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BLAGDEN Brigadier Patrick Martin (Paddy) Blagden CBE 15 March 1935 - 17 December 2020 Royal Ordnnace. Bomb disposal post Gulf War 1 Kuwait. Aden, Cyprus, Falklands Cambodia Afghanisatn Bosnia Croatia Somalia
BOWEN Captain John T G Bowen RN died 10 January 2021
CHASE Major P D E Chase MBE died 13 January 2021. Royal Signals
CROSS James Richard "Jasper" Cross 29 Setember 1921 - 6 January 2021 Royal Engineers Palestine inc terrorist bombing of King David Hotel
EDWARDS Private David Fothergill Edwards 9 April 1925 - 17 November 2020 2nd Bn Monmouthshire Regt. Landed on Sword via Mulberry Harbour 18 June 1944. Shot on both legs by sniper outside Caen. After convalesance returned to battalion in France and Holland.
EVANS Brig Michael Evans died 13 January 2021 aged 87
HINDE major Keith Stevens Gleave Hinde OBE TD dies 23 January 2021 aged 86
HORNE Lt Cdr Edgar Michael Horne died 14 January 2021 aged 83 Helicopter test pilot
KELLY Margaret Kelly Bletchley Park
LANE Col John Lane BEM died 28 Dec 2020 aged 84. Welch Regt, Royal Regt of Wales
MARTIN Gp Capt Keith Martin died 1 January 2021 aged 96
MOORE Captain (hon Col Sir) Thomas (Tom) Moore 30 April 1920 - 2 February 2021ÂÂ Duke of Wllington's Regt, tanks. Arakan, Sumatra Instructor Bovington . Later charity fundraiser
MURRAY-JONES Lt Cdr Paul Johnnie Murray-Jones died 4 Jan 2021 aged 99
RAKE Gp Captain Derek Shannon Vaughan Rake OBE AFC and Bar 26 May 1922 - 11 December 2020 32 Sqn Algiers Spitfires over Italy and Greece. Shot down over Kosovo, parisans smuggled him through enemy lines. 41 Sqn Netherlands Mk XIV Spitfire shot down Arado 234 jet, Junkers 188 on May 3 1945. India. 50 missions against USSR 1958-60 Canberra, Comets CO 51 Sqn CO RAF Wyton
SMITH Lt Col Michael Charles Smith died 6 Jan 2021 aged 82
SPROT Lt Col Aidan Sprot of Hayston MC died 28 January 2021 aged 101 Late Royal Scots Greys
STEPHENSON Joseph "Steve" Stephenson 15th Dec 1922 - 19th Jan 2021 RAF pilot WW2
SUDBOROUGH Air Vice Marshal Nigel John Sudborough CB OBE died 30 January 2021
URQUHART Major (later Sir) Brian Urquhart KCMG MBE 28 February 1919 - 2 January 2021 Intelligence officer. North Africa, Sicily. Planning Op Market Garden. "T" Force seeking German nuclear research. Relieved Bergen-Belsen. Later Foreign Office, United Nations (peacekeeping inc Suez, Congo, Lebanon)
WILSON Flt Lt Russell Leonard Wilson died 28 Dec 2020 aged 73 Pilot 46 Sqn
WITHEROW Air Cdre Marcus Spence Witherow died 1 February 2021 aged 84. RAF Regiment
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