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Recording, with thanks for their service to this nation, the passing of former military personnel (see next page) Additional information from families welcome.
AUSTIN Derek Stanley Austin 14 June 1925 - 6 May 2013
49 Squadron, Lancaster pilot
BENTLEY Captain Robert Bentley MC 20 December 1922 - 3 March 2013
8th Army in North Africa and member of SOE during the Italian campaign in 1945
BURCH Major General Keith Burch CB, CBE 31 May 1931 - 27 March 2013
Korea, Aden ACDS (Personnel and Logistics)
DARELL Brigadier Sir Jeffrey Darell Bt MC 2 October 1919 - 27 February 2013
Cleared a road during 1945 Battle of the Rhineland and took 120 prisoners. Previously had been wartime close protection of Royal Family
FALCONER Surgeon Cdr Alan Scott Falconer died 2nd May 2013 aged 91
JOHNSTON Cdr David Riley Johnston OBE, DSC died 11th May 2013 aged 91
MILES Captain Eric Charles "Mickey" Miles OBE died 18th May 2013 aged 89
MILLER Major David Miller died 24th May 2013 aged 83MORGAN-GILES Rear Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles
Latterly an MP
SATOW Lt Cdr Paul Satow MBE 23 September 1921 - 2 February 2013
Winessed sinking of HMS Prince of wales (from destroyer HMS Express); escorted convoy on D Day; post war mine sweeping flotilla in home waters
SHEPHERD Dr H R (Oobs) Shepherd DSC died 29th April 2013 aged 94
STOKES Lt Cdr James Barratt Stokes RN died 20 May 2013 aged 87
WAGGITT William Cl;ement Waggitt RNVR died 14 May 2013 aged 98
WATERMAN Lt Cdr Jack Waterman RNVR died 18th May 2013
WESTBY Major David Francis Westby Royal Engineers dioed 30th April 2013
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Guardian- Taliban suicide attackers kill scores of Afghan soldiers in KandaharTaliban suicide bombers have killed at least 43 Afghan soldiers by ramming two stolen Humvees strapped with explosives into an army base, using a tactic increasingly feared by government forces. The attack on Wednesday night on an outpost in Kandahar’s Maiwand district left only two soldiers of a 60-strong unit unharmed, according to the defence ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri. Nine soldiers were injured and six are still missing, he said.
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KP- New deadly clashes erupt among Taliban and ISIS in NangarharNew wave deadly clashes have erupted among the Taliban and ISIS militants in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. According to the local government officials, both the Taliban and ISIS militants have suffered casualties during the latest clashes.
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rferl- U.S. Drone Strike Kills Pakistan Militant Leader In Afghanistan, Group SaysA militant leader blamed for several deadly bombings in Pakistan has been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the extremist group has confirmed. Asad Mansoor, a spokesman for the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) militant group, on October 19 told the Reuters news agency by telephone that the leader, Omar Khalid Khorasani, died earlier in the day.
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NYTimes- Afghan Army Unit Nearly Wiped Out as New Taliban Tactic Takes TollAn Afghan Army unit in the south of the country was almost completely wiped out on Thursday, defense officials said, in a Taliban attack that used what is becoming one of the group’s deadliest tactics: packing vehicles captured from security forces with explosives and driving them into military and police compounds.
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Trend- 2 Americans dead in Afghanistan 'green-on-blue' attack [awaiting confirmation -ed]Two Americans were killed and three more injured in an attack at an Afghan special forces base near Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, the US military has confirmed. The unidentified attacker was killed as well. One member of the US military and one civilian were killed, while one service member and two civilians were wounded, “during an attack near a coalition base by an unknown assailant,” said the US command in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
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KP- US Navy Seals planned to conduct operation in Pakistan to rescue hostagesThe United States Navy Seals had planned to conduct an operation inside Pakistan for the release of the Canadian hostage and his family from the captivity of the Haqqani terrorist network, it has been reported. According to the US officials quoted in a report by The New York Times, the Navy Seals had prepared for a similar operation that was conducted in 2011 for the assassination of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad of Pakistan.
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Reuters- 33 killed in Afghan bombingTaliban suicide car bombers and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least 33 people, including the police chief, and wounding 160, in the deadliest of a series of attacks across the country, officials and militants said. The attack targeted a police training centre attached to the headquarters in Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, and the death toll was expected to rise.
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KP- Deadly US airstrikes target Haqqani network compound in Pakistan’s Kurram AgencyA series of deadly airstrikes targeted a compound of the Haqqani terrorist network in the Kurram Agency located in the tribal regions of Pakistan close to Durand Line with Afghanistan. According to the local security and intelligence officials, the airstrikes were carried out late on Monday night.
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CNN- 41 people, including chief, killed in attack on Afghan police headquartersAt least 41 people were killed Tuesday in an hours-long, multipronged attack at a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. Another 158 people were injured, said Murad Ali Murad, the country's deputy interior minister for security. Two car bombs exploded at the gate of the police headquarters in the Paktia provincial capital of Gardez, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said.
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KP- Clash among ISIS and Afghan forces leaves 12 dead, wounded in Kunar Clash among ISIS and Afghan forces leaves 12 dead, wounded in KunarAt least twelve people were killed or wounded during a clash between the Afghan security forces and the ISIS militants in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan. The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in the East said the incident took place late on Saturday night in the vicinity of Kunar Bain area.
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Served on HMS Furious and then HMS Victorious in Atlantic, Pacific and Meditaerranean. As he talked of visiting Panama Canal and Pearl harbour I presume he was on Victorious when it was USS Robin for a time in 1943. Worked in the Secretariat as Personal Assistant to Chief Air Officer (Med) FAA in Malta as his last posting. I believe.Demobbed as Lieut. Cmndr (S) RNVR in 1946