Michael Farrin
Leading huntsman who rode with the Quorn and was considered a distinctive and iconic exemplar of the Shires tradition.

Michael Cole
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Michael Cole , who has died aged 79, was one of the first scientists to make his mark as an entrepreneur in the years after the Second World War; during his career he survived near-bankruptcy to establish one of the fastest-growing manufacturing businesses in Britain. There was then a huge demand for research into the properties of metals for use in weapons, space exploration and nuclear fuels, but the best research results could be obtained only by working on single crystals, which were unavailable commercially....

He became interested in global warming theories and believed that many of the assumptions around man-made CO2 emissions and climate computer modelling were highly questionable.
UNQUOTE
He was a Jew with brains. Such can do a lot of good. They also do a lot of evil.

Brian Keenan
QUOTE
Brian Keenan, who died on Wednesday aged 66, was a linchpin of the IRA and one of the most ruthless and formidable members of its leadership;..........

........ Instead he seems to have been inspired by a fanatical commitment to revolutionary Marxism, to which he had been converted in the 1960s. He was a formidable political animal – highly intelligent, fluent in at least four languages, and he possessed organisational and technical skills of a high order.

Keenan joined the Provisional IRA in the late 1960s at the start of the "Troubles". By 1971 he had become quartermaster of the so-called Belfast Brigade, and over the next few years he masterminded a campaign of bombings in the province. A factor in his promotion was his fluency in Arabic, which enabled him to attend training camps in the Middle East and to buy arms, explosives and ammunition from terrorist organisations and rogue states worldwide. He made contacts with the PLO, with the Stasi in East Germany and with Colonel Gaddafi's Libya. He arranged the first arms shipment from Libya in 1972.
UNQUOTE
Brains and drive make a lot of difference for better or worse.

 

Larry Levine
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Larry Levine, who died on May 8, his 80th birthday, provided the technical expertise behind Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" recordings in the 1960s; as Spector's principal recording engineer from 1962 to 1966, he contributed to classics such as the Righteous Brothers' You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, the Ronettes' Be My Baby, the Crystals' Da Doo Ron Ron and Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High. Spector and Levine made their records at Gold Star's Studio A in Los Angeles. The studio was low-ceilinged, small (22ft by 32ft) and often had to accommodate as many as 20 musicians at a time, thus giving the producer the ideal acoustic environment for the sound he wished to achieve.
Spector is still living in the shadow of a murder charge, facing a retrial over the shooting of a 40-year-old nightclub hostess in 2003.
UNQUOTE
Larry was the man who made some nice very pieces sound just the way they did. Phil Spector was not merely abrasive he was trigger happy too.

 

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough
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On the outbreak of war he converted to flying boats, and in 1940 he operated with No 240 Squadron from the Shetland Islands. Flying over the northern North Sea he flew in support of the ill-fated British Expeditionary Force to Norway and on searches for German ships seeking to break out from the Baltic........

Promoted to wing commander at the age of 24, he commanded the captured Italian airfield at Mogadishu, Somaliland, where Wellingtons conducted anti-submarine operations. On his return to Britain in May 1944 he became chief instructor at a flying-boat training unit and was mentioned in dispatches.
UNQUOTE
Promotion came fast in those days. So did death. He didn't do really exciting things. So it was promotion instead.

Lieutenant-Colonel Douggie Moir
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Lieutenant-Colonel Douggie Moir, who died on May 6 aged 89, was taken prisoner in 1940 and made a series of escape attempts from German PoW camps, including Colditz............ Later, when he was being moved by cattle-truck to Warburg, he and a brother officer squeezed through a hatch window and jumped clear of the moving train. 
They were at large for several days, but were then given away by a local and returned to Warburg. Moir was soon assisting in the planning for another escape attempt, which involved some 60 officers scaling the perimeter wire with makeshift ladders while fellow prisoners fused the lights and created distractions to confuse the guards.
UNQUOTE
A lively man and a practical man.

 

Robert Vesco
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Robert Vesco, whose death in Cuba at the age of 71 has been confirmed by Cuban burial records, was a swashbuckling Wall Street financier and con man whose escapades included looting millions of dollars from a Swiss mutual fund, drug trafficking, money laundering, making an illegal contribution to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential re-election campaign, attempting to set up his own mini-state in the Caribbean and plotting to bribe US officials to allow Libya to buy American military planes.
UNQUOTE
An interesting life but a bit too exciting for me.

 

Flight Lieutenant Nicky Ross DSO
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Flight Lieutenant  Ross, who has died aged 90, was one of Bomber Command's most experienced heavy bomber pilots; he completed three tours of operations over enemy-occupied northern Europe, flew on Leonard Cheshire's No 617 Squadron and attacked numerous targets with Barnes Wallis's 12,000-lb Tallboy "earthquake" bomb.............
An avid gardener, he also enjoyed tinkering with old Jaguars and he had a passion for Scotch. A kind, generous and extremely modest man, he once described his time in the RAF as "the best six years of my life".
UNQUOTE
Some were lucky. A lot were not.

 

Major David Liddell MC
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On December 23 1943 Liddell was in command of a company detached as reinforcements to 5th Battalion the Essex Regiment which was ordered to capture the village of Villa Grande, near Termoli on the Adriatic coast of Italy. Patrols had reported that the position was held in strength by the formidable German 1st Parachute Division.

Liddell's company attacked at first light. His men gained a foothold in the village, but the platoons became separated by 100 yards of bullet-swept ground. The leading platoon had suffered severe casualties, and when Liddell came up with reinforcements they were pinned down by heavy machine-gun fire.

Liddell charged the machine-gun post single-handed, knocked it out with hand grenades and enabled his men to continue the advance. During the engagement his batman was killed beside him and he himself was wounded in the eye. He continued, nevertheless, until he had linked up with the isolated platoon.
UNQUOTE
He had a lively war and a brother who got a VC.

 

Diana Barnato Walker
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Diana Barnato Walker, who died on April 28 aged 90 , occupied an almost legendary position in the world of aviation: as well as being one of a handful of “Atagirls”, women who served during the war as ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) pilots delivering newly-built and battle-ready aircraft to airfields all over southern England, in 1963 she became the first woman in the world to break the sound barrier.

The diminutive socialite granddaughter of a South African diamond millionaire, before the war Diana Barnato was well known in London for her high spirits and for late nights spent at the Embassy or 400 Club in London. She was also known for the Bentley which she was given for her 21st birthday - a gift from her doting father, the motor-racing champion Woolf “Babe” Barnato.....................

On another occasion, “skimming happily along in a Spitfire”, she suddenly found herself in thick cloud, “but I couldn’t bale out! My skirt would have ridden up with the parachute straps and anyone who happened to be below would have seen my knickers!” Instead, to the astonishment of those on the ground, she managed to nurse her aircraft down, breaking through the cloud at tree-top height and banking sharply to avoid a patch of woodland, to make a perfect landing in heavy rain on the tiny grass airstrip of what turned out to be the Navigation and Blind Flying Establishment at RAF Windrush............

One evening in 1963 in the mess at RAF Middleton St George, the Wing Commander Flying, John Severgne, idly suggested that Diana might like to fly one of the RAF’s new supersonic Lightnings. She jumped at the chance and on August 26 1963, following clearance from the Ministry of Defence, she took off and reached a speed of Mach 1.65 (1,262 mph), making her the first woman to break the sound barrier.
UNQUOTE
She really did live. Being a Master of Fox Hounds is rather special in this foul year of Our Lord. She was the granddaughter of a very successful Jewish crook until he came unstuck.

 

Philipp Von Boeselager
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Philipp Von Boeselager, who died on Thursday aged 90, was the last surviving conspirator in two failed attempts to assassinate Hitler during the Second World War, including the July 20 plot for which most of his co-conspirators were executed.  Boeselager was one of eight Wehrmacht officers who planned to shoot Hitler and the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, on a visit to the eastern front in March 1943, but the plot was called off in Himmler's absence.........

Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg and other officers involved in the plot were rounded up and shot the same day, while others, including thousands of their relatives, were tortured and executed; but Boeselager, who had obtained the explosives, escaped detection.
UNQUOTE
A pity that he didn't succeed. We have plenty of politicians equally worthy of deposing. They know it too. That is why their security is so heavy.

 

Deborah Palfrey - Suicide Or Murder?      
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Deborah Palfrey, who has died aged 52, was known as "the DC madam"; for more than a decade she ran a call-girl ring in Washington DC which was alleged to attract clients from the heart of the American establishment. The girls she employed at "Pamela Martin & Associates" were required to be university-educated, well-mannered and capable of holding an intelligent conversation about current affairs.............. Deborah Palfrey was found hanged at her mother's house at Tarpon Springs, Florida, on Thursday. 
UNQUOTE
Suicide is a way out and rather  a pity. Releasing her list of clients should have been the master stroke but the establishment closed ranks. They didn't hesitate when it came to dropping Eliot in it even though he is a Jew. Murder is a political tool and a very effective one. Dead men tell no tales as Vince Foster will not tell you ever since he got sorted out by the CIA/FBI/Mossad. See Eliot Spitzer Was Screwed  for the context.

 

Mark Wyndham MC
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Mark Wyndham, who died on April 15 aged 86, won a Military Cross in the desert and later worked in industry for his cousin, the novelist Henry Yorke, before becoming a notably successful chairman of the Children's Society and a founder of the 999 Club, a charity at Deptford............

When war came he joined up, and was commissioned in the 12th Royal Lancers............... In March of that year, while on patrol, he was wounded; and throughout this period he performed reconnaissance movements that, in the words of a senior officer, showed "the utmost dash and gallantry", taking his vehicle as close to the enemy as possible, even though out gunned and suffering from inferior British armour.

On June 7 1942, when Wyndham's squadron was providing reconnaissance for the 22nd Armoured Brigade near the Rigguel ridge, he noticed an enemy concentration south of the ridge, almost entirely hidden. Spotted by the Germans, Wyndham found himself under heavy shell-fire for some 45 minutes, during which time he managed to gain information about the size of the enemy force and the exact location of its batteries.............
UNQUOTE
A lot of men had interesting times then and showed that they not just anybody.

 

Wg Cdr Paddy Barthropp DFC
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Wing Commander Paddy Barthropp, who died on April 16 aged 87, was one of the RAF's most ebullient and colourful characters; he fought in the Battle of Britain, escaped twice from prisoner-of-war camps and later became a test pilot and a winning jockey in Hong Kong............

Throughout that summer he was constantly in action, and was credited with destroying two enemy fighters, probably destroying two others and damaging two more. On numerous occasions his Spitfire returned damaged by anti-aircraft fire. In August 1941, after completing 150 operations, he was awarded a DFC and sent to a fighter training unit as an instructor.
UNQUOTE
Another good one gone.

 

Bruce Wyllie
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Bruce "Titch" Wyllie, who has died aged 85, was a rear-gunner ("tail-end Charlie") in Lancasters with 57 Squadron of Bomber Command, whose very first operation was the famous Dresden Raid. It was not until half a century had passed that Wyllie could be prevailed upon to speak of his wartime past. When finally he did, he recalled a number of harrowing, terrifying but ultimately hugely rewarding experiences........

His other sport of the 1930s, shooting, taught him the concepts of swinging through a target and firing slightly ahead of it to allow for the speed of the moving lead. Unbeknownst to him at the time, these were soon to prove invaluable...........

With the appallingly high casualty rate suffered by Bomber Command, Wyllie considered the whole of the rest of his life to be an unexpected bonus, and he enjoyed it to the full.
UNQUOTE
Some were lucky. A lot weren't.

 

Sydney Dowse MC, the Great Escaper
QUOTE
Sydney Dowse, who died on Thursday aged 89, was one of the principal constructors of the tunnel used in the Great Escape; he was among those who got away, and was at large for 14 days before being recaptured and sent to the "death camp" at Sachsenhausen, where he dug another tunnel to gain a few more days of freedom.

Dowse had been in captivity for just over a year when he arrived in May 1942 at Hermann Goering's "escape-proof" camp, Stalag Luft III, at Sagan. He made two unsuccessful attempts before further efforts by the prisoners were put on to a more formal footing by the formation of an escape committee under the chairmanship of Roger Bushell, known as "Big X"..............

Although Dowse spent most of his time underground, he also befriended a German corporal who worked in the censor's office at the camp headquarters. Through this contact he obtained numerous authentic documents, which were passed to the escape committee for copying, and much valuable military intelligence. He even managed to persuade the corporal to provide him with a tailored suit, which he subsequently wore for his escape.
UNQUOTE
A first class man. A pity that we don't have men like him running England rather than the traitors and communists that have wormed their way in.

 

Sergeant Dougie Wright MM
QUOTE
Sergeant Dougie Wright, who has died aged 88, earned a Military Medal and a legendary reputation as a fighting soldier with Lord Jellicoe's 1st Special Boat Squadron in the Greek islands. In April 1944 he distinguished himself in a close-quarter attack on an enemy post on Ios, which resulted in no SBS losses but five enemy casualties. He was also involved in two dramatic attacks on a radio station on Amorgos. In the first he found himself under the command of Anders Lassen, a Dane (later to win a posthumous VC) who hated Germans and usually killed them; but on this occasion Lassen did a deal with a captured wireless operator by which he took the man's dog as well as the station's code books, while Wright took the German's Greek mistress. 
UNQUOTE
The worst thing about the British Army is the snobbery that gives VCs to officers and lesser medals to the men who do the fighting. What a useful man to have on your side.

 

Bill Curling
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Bill Curling, who died on April 1 aged 96, was "Hotspur", the racing correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, from 1946 to 1965 and wrote half a dozen books about racing; before the Second World War, during which he served in destroyers, he was from 1936 to 1939 the racing correspondent of the Yorkshire Post.

Bryan William Richard Curling was born on November 15 1911 at Bitterne, near Southampton, the elder son of Captain Bryan Curling, who won a DSO during the Great War and retired in the rank of brigadier-general. In later life Bill would recall how as a small boy he rode his father's polo ponies when they were out in Egypt.................

In younger days he played squash; later, he stuck to shooting, stalking, fishing and sailing from his holiday cottage at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. He was a member of the Bembridge Sailing Club for more than 50 years.
UNQUOTE
Eton, destroyers, racing and shooting; a good life.

 

Charlton Heston
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Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor known for his larger-than-life movie roles, has died at the age of 84. In a career spanning 60 years, Heston lavished the world with a seemingly inexhaustible roster of resolute screen heroes, from Michelangelo to Moses, El Cid to Judah Ben-Hur..............

To his detractors, Heston could be an inflexible, monolithic presence, weighed down by his own mantle of heroism and pious sense of virtue. Others took a more charitable view. [ The Grauniad has a very fair share of supercilious,  left wing, homosexual scum - Editor ]  Assessing the actor's cultural impact, the critic Pauline Kael hailed him as "a god-like hero; built for strength, he is an archetype of what makes Americans win. He represents American power - and he has the profile of an eagle."........

It could be argued that Heston gave his last great performances at these NRA rallies. Brandishing a rifle on the stage, the actor would strike a pose reminiscent of the one he held while parting the Red Sea as Moses, and then challenge critics to pry the gun "from my cold, dead hands".
UNQUOTE
Charlton served for real; he flew from England as a gunner during the war years but the Graun doesn't see fit to mention that. They don't like honest men.

Charlton Heston II
A rather better obit albeit with a left wing sneer or two thrown in.

 

Pedro Zaragoza
QUOTE
Pedro Zaragoza,......... is credited with turning Benidorm into a destination for mass-tourism..................... In 1953 - on the principle that "you couldn't stop it" - Zaragoza authorised the wearing of bikinis at Benidorm. No one in the country had attempted this, and there was uproar. As members of the Civil Guard scuffled with scantily-clad girls on Benidorm's beaches, the local archbishop threatened to excommunicate Zaragoza, who decided to appeal directly to Franco.
UNQUOTE
Pushing for the bikini was the master stoke. Today they even go topless in Marbella.

 

Major-General Sir Desmond Langley
Career soldier who later became Governor of Bermuda and hosted Anglo-American summits for two British prime ministers. Did he ever hear a shot fired in anger? He definitely had a lot of fun.

 

Bhanubhakta Gurung, VC
QUOTE
Havildar [ Sergeant ] Bhanubhakta Gurung, who has died aged 86, was awarded a VC when serving as a rifleman in the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma on March 5 1945.........

Bhanubhakta's citation..... recorded that: "On approaching the objective, one of the sections of the company was forced to the ground by a very heavy light-machine-gun, grenade and mortar fire, and owing to the severity of this fire was unable to move in any direction.

"While thus pinned down, the section also came under accurate fire from a sniper in a tree some 75 yards to the south. As this sniper was inflicting casualties on the section, Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung stood up and, while fully exposed to heavy fire, calmly killed the enemy sniper with his rifle, thus saving his section from suffering further casualties."......

Without waiting for any orders, Bhanubhakta dashed forward alone and attacked the first enemy foxhole. Throwing two grenades, which killed the two occupants of the trench, he immediately rushed on to the next enemy foxhole and killed the two Japanese in it with his bayonet.

All this time he was under continuous light-machine-gun fire from a bunker on the north tip of the objective, and two further fox-holes were still bringing fire to bear upon the section. Bhanubhakta dashed forward and cleared these trenches with bayonet and grenades.

He then turned his attention to the machine-gun bunker, and realising, as the citation put it, that it "would hold up not only his own platoon which was not behind him, but also another platoon which was advancing from the west", he pushed forward a fifth time to knock out the position.

"He ran forward and leapt on to the roof of the bunker from where, his hand grenades being finished, he flung two No 72 smoke grenades into the bunker's slit." Two Japanese rushed out of the bunker, partially blinded by the smoke and with their clothes aflame with phosphorous; Bhanubhakta promptly killed them both with his kukri.

One Japanese soldier remained inside, holding up 4 Platoon's advance with the machine gun. Bhanubhakta crawled in and, prevented by the cramped space from using his bayonet or kukri, beat the gunner's brains out with a rock.
UNQUOTE
Do we deserve men like that? With a grossly corrupt government like ours? No, but still they come. Still they serve.

 

Pearl Cornioley - SOE
QUOTE
Pearl Cornioley outfoxed the Nazis by - among other tricks - concealing secret messages in the hem of her skirt and helping airmen escape to safety, according to records unsealed at Britain's National Archives on Monday...........

The records shed light on a woman who quickly adapted to life as an agent but never forgot about her family in Britain, requesting in handwritten notes that officials in London send her mother and sisters timely birthday and Christmas presents.

She escaped France ahead of the Nazi invasion and returned to Britain via Spain. Upon returning to Britain, she worked briefly at the Air Ministry in London but used her French to gain a slot as a Special Operations Executive agent - one of about 40 women to serve. The Air Ministry became part of the Ministry of Defence in the 1960s while the Special Operations Executive evolved into the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. [ Written by an ignoramus - Editor ]..........

She parachuted into France initially posing as a cosmetics saleswoman to deliver coded messages to members of the French Resistance. Following the capture of her leader, she assumed control of the cell in the north Indre department of the Loire River valley, about 55 miles (90 kilometres) south east of the Normandy beaches.

She interrupted the Paris-Bordeaux railway line more than 800 times and attacked convoys in June 1944, the same month of the D-Day invasion. All told, she led 3,000 French Resistance fighters in a host of guerrilla warfare missions. 
UNQUOTE
She did well.

Pearl Cornioley II
QUOTE
Pearl Cornioley, who died on February 23 aged 93, was a wartime agent in France with the Special Operations Executive (SOE)...... Pearl Witherington joined the WAAF, but became increasingly frustrated by her pen-pushing post at the Air Ministry, and presented herself at the SOE headquarters in Baker Street, London, demanding a job.

She was taken on, and embarked on seven weeks' training in armed, and unarmed, combat and sabotage - "Having been in the Girl Guides proved very helpful," she recalled. "We learned to use explosives and did a lot of firearms training. I was quite a good shot."........

In the event of capture - as with all the SOE agents operating in France - her instructions were to remain silent under interrogation for at least 48 hours, in order that her comrades should have the opportunity to escape.
UNQUOTE
Women do things too from time to time.

 

Air Commodore Kit North-Lewis DSO DFC
Commodore Kit North-Lewis, who has died aged 90, led his squadrons of rocket-firing Typhoon fighters in the fierce fighting during the Normandy campaign and the advance through Holland to Germany......... On August 7 a major German counter-attack, spearheaded by five Panzer divisions, was identified moving against just two US infantry divisions. The Panzers had already captured three important villages and were threatening to cut off the US Third Army near Mortain as it began moving into Brittany. A shuttle service of Typhoons was established, and by the end of the day they had flown more than 300 sorties, three of them led by Lewis.
UNQUOTE
He did well.

 

Captain Robert Franks DSO
QUOTE
Captain Robert Franks, who has died aged 95, was an officer in destroyers and also fought a vicious, little-known river war in Burma....... 

Drifting upstream on the tide on a moonless night, he saw several large, camouflaged craft. He whispered "Action Stations" and closed to about 80 yards range, surprising and destroying an enemy convoy. He returned with what he thought were the first Japanese prisoners on this front.

On March 7 Franks again moved upstream, this time to establish himself permanently in the Mayu river. His force endured continuous artillery fire ("new and very unpleasant to us sailors"), and during the day hid from aircraft in the shelter of chaungs [jungle covered inlets]. At night, however, it was able to dominate the river and, after several fierce night-time battles, managed to halt the Japanese river traffic.
UNQUOTE
He really did do things.

 

Neil Aspinall, 'the fifth Beatle', dies aged 66
QUOTE
Neil Aspinall, who has died aged 66, was the Beatles' original road manager and went on to run the group's business empire for 40 years; he became their chief confidant and, although not the only contender for the title of the fifth Beatle, perhaps deserved the accolade more than most.

For some 20 years following the break-up of the group in 1970, Aspinall applied his astute business acumen to fighting lawsuits on their behalf and unravelling the tangled skein of their financial affairs. His flair for figures helped to transform them into the wealthiest entertainers in the world, with a estimated combined fortune of £2 billion.
UNQUOTE
Epstein robbed them blind I thought but I am glad that some one played straight with them.

 

Lazare Ponticelli - The Last Of The First
QUOTE
The last French foot-soldier of the first world war chose to go uncelebrated.
The approach of the death of Lazare Ponticelli therefore caused something of a panic in France. This derdesders, “the last of the last”, was for a while the only man in the country who remembered the first world war because he had fought in it. The suburb of Kremlin-Bicetre, where he lived, had like most other communities in France a memorial to the war dead. But, more important, it had Mr Ponticelli, who up to his 111th year appeared every November 11th in his flat cap and brown coat, lean and bright-eyed, gamely managing the few steps required to lay his small bunch of carnations there. The most astonished and serious observers were always children, to whom—if they wanted—he would tell his stories...........

It was as important to him as it was to them to underscore the horror and futility of it. More than anything, he was appalled that he had been made to fire on people he didn't know and to whom he, too, was a stranger. These were fathers of children. He had no quarrel with them. C'est complètement idiot la guerre. His Italian Alpine regiment had once stopped firing for three weeks on the Austrians, whose language many of them spoke; they had swapped loaves of bread for tobacco and taken pictures of each other. To the end of his life, Mr Ponticelli showed no interest in labelling anyone his enemy. He said he did not understand why on earth he, or they, had been fighting.
UNQUOTE
He was a man of the Légion étrangère. The Telegraph didn't bother to write him up. A parochial lot

 

Tim Denny DFC
QUOTE
Tim Denny, who died on February 24 aged 87, was a wartime air observer who rescued a gunner from a burning bomber and was awarded the DFC and Bar; he later forged an international reputation as the leading expert on lavender and the distillation of essential oils. 

At the Bridstowe estate in Tasmania, a lavender plantation founded by his father in the 1920s, Denny propagated new more productive strains, developed improved husbandry techniques, designed and built the world's first lavender-harvesting machine and designed steam distillery equipment which improved both the quality and yield of lavender oil and the productivity of the stills...............

His proudest claim, however, was to have designed the "Yak Pack", a portable still that could be carried up a mountain by a yak for essential oil production in remote regions of Bhutan.
UNQUOTE
Flyer, engineer, innovative farmer; he was versatile. A man should be versatile.

Frederick Seitz
QUOTE
Eminent physicist who stood accused in later life of selling out to commerce.
UNQUOTE
A first class man. When accusations are made it is always worth asking who is feeding us the dirt and why. A lot of men in the science racket are place men with nothing original about their work.

John Prott MM
QUOTE
Gunner John Prott, who died on February 22 aged 88, was awarded two Military Medals for unusual courage and unfailing presence of mind during the fighting in north-west Europe............

On July 19 1944 Prott was driving a tank serving as an artillery observation post for 3rd Royal Tank Regiment at the village of Bras, on a ridge south of Caen, when his commander was shot in the face by a sniper and the tank caught fire. Although still under small arms attack, Prott tried to douse the flames before helping down the officer and two other wounded. He then climbed back up to rescue another crew member, only to be hurled to the ground when the turret exploded............

When billeted in a country house before the invasion he and a comrade found a comfortable sleeping place beside a large fireplace. But its warmth attracted so many others that the two tossed a bulging sandbag on to the fire, saying "There, boys, that'll give you heat", and then watched the room being rapidly vacated as two dozen thunder flashes went off. 
UNQUOTE
Private soldiers don't get the recognition in the British Army that they deserve and they would in New Zealand or Oz. They deserve better officers too. Then there is the matter of politicians and treason.

Lord Pym MC
QUOTE
The Lord Pym, who died yesterday aged 86, was a classic casualty of the shift in Conservative Party attitudes from paternalism to laissez-faire liberalism. In a Commons career spanning more than a quarter of a century, Francis Pym served with distinction under four prime ministers, making his name in the Whips’ office. But it was under the fourth of those leaders, Margaret Thatcher, whom he served as Defence Secretary, Leader of the House and Foreign Secretary, that he made his greatest impact;..........

He was educated at Eton and Magdelene College, Cambridge. In 1942 he was commissioned into the 9th Lancers, joining his regiment in North Africa just before El Alamein, in which he took part as a troop leader. He was appointed adjutant just before the fall of Tunis in March 1943, and landed in Italy that September; he served as adjutant until the end of the war and did not miss a single day’s action. He was twice mentioned in dispatches, and in 1945 was awarded an MC.
UNQUOTE
One of the better Tories, I think. Too many of them are men on the make.

Squadron Leader Charles Patterson DSO DFC
QUOTE
Squadron Leader Charles Patterson, who has died aged 88, took part in many daylight low-level bombing raids, including three of the most audacious of the war, exploits which earned him a DSO and a DFC........ his air officer commanding, Air Vice Marshal Basil Embry, selected him to fly a Mosquito specially modified to carry a cine camera in the nose of the aircraft. It was his task to follow the bomber force and to arrive over the target five minutes later to film their results as he dropped his own bombs. Flying at very low level in broad daylight was always hazardous, but Patterson ran the additional risk of being shot down by the German flak batteries that had been alerted by the 20 or 30 bombers just ahead of him.

He was a fine horseman, and hunted with more than 40 packs in England and Ireland......... A cultured, articulate and patriotic man who was fiercely loyal to his country and to his friends,..........
UNQUOTE
A first class man who never married; a waste.

 

Paul Raymond
QUOTE
"The King of Porn", as Raymond was dubbed, was an avuncular figure who claimed that he was an honest entertainer. But some argued that his prurient productions and publications whetted the public's appetite for darker material, and that Britain's moral decline began in 1958, when Raymond circumvented the laws prohibiting striptease by opening a private club, the Revuebar, his flagship and life-long base. The club could be joined on the door, and within two years it had more than 45,000 members. Its neon sign - the first in Britain to offer STRIPTEASE - became a Soho landmark.
UNQUOTE
He cheered people up and gave Puritans something to moan about.

Brigadier John Prendergast DSO MC
QUOTE
Brigadier John Prendergast, who has died aged 97, won a DSO and two MCs in an adventurous military career which spanned more than 30 years. In May 1937 Prendergast was serving with the Tochi Scouts in North Waziristan. They were leading an advance on the village of Gariom with the objective of blowing up two of the towers as a punishment for harbouring the wily Fakir of Ipi when they came under heavy fire from rebel tribesmen............
UNQUOTE
His service reads like a roll call of forgotten regiments. Interesting times and better too in some ways.

Anthony Blond
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Anthony Blond, who has died aged 79, was a gentleman [ believe that if you want - Editor ] publisher from an age when business was conducted in dusty garrets and promising authors were given small retainers to allow them to find their muse.

Charismatic, daring and outrageous, Blond collected talents as diverse as Harold Robbins and Jean Genet, Spike Milligan and Graham Greene. He was the first to spot the potential of Jennifer Paterson (of the Two Fat Ladies), and was an early director of Private Eye, of whose bank account he was a guarantor.

Of the 70 or so writers to whom Blond gave their first chance, he became most closely associated with Simon Raven [ well worth a look - Ed. ] , whose books he published throughout his literary career............

As well as publishing, Blond also became involved in the founding of Piccadilly Radio and stood unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Chester at the 1964 general election. A member of the National Council for Civil Liberties, he opposed censorship of any sort.
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An interesting man but it was well to keep your back to the wall round him.

Lieutenant-General Dan Shomron
Architect of the raid on Entebbe in 1976 and later Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces
Lieutenant-General Dan Shomron, who died on Tuesday aged 70, was a leading figure in the Israeli Defence Forces of which he eventually became Chief of Staff; as the commander in charge of Israel's paratroopers and infantry, he planned and led the daring military operation at Entebbe, Uganda, to rescue 105 hijacked hostages in 1976. On June 27 1976 Air France Flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris, carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12, was hijacked by two armed gunmen from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two Germans from an organisation called the "Revolutionary Cells".
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Competent - Who Dares Wins. Surprise is a useful weapon

Sir David Orr MC
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David Orr, who died on February 2 aged 85, was chairman of Unilever, Inchcape, the British Council and the Globe Theatre Trust; as a young engineer officer in Burma during the Second World War he was awarded a Military Cross and Bar.....

In mid-April they reached the village of Kanhla, south of Yamethin, where a bridge over a deep chaung, or gully, had been demolished and was covered by enemy fire. The chaung made an effective anti-tank obstacle and the advance was halted. Lt Orr went forward in a bridge-laying tank and supervised the installation of a scissors assault bridge across the 30ft gap under heavy rifle and mortar fire; it was laid straight and evenly, although it was impossible for anyone to direct the operation from outside, enabling the fighting tanks to cross quickly.
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A man of parts; he did things before, after and during.

Squadron Leader 'Hawkeye' Lee DFC
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Squadron Leader "Hawkeye" Lee, who has died aged 92, was a Hurricane pilot sent to France on the day the Germans invaded France in May 1940; during the month that followed, as his squadron fought against much superior odds, he shot down five enemy aircraft before being forced to bale out of his own. Lee's squadron, No 501 (County of Gloucester), was on standby to reinforce Norway when it was rushed to an airfield near Rheims on May 10, the day the Germans started their Blitzkrieg. In the first three days Lee accounted for three enemy bombers as the German army advance continued. The squadron flew three or four patrols a day but was forced to retreat to Le Mans, where it gave cover as the British and French forces were evacuated from Dunkirk. During this period Lee shot down two more bombers as they attacked the "little ships".

On June 10 he attacked a formation of Heinkels, but exhausted his ammunition without any apparent effect. As he turned away, his Hurricane blew up and he baled out, hitting the tailplane of his aircraft. He was injured in the hand and leg, and 10 days later was put on a boat for England from St Malo. He was mentioned in dispatches.
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Would men try as hard today with a corrupt government behind them?

Lieutenant-Colonel Ken Scott MC
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Lieutenant-Colonel Ken Scott, who has died aged 89, was awarded the first of his two MCs for his part in an SOE operation to sabotage the Asopos viaduct in Greece in 1943...........

The approaches were heavily wired and mined, and guarded by about 50 men equipped with searchlights and machine guns. The destruction of the viaduct, however, became a priority with the military planners, since it would cut the railway supply line through Greece to Rommel's army in North Africa for several months.

By moonlight the four men carried the charges to the bottom of the ladder. While their comrades kept guard, Scott and McIntyre climbed to the top platform and hauled up the explosives. They could hear the Germans patrolling above their heads for the whole of the hour and a half that it took to fix and connect the charges to the main girders.
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The SOE did well sometimes.

Major Frank Courtney MC
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Major Frank Courtney, who has died aged 91, won an MC and Bar during the Second World War, then stayed on in India after independence to become a symbol of the Raj at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club. Courtney refused to learn Hindi, continued to correct Parsees' English and never said Mumbai for Bombay. But he joined the club only in 1953, when it became the last in the country to admit Indians, and he expected no deference - though he once struck a fellow member who had insulted his wife.

He earned his first MC as a forward transport officer in an attack on the Vichy French at Mouaddmiye, Syria, on June 18 1941. As the Fusiliers came under heavy fire, Courtney gathered the vehicles together, appointed relief drivers and by personal example inspired the continuation of the advance. When the remains of the column were subjected to further small arms and tank fire later that morning, he aided its temporary commander in restoring a confused and difficult situation.

He did much to restore the self-esteem of the expatriate community by rescuing the UK Citizens' Association from decline, setting the Bombay Ex-Servicemen's League on a sound footing and serving as a trustee of the Breach Candy hospital. He was appointed OBE in 1980. Frank Courtney's wife predeceased him. He kept a home in Britain, but Bombay remained his chief residence. He rented a flat for 27 rupees (£3.20) a month, and retained a cook-bearer to minister to his needs. 
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He was there when it mattered, unlike the shysters and con men who constitute Her Majesty's Government.

Jack Lyons
Jack Lyons, who has died aged 92, would have been remembered chiefly as a great patron of the arts were it not for his involvement in the Guinness scandal [ Rather like Adolf's involvement in the Second World War - Editor ]. This resulted in his being convicted of theft and false accounting, reproached by the trial judge for "dishonesty on a major scale" and stripped of his knighthood by the Queen.
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Lyons was a Jew and a thief; one of the Guinness Four. Three and a half of whom were Jews. All four were thieves.

Badri Patarkatsishvili - Jew And Thief On The Run
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Badri Patarkatsishvili, the Georgian [ sic ] billionaire who was found dead at his Surrey mansion on Tuesday night aged 52, a month after running unsuccessfully for the Georgian presidency, was one of the "oligarchs" who made a fortune from the privatisation of state-owned industries during the Yeltsin era and eventually found a haven in Britain,..........

In June 2001 Patarkatsishvili was charged in his absence with attempting to organise the escape of Berezovsky's associate Nikolai Glushkov from prison. In October 2002 he was charged with fraud in connection with a subsidiary of Avtovaz.

At first he was welcomed in Georgia. He was courted by the country's president Eduard Shevardnadze, who repeatedly rejected Russian calls for his extradition, and by the then opposition leader Mikheil [ sic ] Saakashvili......

Patarkatsishvili's relations with Saakashvili deteriorated, by his account due to the coverage given by Imedi to opposition parties, though allies of Saakashvili suggested that the real reason was that Patarkatsishvili found himself blocked in his efforts to gain total control of Georgia's economic and business life.
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A man with 120 body guards who thought he wanted more has upset  people who matter. The Telegraph draws a light hand over his guilt. He colluded with Berezovky, another Jewish crook.

Ian Michie
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Ian Michie, who has died aged 79, was an investment banker and field sportsman, and the brother of James, the classical poet, and of Donald, the distinguished scientist in the field of artificial intelligence and a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, both of whom predeceased him last year....

Educated at Marlborough, where he was captain of house and a school prefect, Ian Michie was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles) after passing out equal second from the officer cadet training unit at Eaton Hall...... Field sports - particularly stalking, shooting and fishing - played a large and significant part in his life, accompanied by a love of golf and skiing. His semi-autobiographical book on these subjects, Passions Shared, was well received by his many friends.
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Brains and brawn make a good combination.

Major-General Ronnie Buckland
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Major-General Ronnie Buckland, who has died aged 87, had a varied career which took him to many of the world's trouble spots. As an officer of the Household Division, Buckland had a most unusual career in that he never served at the MoD, HQ London District or at his regimental HQ; his time in the Army was largely spent as an officer at the "sharp end" or with field formations....... Having accompanied his battalion to Normandy in July 1944, he was seriously wounded in its first operation and was out of action for six months.

He spent nearly 14 years abroad, serving in most of the trouble spots: Palestine, Tripolitania, Malaya, Egypt, Cyprus and British Guiana. He ended his career with five years at Salisbury as Chief of Staff Army Strategic Command and Major-General in charge of Administration, HQ UK Land Forces.
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Join the Army and see the world; meet interesting people and kill them.

Joshua Lederberg - Jew And Nobel Prize Man
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Joshua Lederberg, who died on February 2 aged 82, shared the 1958 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Edward Tatum and George Beadle) for establishing that bacteria engage in sex, a discovery that laid the foundations for modern genetics and biotechnology.

When Lederberg began his researches after the Second World War, bacteria were thought to reproduce by cell division, producing clones identical to the parent organisms. But the discovery by Oswald Avery that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, was the material that encoded the genetic information for life, inspired him to test that hypothesis..........
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Brains are the reason why we are not swinging in trees.

Anthony Sumption DSC
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Anthony Sumption, who died on January 8 aged 88, served in submarines during the Second World War before embarking on a successful career as a lawyer and in the City.

Sumption had an extremely good brain, and as a lawyer he used it to address the complexities of the taxation system, developing various strategies - then perfectly legal - which earned many of his clients in the City large fortunes. In the process he, too, prospered.
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Doing things in submarines would have been interesting. Beating the tax system is still perfectly legal although more difficult. The details are different of course.

 

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Indian guru to the Beatles who built a business empire based on transcendental meditation
Indian guru to the Beatles who built a business empire based on transcendental meditation. It sounds as though he might even have believed his own tosh.

George Habash 
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George Habash, the Palestinian guerrilla leader who died in Jordan on January 26 aged 80, earned an entry in the grim annals of Middle Eastern politics as one of those responsible for introducing the world to international terrorism. As chief of the Marxist-leaning Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the second largest group within the PLO after Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, Habash "pioneered" the use of airliner hijackings to call attention to the cause of his people.
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The Telegraph makes him sound like a rebel without a cause. He was up against the world's most dangerous murderers and political manipulators, the Zionist Jews who stole Palestine and showed us that Adolf could be outdone.

Charles Elwell
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Charles Elwell, who died on January 11 aged 88, was the MI5 officer responsible in 1961 for breaking the Portland spy ring, run by the KGB officer Konon Molody (Gordon Lonsdale), which passed naval secrets to the Russians. A year later Elwell had similar success with John Vassall, the KGB spy at the Admiralty who was blackmailed into passing secrets after taking part in a homosexual orgy in Moscow..........

But in March 1942, having successfully disembarked two SOE agents in Holland, Elwell and his Dutch companion were unable to launch their dinghy through the surf and he was taken prisoner.

An attempt to escape resulted in his being sent to Colditz...........
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He lived in interesting times. 

 

Squadron Leader 'Jimmy' James
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Squadron Leader "Jimmy" James, who died on January 18 aged 92, was an inveterate escaper during his five years in captivity during the Second World War. James: the refusal to accept incarceration, he said, it was 'our contribution to the war effort'

James was one of the few to escape execution after the Great Escape, and joined two others at the notorious death camp at Sachsenhausen, from where he made another daring escape by tunnel, only to be recaptured 10 days later. He had already made a number of unsuccessful escape attempts by the time he arrived at Stalag Luft III, near Sagan, in the spring of 1943. Plans were being made to dig three tunnels, and he was soon recruited to the organisation and appointed to the security team.
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A great escaper and on the Great Escape.

Group Captain Dudley Honor DFC
Group Captain Dudley Honor, who has died aged 94, flew during the Battle of France and as a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain before going to the Middle East; shot down in the latter stages of the German invasion of Crete, he spent six days in the mountains before reaching the coast where he was picked up by an RAF flying boat.....
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Nine kills is respectable. He pranged a few as well so he was lucky.

Bobby Fischer, Chess Champion And Jew
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Chess legend Bobby Fischer has died. Despite having a Jewish mother, Fischer was famous for his vitriolic antisemitism..........
In sporadic interviews on Philippine radio during the past five years, Fischer has used almost every question to launch into another diatribe about the global Jewish conspiracy directed against him and the need for an extermination of all Jews. The f——-g Jews want to destroy everything I’ve worked for all my life,” Fischer said during a January 1999 interview with Baguio City’s Bombo Radyo. “There was no Holocaust. The Jews are liars. It’s time we took off the kid gloves with these parasites.”..........
Fischer has developed a straightforward narrative of a Jewish world conspiracy, [ So have a lot of other people - It is just a matter of looking at the evidence - Editor ]
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He had the brain. Jews often do. The evil goes with it all too often.

Issy Smith VC
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Smith was born in Alexandria, the son of French citizens Moses and Eva Shmeilowitz, who were of Polish origin. His father was employed by the French Consulate-General as a clerk. Aged 11, Smith embarked as a stowaway aboard a vessel proceeding to London. Undaunted by this unfamiliar environment, Smith attended Berner Street School, Commercial Street, and worked as a deliverer in the East End, then an impoverished ghetto where Yiddish was the predominant spoken language. Persecution and extreme deprivation had compelled millions of Eastern European Jews to migrate to Western Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere. By the time of Issy Smith's arrival, Jewish immigration to Britain had peaked and was further curtailed by the enactment of the Aliens Act in 1905.
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Why were they being hassled? Depend on a Jew not to tell the truth about why he is hated. To be fair, this one served well.

Rear-Admiral Joe Bartosik
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..........was the only Pole to reach Flag rank in the Royal Navy, earning a reputation in the process as a latter-day Captain Bligh........... As second gunnery officer in the 35-knot destroyer Blyskawica, he was credited with shooting down two Luftwaffe aircraft during the Norwegian campaign. In May and June 1940 he took part in Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of the beaches at Dunkirk. Later Blyskawica, one of the few ships that could keep up with the liner, escorted the Queen Mary.
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An interesting life. There was not much to go back to in Poland after the war. Poles are prone to be a pain even when they are not in positions of authority.



Philip Agee
Former CIA operative who exposed more than 2,000 western agents around the world. Given the CIA' s track record of evil which includes decades of torturing people and major narcotic trading it is difficult to argue that his treason was misdirected.

Sir Edmund Hillary
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Sir Edmund Hillary, who died late yesterday aged 88, made his name as the first conqueror (with Norgay Tenzing) of Everest; just as impressive, though, was the use he made of his renown over the remainder of his life. On the one hand there were feats of exploration - to the Antarctic and South Pole from 1956 to 1958; in other parts of the Everest region in the early 1960s (including a search for the Abominable Snowman, or yeti). In 1968 he drove jet boats up the violent rapids of Nepalese rivers; in 1977 he took them up the Ganges................
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He cheered us up at time when it mattered. A decent man as well.

George MacDonald Fraser
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George MacDonald Fraser, who died on Wednesday aged 82, revived in a long-running series of novels the career of one of fiction’s most infamous characters, Flashman. the fag-roasting bully of Tom Brown' Schooldays, Thomas Hughes’s 1857 tribute to Dr Arnold’s Rugby, was last seen being expelled for drunkenness. Age had not improved him. Fraser’s appropriation in 1969, Flashman, joyously confirmed him as a thoroughgoing rotter and cad of the first water.................
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Our best writer has left us; a pity. He made the middle brow writing industry look like the pretentious third raters that they are. He will be missed.

John Groves
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John Groves, who died on Boxing Day aged 85, was a journalist-turned-civil servant and headed the Government Information Service in the early Thatcher years, having earlier served as director-general of the Central Office of Information.....he decided to serve in the Army and joined the Queen's Royal Regiment. In 1943 he was commissioned in the newly-formed Reconnaissance Regiment (formerly the 5th Gloucesters).

The regiment sailed for France in June 1944, but Groves's ship was sunk by an acoustic mine off the Normandy beaches; there was heavy loss of life. Groves was one of the volunteers who returned to the sinking ship to bring ashore the vehicles from the forward holds...... Groves fought with the regiment throughout the subsequent campaign in Belgium, Holland and Germany and was mentioned in dispatches. Later he was promoted to the rank of captain and spent the summer of 1946 as a War Office observer officer in Berlin.
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He sounds like a good man.

 

Lt-Cdr 'Fuzz' Fyson DSC
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Lieutenant-Commander 'Fuzz' Fyson,...was involved in covert operations during the Second World War; after leaving the Navy he became a successful craftsman in wood.

From early 1944 to May 1945 Fyson was based on Corsica and in Italy commanding the secret and elite No 2 Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP). He reconnoitred the coast of Elba before its liberation by Free French forces and later moved to Bari, where he led covert operations in the Aegean and Adriatic. Then, in March and April 1945, he took part in Operation Roast, the assault by 2 Commando Brigade on the Spit, a narrow stretch of low-lying land about 600 yards wide between the sea and the shallow, brackish waters of Lake Comacchio, which was strongly defended by the Germans..................
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He did things. Training twenty apprentices after was worthwhile; an investment in the future.

Professor John Strugnell
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Professor John Strugnell, who has died aged 77, was a prominent Biblical scholar, and was editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls project until he was sacked for making what were construed as anti-Semitic remarks to an Israeli newspaper......

In the course of an interview in November 1990 - during which he drank beer but did not, according to his interrogator, seem to be drunk - Strugnell was quoted as describing Judaism as "a horrible religion. It's a Christian heresy, and we deal with our heretics in different ways".
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The Jews had a problem with him; they couldn't abuse his ignorance as they do with us. He knew too much but a claim of anti-Semitism did the trick. It just means hatred of Jews. They never bother to tell us how they cause it.

Flight Lieutenant Mick Shand
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Flight Lieutenant Mick Shand, who died on Thursday aged 92, was a fighter pilot interned at Stalag Luft III at Sagan and survived "the Great Escape" - the last to emerge from the tunnel before it was discovered, he was recaptured after four days on the run. Shand and his fellow New Zealander Squadron Leader Len Trent, VC, planned to "hard arse" it on foot to Czechoslovakia in the hope of getting to Switzerland. They had no great expectation of reaching England, and felt it would be impossible to make it across the frozen countryside undetected - but they felt they "had to do something"........

The RAF was desperately short of fighter pilots, and Shand was rushed through training. After just 20 hours' flying [ 40 hours are the minimum for a basic licence in these decadent times - Editor ] on the Spitfire, during which time he never fired its guns, he was posted to No 54 Squadron.
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Men fought for something and then found themselves betrayed by corrupt politicians like Blair and Bush.

Benazir Bhutto
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Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan who was assassinated in a suicide bombing in Rawalpindi yesterday aged 54, restored democracy to her country in 1988 after 11 years of military dictatorship. Her glamorous good looks and fluent English led to a sustained love affair with Western politicians and journalists, many of whom had known her at either Harvard or Oxford. For those with the standard Western prejudices against the Islamic world, she had the added assets of a pronounceable name and a tolerant religious outlook.

In Pakistan she was often far less popular than her foreign press made out. To her opponents she was more English than Pakistani, more Western than Eastern. Her Urdu, although fluent, was ungrammatical, while her Sindhi, her family's mother tongue, was almost non-existent.
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Corrupt, vicious, couldn't speak her own language properly. No wonder the main stream media told us that she was wonderful. Pakistanis aren't fool enough to believe them. The world is better without her.

Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones VC
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Colonel attended Eton College. He joined the British Army on leaving school and was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. By 1982 had reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel, During the Falklands War he was in command of 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment when the deed described below took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Command of 2 Para passed to Major Chris Keeble, and Jones was buried at Ajax Bay on May 30, near where he fell. After the war his body was exhumed and buried at the Blue Beach War Cemetery in Port San Carlos on October 25
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He commanded in the first land battle of the Falklands War so the result mattered. 2 PARA won against much greater forces albeit Chris Keeble took 2 PARA onto victory rather than Colonel Jones.

Simon Raven
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Promiscuous chronicler of upper-class life
The death of Simon Raven, at the age of 73 after suffering a stroke, is proof that the devil looks after his own. He ought, by rights, to have died of shame at 30, or of drink at 50.

Instead, he survived to produce 25 novels, including Alms For Oblivion (1959-76), a 10-volume saga of English upper-class life, numerous screenplays, eight volumes of essays and memoirs, including Shadows On The Grass (1981) - "the filthiest book on cricket ever written," according to EW Swanton - and The First Born Of Egypt sequence (1984-92), which contains requests such as "Darling mummy, please may I be circumcised?" and "Please, sir, may I bugger you, sir?"
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He was a first rate writer but never a gentleman. Any sneers from the Grauniad's supercilious poofters should be treated with contempt.

Wing Commander 'Dal' Russel DSO DFC
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Wing Commander "Dal" Russel, who has died aged 89, was a highly decorated wartime Canadian fighter pilot whose log book recorded kills in the Battle of Britain and the Normandy invasion; he later led attacks on enemy rail and road transport as the Allies entered Germany and Holland.... Russel arrived in England in June 1940 with No 1 (RCAF) Squadron, the first Canadian unit to see action. Flying Hurricanes, it was declared operational in mid-August, and within 10 days Russel shared in the destruction of a Dornier bomber over Gravesend. ...

His squadrons destroyed more than 700 transport targets and tank concentrations; and on October 4 one of his pilots shot down a Messerschmitt 262 fighter, the first jet to be downed by a fighter..... In retirement he enjoyed salmon fishing but, although invited to hunt by friends, he never liked shooting after the war.
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He did well. Going off shooting after having done the real thing is understandable.




John Hereford
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John Hereford, who has died aged 82, was a German brought up in the Jewish faith; during the Second World War he completed a full tour in bombers over Germany as a wireless operator disrupting the Luftwaffe's night fighter operations by jamming their control frequencies.
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There weren't many Jews who served far less got up the sharp end. He was one of the few and did a tour of thirty operations. Nor many made it. He was big in the hotel trade after.



Professor John Hudson GM
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Professor Hudson, who died on December 6 aged 97, held a Chair in Horticultural Science at the University of Bristol and was director of Long Ashton Research Station; during his wartime career he was one of Britain's foremost experts in bomb disposal and won two George Medals. On the night of January 17/18 1943 the Germans dropped on London the first bombs containing a new type of anti-handling fuse, designed to go off when the device was moved.
UNQUOTE
A man should be versatile. Being lucky helps too. It is that or dead so fast you don't even notice.

James Lamond MP
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Although an unrepentant Stalinist, Lamond saw no contradiction in accepting the Lord Lieutenancy of Aberdeen. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union he had been active in many Communist front organisations and vice-president of one of the most notorious, the World Peace Council. Nothing deterred him from taking a favourable view of the Soviet Union, and he justified its invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 as a natural response to American "imperialism" in that country..... Lamond - and he was far from being the only Labour MP to take this view - once declared that the Communist Morning Star was essential "for sensible discussion inside the British Labour movement".
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It takes all sorts to make a world. He did the right things for his constituents though.

Brigadier Rupert Harding-Newman
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Brigadier Harding-Newman was probably the last survivor of a handful of Englishmen whose professions had taken them to the Middle East between the First and Second World Wars and whose experience of desert travel and exploration led to the formation of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG).... In the spring of 1931 Harding-Newman drove an Austin Seven overland back to England to attend a course at Bovington and, the following year, accompanied Major (later Brigadier) Ralph Bagnold on a long trip to northern Chad. He was the group's mechanic and sometimes did the cooking as well. Using sun compasses, they learned how to navigate vast expanses of often featureless desert and mastered the art of driving vehicles over huge sand dunes without overturning or getting stuck. Bagnold's aim was to create small, independent units of extraordinary mobility and endurance which would pose an apparent threat to the enemy out of all proportion to the reality. After the outbreak of the Second World War when, supported by General Wavell, Bagnold formed the LRDG, Harding-Newman was serving with the military mission to the Egyptian Army and was not permitted to join him.
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Another good man gone.


Evel Knievel
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Evel Knievel, the American motorcycle stunt rider who has died aged 69, combined a considerable talent for self-promotion with a hazardous capacity for bravery; among the several world records he held was that for the most bones broken by one person (433), and he is said to have spent the equivalent of three years in hospital.............. In September 1974, he attempted to jump the mile-wide canyon of the Snake River, Idaho, on a rocket-powered motorcycle. Once airborne, he seemed to lack the necessary momentum to reach his target, but the matter was settled when his emergency parachute opened prematurely and he floated 600 feet back down to earth.........

Thereafter Knievel worked briefly as an insurance salesman. He sold 271 policies in a single week, but left his employers when they did not immediately offer him a seat on the board. Then he embarked on a successful career as a safe cracker, working mainly in Oregon. He also had spells as a bank robber, swindler and pickpocket. After several narrow escapes from the law, he decided to go straight and settled at Moses Lake, Washington, where he worked as a car dealer. Prospective customers could obtain a discount of $100 if they defeated him at arm wrestling........... Then, in 1977, Knievel was convicted of assaulting his former agent, Sheldon Saltman. Knievel had objected to Saltman's book Evel Knievel on Tour, which portrayed the stunt man as an alcoholic addicted to painkillers; moreover, it alleged that Knievel did not love his mother. Knievel severely chastised Saltman with a baseball bat and was ordered to pay him £6.8 million in damages. He was also sentenced to six months in prison.
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An interesting life. Courage has its uses but I wouldn't want a son to follow him.

 

Colonel David Owen DSO
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In 1944, as a major and 2nd-in-command of the regiment during the long slog up Italy, he had the task of reconnoitering under shell and mortar fire forward areas which were often heavily mined. Because of the mines, the casualty rate amongst 2i/cs was very high, but Owen took no notice of the danger and always volunteered for the most dangerous operations.
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At least with explosives it tends to be quick.

Sir Peter Laurence MC
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Sir Peter Laurence was a diplomat in Berlin in 1968 when his nephew spotted a two-page picture story in a children's comic recounting how he won the MC in Italy during the Second World War. The boy, who was home from Marlborough, told his parents - who then informed Laurence of this unusual piece of publicity in The Victor. In the first frame Lieutenant Laurence of the 11th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, was shown wondering whether the enemy was occupying an isolated house, known as "The Apostle", near Ponte in December 1943. Then, in broad daylight, he and a Corporal Angus crept up close, to find themselves under fire from a hole in the wall. "You spray the windows while I pop a visiting card through the hole," Laurence was shown saying, before he threw in a grenade and Angus fired his tommy gun up at the first-floor window.
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It is nice to know that the Foreign Office is not all pinko poofters. They tried to get rid of the Falklands for us. It must have been the oil and fish that the Argies wanted.

 

Patricia Clarke
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Life in Cairo was not all partying, however, and it was not long before Patricia Russell was seriously engaged in the war, working in the Cairo military interrogation centre. This was to be the start of her intelligence work, about which she would never speak, that took her from Egypt to Italy.
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She got about in a big way and was probably very useful.

 

Captain Roger Villar
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Captain Roger Villar , who has died aged 85, claimed three enemy submarines as anti-submarine control officer of the destroyer Active. She was patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar in April 1943 when a surfaced submarine appeared out of a rain squall. Active opened fire, and the U-boat dived.... the "kill" was not confirmed until after the war.

On May 23 1943 Active and the frigate Ness sank the Italian submarine Leonardo Da Vinci north-east of the Azores after it unwisely signalled its intention to head for Bordeaux..... The Italian vessel was sunk with no survivors....

He was navigator of the destroyer Bleasdale at the Dieppe raid, and then commanded two landing craft which ferried ashore American troops west of Algiers during Operation Torch.........
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He got about.

André Bettencourt
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André Bettencourt, who died on November 19 aged 88, served as a cabinet minister in French governments of the 1960s and 1970s and won medals for bravery for his service in the Resistance;..... In his youth Bettencourt had been a member of La Cagoule, a violent Fascist group bankrolled by Eugène Schueller, founder of the cosmetics giant L'Oréal..... After the German invasion, they swore allegiance to Hitler, sent men to support the German forces fighting in Russia...........
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Misguided and sincere is perhaps the best you can say. Being a friend of François Mitterrand is something to hide. Before you sneer too much be grateful that we never had to decide which side to join.

Captain John Gower
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Captain John Gower, who has died aged 95, had a distinguished war in destroyers....

Having located it, he towed it to safety despite coming under air attack. In April he took part in Operation Tungsten, the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz, which was hiding in the fjords.

On D-Day Gower was bombarding targets on Sword beach when he saw a torpedo bouncing on the surface at the end of its run; it went on to hit the Norwegian destroyer Svenner, which became the first Allied ship to be sunk on the morning of June 6.
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Join the Navy and see the world.

Ian Smith
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Ian Smith,.. was the Prime Minister of Rhodesia and an ardent advocate of white rule; in 1965 he unilaterally declared independence from Britain, and over the next 15 turbulent years fought an increasingly bitter war against African nationalist guerrillas, a war that cost between 30,000 and 40,000, mainly black, lives - but it was a struggle he eventually lost, paving the way for the country's independence as Zimbabwe.

'Sir' Roy Welensky [ a Jew from Poland unlike Slovo, a Jew from Lithuania who subverted South Africa. Editor ] once remarked that "dealing with Smith is like trying to nail jelly to a wall. Make no mistake: Smith is a ruddy ruthless man."
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The Telegraph writes for the right but it is a propaganda machine none the less. Read the hate and compare it with their coverage of Mugabe, the black racist thief who is destroying the country.

Ian Smith - Man whose folly unleashed Mugabe
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The stooping old man with a shock of white hair lived in a modest house where the front gate always stood open and virtually anyone who walked up the drive would be invited in for tea...... Smith earned his place in history by leading the first revolt against Britain by white settlers since America’s declaration of independence in 1776...... He was convinced that only a handful of western-educated and Communist-sponsored Africans genuinely wanted independence. The great majority of blacks were, he decided, happy under benevolent white rule. [ They KNOW they were better off with Sir Ian but the BBC won't be telling you that - Editor ]

Smith feared that Britain would eventually transfer Rhodesia to black majority rule and abandon the 230,000 white settlers.
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Believe that if you want. It was written by another Blair. Rhodesia was subverted by followers of Antonio Gramsci, the chief theoretician of the communist party. One was Roy Welensky, a Jew from Poland. More were Jews from Lithuania like Joe Slovo. Getting Mugabe into power was the pay off for them. The Telegraph was owned by a thieving Jew. He is gone but they haven't cleaned up their act. I will not be paying money to read their left wing propaganda again.

 

Leo Marks
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LEO MARKS, who has died aged 80, was the chief cryptographer of Special Operations Executive during the Second World War; later he wrote the script for Peeping Tom, the film which destroyed the career of its director Michael Powell...... While still in his early twenties he revolutionised the construction and security of SOE's cyphers. And by his re-invention of the "one-time pad" he eventually influenced code systems used by secret services the world over....

n his memoir Between Silk and Cyanide (1998) Marks drew a vivid and often angry portrait of an organisation capable of both brilliance and lethal carelessness. It was also one in which Marks, as a quick-witted Jew, often felt an outsider.
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Brilliance shines out. His most famous code poem is rather special:-
The Life That I Have
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.

Colonel Peter Ormrod MC
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Colonel Ormrod won an MC at the Battle of the Imjin River.
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A Master of Otter Hounds which is a rare distinction in this foul Year of Our Lord.

Major-General Harry Grimshaw DSO
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Major-General Grimshaw won a DSO in Burma and saw repeated front-line service in a career which ranged from the North West Frontier of India in 1932 to the EOKA operation in Cyprus in 1956...... the brigade was flown to Dimapur on the northern front and held the Japanese at Kohima. During the siege, Grimshaw took command of 1st Battalion 1 Punjab Regiment (1/1PR) and they played a notable part in the fighting and in the pursuit of the Japanese 33rd Division in monsoon weather through the wild country to the Chindwin river.....

He was the last British soldier to leave Port Said after handing over to the UN Force Commander. He was awarded a CBE for his part in the operation.
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There aren't many North West Frontier men left. He might even have been the last.

 

Roy Wallace
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Roy Wallace, who has died aged 80, developed stereophonic sound recording for the Decca company and designed the famous “Decca tree” microphone array which became the standard way across the industry of recording orchestral and operatic sound.
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Engineers don't normally get remembered but stereo was a good first.

Barbara Dainton
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Barbara Dainton, who has died aged 96, was the last but one British survivor of the Titanic disaster; as Barbara West, and at just 10 months old,........ but her father, Arthur West, aged 36, drowned along with some 1,520 other passengers and crew when the "unsinkable" White Star liner RMS Titanic, bound for New York on her maiden voyage, struck an iceberg shortly before midnight on April 14 1912.
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Some talk. Some don't. She didn't.

The Right Reverend Graham Chadwick
Bishop deported from South Africa for opposing apartheid who continued his ministry in Wales and Liverpool. This little piece does not tell us what he thought of the damage that he did by getting rid of halfway decent government.

Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet DSO DSC
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Hezlet then took temporary command of Unique, the sole survivor of three submarines sent to patrol the shallow waters off Tunisia which attacked a convoy bound for North Africa. He sank the 11,400-ton troopship Esperia, but was counter-attacked and, not knowing that Unique was leaking fuel from an external tank which gave away his position, he was bombed repeatedly by an Italian flying boat.......
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A good submariner makes a lot of difference.

Sir Oliver Chesterton MC
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After demobilisation Oliver returned to Chesterton & Co and became senior partner — a post he held for 35 years, during which the firm consolidated its position in the upper strata of the London property scene, expanding beyond its traditional residential portfolio into the commercial sector and the City.
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A good war to miss. London had to be better.

Captain Denis Jermain DSC
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It was while commanding a motor torpedo boat.... that Jermain devised a technique for sinking surface ships using depth charges....... Two months later his MTB was the only survivor of a flotilla which ran into a convoy off the Scheldt. Jermain's torpedo-firing mechanism failed but, selecting the largest target, he made a depth-charge attack while his gunners fired upwards at anyone who put his head over the merchant ship's gunwales........ his carefully placed depth charges exploded amidships, sinking the 6,000-ton vessel.
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He had plenty of excitement.

Lord Michael Fitzalan Howard MC
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In August 1944 both young men were tank officers at Caumont, aiding the breakout from Caen in Normandy...... Looking back on a campaign that covered 1,500 miles and cost 956 killed and 545 missing, Adair wrote: "Special mention must be made of the two brigade majors – the Fitzalan Howard brothers."
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He had a lively war and uncles who didn't get back from the previous one.

Rosenberg's Soviet spy overseer dies
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MOSCOW (AP) Alexander Feklisov, the Soviet-era spy chief who oversaw the espionage work of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and helped mediate the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, has died, a Russian official said Friday....

Born March 9, 1914, in Moscow to a railroad signalman's family, Feklisov was trained as a radio technician and was recruited into the American department of the KGB's predecessor, the NKVD, according to his official biography posted on the Foreign Intelligence Service's Web site.....

Years later, he published an autobiography "The Man Behind the Rosenbergs" in which he described his work guiding the intelligence-gathering work of the couple. The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 after being convicted of supplying the Soviet Union with top-secret information on U.S. efforts to develop the atomic bomb....

He was later dispatched to London, where he made contact with Klaus Fuchs, the German-born scientist who worked at the U.S. atom bomb project as well as at Britain's Harwell nuclear research laboratory....... In 1950, Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years for disclosing nuclear secrets.
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He was definitely one of theirs and trusted too. His spies were not lucky though.

Brigadier General Paul Tibbets
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Brigadier-General Paul Tibbets, who died on Thursday aged 92, commanded the USAAF bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6 1945....... The bomb to be used was codenamed "Little Boy".....

The detonation occurred at an altitude of 1,900ft with a power of 13 to 16 kilotons (estimates vary). Tibbets considered it to be a normal bombing operation until he turned to see the effect, which he described as "unbelievable". It was estimated that 70,000 died in the blast, but many more died over the following days from radiation.

Tibbets was often in demand to comment on his wartime experiences. He had no regrets, regarding the dropping of the bomb as necessary, and he would say: "Why be bashful? That's what it took to the end the war."
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I had one friend with a one way ticket to Japan who was ever grateful.

 

Victor Grayevsky
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The 26,000-word speech, delivered on February 25 1956, denounced Stalin's regime of terror. Grayevsky had been able to obtain a copy [ of Khrushchev's speech ] with the help of his lover, Lucia Baranowski, wife of Poland's deputy prime minister....... Lucia allowed Grayevsky to remove the booklet for a couple of hours, and he took it to the Israeli embassy in Warsaw, where it was photocopied.

For many years after coming to Israel Grayevsky also worked as a double agent, posing as a Soviet spy but in fact serving the Israelis by feeding disinformation to Soviet intelligence officers. His Soviet handlers in Israel were KGB officers working under diplomatic cover or posing as clergy from the so-called Russian Orthodox Red Church in Israel.
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Treachery is a very Jewish thing. So is cunning. He was a fornicator too. Albeit he did one job as a freebie.

 

Michael Spurway
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Dashing officer in both the RAF and the Colonial Service with a wide range of business interests.
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Air Vice-Marshal Peter Howard
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Air Vice-Marshal Peter Howard,....... was one of a small group of RAF doctors specialising in aviation medicine with the task of testing and analysing human tolerance of flight......On March 13 1962 Howard fired himself from the rear seat of a modified Meteor jet fighter. The aircraft was flying at 250ft, at 290mph. The rocket pack strapped to the seat generated 3,600lbs of thrust over less than a fifth of a second, giving a peak force of 16G (16 times the pull of gravity), propelling the seat from the aircraft at a velocity of 80ft per second.
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Ejecting is not a lot of fun. The alternative is worse.

Arthur Kornberg
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Arthur Kornberg, who died on Friday aged 89, was the first person to synthesise DNA in a test tube, in 1967; eight years earlier, he had, with Severo Ochoa, won the Nobel prize for medicine for his insights into the mechanism of DNA.
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His son got a Nobel too and a real one at that. Not bad for the son of a Jewish(?) tailor.

Christopher Seton-Watson MC
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Christopher Seton-Watson, who has died aged 89, was an authority on Italian politics of the 19th and early 20th centuries; he also won an MC and Bar in the Second World War.......

The citation for the Bar to his MC pays tribute to the part he played in beating off two counter-attacks near Perugia, and states that at Castiglione, near Arezzo, when a 75mm shell landed beside him in a slit trench that he was using as an OP and failed to explode, he calmly continued to send fire orders to his guns.......

As a talent scout for the security services, however, he sometimes became irascible when his recommendations were not followed; on one occasion he threatened to "send them his Burgesses and Macleans" instead of the prodigies he usually put forward.
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He got about and had brains too.

Lim Goh Tong
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Lim was one of a number of hard-driving Malay-Chinese entrepreneurs who made colossal fortunes as their country developed and prospered..... he had the idea of developing a mountain resort closer to the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
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Enterprise and hard work can pay off.

 

RB Kitaj
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RB Kitaj, who died on Sunday aged 74, was an American painter domiciled for 40 years in England.........he raised the stature of English painting to one of international significance.... Kitaj's affection for England was sorely tested in 1994, when there was a major Tate Gallery retrospective of his work. The verdict of the critics in the British press was savage, and Kitaj was deeply distressed.
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Any one who takes modern art seriously should be treated with suspicion. Art dealers are different. They are trading on the gullible.

Sammy Duddy
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Sammy Duddy, who died on October 17 aged 62, had a rather unusual curriculum vitae for a member of the Loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in having been a drag artiste who went by the stage name of Samantha.
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It seems that he didn't murder Pat Finucane or get involved in the Kincora Job. Adams would say the same no doubt.

 

Paul Raven
Bass guitarist with post-punk band Killing Joke who found a place in the group after the Apocalypse failed to materialise. He flaked out at 46 so maybe the name paid off.

Squadron Leader Harry Scott
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Squadron Leader Harry Scott, who has died aged 89, started his RAF career as a teenage aircraft apprentice and, after training as an air observer, became one of a small group of specialist navigators who pioneered the use of the blind-bombing aid "Oboe" with the Pathfinder Force.

Scott had already survived two tours on bomber operations when, in October 1942, he joined the newly-formed No 109 Squadron equipped with the fast and high-flying Mosquito. Oboe was a ground-controlled, blind-bombing system developed by the Telecommunications Research Establishment and based on the German Knickebein beam bombing system......
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Being the navigator is not so glamorous but it is just as important.

General Sir Richard Trant
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General Sir Richard Trant, who has died aged 79, played an important role in the direction of the Falklands campaign as Land Deputy to the Commander of the South Atlantic Task Force.
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And that was about it. Did he ever hear a shot fired in anger? It doesn't say.

John Kent
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Varoomshka was a comic strip Candide for the 1970s, a wide-eyed, lissom innocent abroad, who defined the second coming of Harold Wilson and the dog-eared hypo