both the Nazis and racism to become the war's only black fighter 'ace'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/7105227/Lieutenant-Colonel-Lee-Archer.html

Major-General David Toler
Soldier who commanded the Land Forces in Northern Ireland as the Troubles erupted in the late 1960s

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/7085964/Major-General-David-Toler.html

Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Prickett
Bomber pilot whose planning role during the Suez crisis left him scornful of his political masters

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/7079919/Air-Chief-Marshal-Sir-Thomas-Prickett.html

Brigadier Bill Magan
Cavalry officer recruited by MI5 who became one of the leading figures in postwar intelligence

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/7055321/Brigadier-Bill-Magan.html


Lilian Williams
Linguist whose skill at solving the Telegraph crossword helped to equip her as a wartime code-breaker

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/7045719/Lilian-Williams.html

Lieutenant-Commander Michael Langman
Naval airman in the Western Desert who took part in a heroic withdrawal as Rommel’s tanks rolled in

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/7029774/Lieutenant-Commander-Michael-Langman.html

Wing Commander Tom Bussey
Officer on the Royal Flight who manned the front gun during the wartime travels of George VI

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/7020620/Wing-Commander-Tom-Bussey.html

Major George Fletcher
Bomb disposal officer who defused a wartime parachute mine which threatened to blow up whole streets

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/7012609/Major-George-Fletcher.html

Major-General John Cowtan
Sapper awarded two MCs for his daring in the Western Desert and as an escaped PoW with Italian partisans

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7005120.ece

J. D. Salinger: The Times obituary
Author of The Catcher in the Rye, the quintessential novel of teenage alienation, who spent his life hiding from his celebrity

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7007023.ece

Sir Percy Cradock
Ambassador to China whose wisdom and diplomatic skills paved the way for the peaceful handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7010253.ece

Howard Zinn
Egalitarian author of A People’s History of the United States who became an active and unwavering critic of US social policies

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7012509.ece

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