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We mark the passing of those who served this country in the Armed Forces. Contributions from/comments by comrades and families welcome. See next page
BAILLIE Maj the Hon Peter Charles Baillie died 15th March 2017 aged 89
BARNES Major Dr Thomas W Barnes TD died 24th March 2017
BERGIUS Adam Kennedy Bergius RN DSC 25 March 1925 - 3 March 2017
Op Sabre 30 July 1945 to cut Japanese undersea cables for midget submarine. Later navigator HMS Spearhead
BISHOP Gp Capt John Howard died 19 March 2017 aged 88
BOND Maj General Mark Bond died 27th March 2017 aged 94
COLES Major Adrian Harcourt Coles MBE TD 17 May 1930 - 23 March 2017
REME National Service. RAOC regular, Sgt Major parachutist. Commissioned. Cyprus
COOGAN Andrew Coogan BEM 1 April 1917 - 20 March 2017
Lancashire Yeomanry Slim River, Ayer Hitman Malaya retreat. Captured Singapore. PoW copper mine Taiwan. Saw aftermath Nagasaki atom bomb
EASTEN Col Donald Friswell Easten MC 15 July 1918 - 28 February 2017
Royal West Kents. 14th Army. Arakan, company commander held up Japanese advance at Kohima April 1944, advance through Burma
HIGGINS Lt Cdr Robert T (Trapper) Higgins died 20th February 2017. Submariner, mountaineer
KINVIG Maj Gen Clifford Arthur Kinvig Royal Army Education Corps 22nd November 1934 - 22nd February 2017 historian, Director of Army Education
LATHAM Air Vice Marshal Peter Anthony Latham AFC, CB 18 June 1925 - 4 December 2016 Berlin airlift 1948. Later i/c Black Arrows, AOC 11 Group
MASON Cdr FA Tony Mason MBE RNR died 21st February 2017 aged 84
MILMINE (later Rt Rev) Douglas Milmine RAF CBE 3 May 1921- 28 February 2017
No 8 Group Bomber Command. Pathfinder. Halifax shot down over Essen July 1943. Stalag Luft III. Long march Jan 45. Escaped to US Army.
MOUNDE Col Michael Burke MBE (RE) died 2nd March 2017 aged 76
MURRAY Lt Col David John Skelton Murray 14 September 1921 - 8 January 2017 Battle of Kohima 1944 (!st Bn Camerons) Recapture of Burma MiD. Japan
MURRAY Major Michael Graeme Murray died 24th March 2017 aged 93
NEILSON Lt Col Ian Ian Godfrey Neilson DFC 4 December 1918 - 20 January 2017
Army Air Corps pilot Sword beach D-Day 55 sorties in Austers June-July 1944 as Air Observation Post "spotting" for naval gunfire. Led War Crimes investigations units
PARSONS Lt Col Terence Godfrey Parsons RA died 15th February 2017 aged 83
PENLEY Dr William Henry Penley CB, CBE 22 March 1917 - 27 January 2017
Telecommunications Research Establishment (later Royal radar Establishment) helped bring Chain Home and Chain Home Low ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ early warning systems into operation in time for Battle of Britain. Later headed development of Thunderbird, Bloodhound, Rapier SAMs. Scientific head of civil service
PRICE Lt Col Thomas George Price RAMC died 1st March 2017
TURNER Major John Charles Turner died 27th February 2017 aged 90 Royal Artillery
WEBB Cdr Jeffrey Francis Webb OBE died 25th March 2017 aged 92
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