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We mark the passing of those who have served this country on the next page, including 2 of the last half dozen Batle of Brtain aircrew. It is believed that only Flt Lt William Clark, Gp Capt John Hemingway, Wing Cdr Paul Farnes and Flt Lt Maurice Mounsdon remain. (24 December 2019 - added Sgt (later AVM) John Thornett Lawrence 235 Sqn Coastal Command under control of Fighter Command October 1940 immediately before end of Battle of Britain. Lawrence died 18th December 2019))
Contributions from families and colleagues welcome, especially about people we haven't marked
ATHERTON Brig Maurice Alan Atherton CBE died 15 July 2019 aged 92 Green Howards
BEACH General Sir William Gerald Hugh Beach GBE, KCB, MC 20 May 1923 - 4 September 2019
Royal Engineer 1942 Normandy shortly after D-Day. 11th Hussars bridge over La Bassee wounded MC. 1st British Airborne Corps India. Java. Germany 7th Armoured 1956. Camberley Staff College i/c. MGO 1977
BEARDSWORTH Maj Gen Simon Jones Beardsworth CB died 8 July 21019 aged 90 Royal Tank Regt
BEVAN Rear Adm Timothy Bevan CB died 6 June 2019
BLACKETT Captain John Beuachamp "Beachie" Blacket 6 May 1939 - 5 June 2019 Coldstream Guards. Later London fishmonger
CHARLEY Col William Robert Hunter (Robin) Charley OBE, DL died 15 July 2019 aged 95. Royal Ulster Rifles Korean War veteran
COMRIE Cdr Gillian Margaret Comrie ARRC QARNNS died 16 July 2019 aged 73
CRETNEY Stephen Cretney 25 February 1936 - 30 Sugust 2019 National Service Cheshire Regt, Intelligence Corps (Germany)
CULPIN Sqn Ldr Bernard 'Bob' Culpin DSO, DFC 27 December 1921 - 30 May 2019
Wartime volunteer navigator. 405 Sqn . 75 missions over North West Europe, 16 against Berlin, support of D-Day, V weapon sites, U boat pens. Post war rejoined RAF. Egypt (Suez) Germany Cyprus
CUNNINGHAM Lt General Sir Hugh Patrick Cunningham KBE 4 November 1921 - 12 September 2019
New Guinea with 7th Australian Divn; Burma; Greece; Suez Canal Zone; German; Cyprus; Aden Finally DCDS (Op Req)
DOCKERILL Col Geoffrey Ronald Dockerill MBE 29 August 1926 - 20 May 2019 Egypt, Palestine (1948) KOBR, Parachute Regt, ADC to Montgomery c/o 1st Bn the Loyal Regt Malta, Defence Attache Vienna
DRINKWATER (later Sir) Lt Cdr John Muir Drinkwater 16 March 1925 - 13 August 2019
1942 HMS Cumberland Arctic convoys. HMS Syrtis off Norway 1944 - missed final fatal patrol. 1945 HMS Trident far East. Recce ashore Indonesia. Later Flag Lt to First Sea Lord. Later QC, Crown Court recorder
DUNGER Gerald Dunger died 2019 aged 97. Enlisted in RAF during World War II, qualified as a pilot. Flew Spitfires and Hurricanes. Instructor
FELTON George Eric Felton 3 Februry 1921 - 14 June 2019 Wartime RAF radar engineer and instructor mainly Middle East. Later computer operating systems pioneer.
FERGUSON Air VM Gordon Macarthur Ferguson died 8 July 21019 aged 81
GOURGEY Lt Cdr Reginal Ellias Gourgey died 4 Juky 2019 aged 104
GREEN Brigadier Duncan Ross Green CBE MC 7 June 1925 - 21 April 2019
Indian Army Partition 10th Gurkha Rifles Malaysia 1964 (MC) Hong Kong border Belize
HARGREAVES Major Richard 'Dick' Strachan Hargreaves MC Legion d'Honneur 26 September 1919 - 10 August 2019
May 1929 12th Bn Royal Fusiliers TA, promoted intelligence Sgt. 1942 2nd Independent Para Bgde, landed S Italy Sept.43. Laterza (MC) Gustav Line. Monte Cassino. Op Dragoon S France Aug 1944 Le Muy. Greece. Later Special Constable (Chief Insp)
HART Sqn Ldr John Stewart Hart DFC 11 Sept 1917 - 18 June 2019 . Canadian. One of the last of The Few. 602 Sqn 3 victories
Came to Britain to join RAF Dec 1938. Lysander south coast patrols looking for invasion. 602 Sqn Spitfires One Me109, 2 prob Ju 88. 67 Sqn India & Burma Hurricanes v Japanese. 112 Sqn P-51 Mustangs Italy ground attack (DFC)
HENDERSON Major Diana Henderson WRAC 21 May 1946 - 10 April 2019 TA officer
HOUSTON Sgt Glyndwr Desmond (Glyn) Houston 23 October 1925 - 30 June 2019 Fleet Air Arm, Royal Corps of Signals, joined ENSA in Singapore, India (inspired It Ain't Half Hot Mum) Later actor
HUGH-JONES (Sir) Wynn Hugh-Jones 1 November 1923 - 5 July 2019 RAF signals officer from 1943. Cairo. Gustav Line. Algeria later diplomat
HUNT Col Thomas Arthur Hunt died 21st July 2019 aged 101
JARY (Lt?) Sydney Walter Jary MC Legion d'Honneur 24 May 1924 - 5 August 2019 18 Platoon 4th Bn Somerset LI. (TA ) Normandy reinforcement. Fighting patrols. Reichswald Forest (MC) later Ist Bn Hampshires Palestine and Libya
JORY Gerald Anthony Jory OBE 2 May 1930 - 2019 As a 13 year old worked with French Resistance as a courier and liaison with Barbier Network
KENDRICK Brig Roy Edwin Kendrick died 28 August 2019ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ MILREP SHAPE
KIRBY Maj Gen Norman George Kirby OBE 19 December 1926 - 25 July 2019 Army surgeon. Suez jumped with 3 Para to set up optg theatre. Late Hon Surgeon to HM Queen
LISTER Frederick Lister died 3 December 2018 aged 98. Royal Engineer, Fall of Singapore, 3 1/2 years PoW Burma Railway
LONG Athelstan Charles Ethelwulf Long CMG 2 January 1919 - 31 July 2019 Royal Artillery, 22nd Indian Mountain Regt. Retreat thru Malaya to Singapore 1942. Changi, Burma railway. Later Governor of Cayman Island
MCCLENN Gp Capt Donald McClen CBE, AFC died 21 August 2019 aged 86
MCINNES Flt Lt Archie (Archibald) McInnes 31 July 1919 - 31 July 2019 One of the last of The Few.
601 Sqn Hurricanes summer 1940. Oct - 238 Sqn South Coast patrols. Flew from HMS Victorious into Malta. Western Desert. Shot down. Lost lower arm. Retrained using special eqt
OTTEWILL Peter Allan Kirby died 28 June 2019 Royal Highland Fusilier
OWEN Air Cdre Peter Limsden Tudor Owen OBE died 30 September 2019 aged 85
PENTREATH Capt David Pentreath RN CBE DSO 9 Apri 1933 - 26 June 2019 Cdr HMS Plymouth Falklands conflict who accepted Argebtine surrender of South Georgia
1951 Queen's Sword Dartmouth. Fleet Air Arm pilot. HMS Daring Far East, HMS Brighton, After Falklands (bombed off West Falkland) Cdre Clyde
PIKE Brig Christopher James Pike DSO OBE 10 November 1933 - 15 July 2019
Gurkha Rifles. North Borneo DSO (jungle fighting against Indonesians 1957) Hong Kong Cultural Revolution 1967 Cyprus (Turkish invasion OBE 1974)
RAHILLY Lt Col John Richard (Dick) Rahilly died 7 August 2019 aged 98 Royal Corps of Signals
RITSON Capt Timothy William Ritson QOH died 1 September 2019
SHARP Sgt John Sharp MM 1 May 1923 - 14 August 2019
RAC, Green Hwards, SOE One of the last "Jedburghs" Radio operator "Isaac" France (MiD) "Camel" Burma then "Manual" (MM) Indian partition
SOUTHGATE Brig John Terence Southgate died 28 August 2018 aged 98 RA, Cdr 24 Airportable Brigade and 7 Para, RHA
SOWERY Air Marshal Sir Frederick Beresford Sowery CB 14 September 1922 - 24 July 2019. Promoted from the ranks
26 Sqn 1942 buried alive when Me109's attacked his hospital in Torquay. Mustang, Tomahawk ground attack 200 hrs ops. Trained glider pilots for D-Day. !st Allied Airborne Army support ground attack. Post war permanent commission 615 Sqn i/c flying Meteors. 46 Sqn. Aden. withdrawl 1967 (commanding my father) DG RAF Training Ankara CENTO
WALDEN Col Ian (Benjie) Walden MBE died 9 September 2019 aged 78
WALTER Lt Col Peter Walter MBE, MC and Bar 26 January 1928 - 28 June 2019 Sherwood Forster, 22 SAS MiD Malaya MC with Royal Lincs Regt. MC Radfan Campaign Western Aden. Later cdr Brecon para school
WEST Major Peter Williams Clifford West died 29 September 2019 aged 92
WILSEY General Sir John Wilsey GCB, CBE 18 February 1939 - 25 September 2019
Devonshire & Dorset Regt Cyprus (EOKA campaign) N Ireland S Armagh MiD GOC 1990 Former Yugoslavia. Finally C in C UK Land Forces
WHITAKER Major Jeremy Ingham Whitaker died 9 September 2019
WOODS Maj Gen Henry Gabriel Woods MC 7 May 1924ÂÂ -19 Sept 2019ÂÂ Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards ("the Skins")
Normandy July 44, MC on the Rhine 20 year old tank commander. BAOR, Korea, Aden, Libya Cdr RAC Centre. Military Attache Washington. GOC NE District. Advocate of anti-tank missile-firing helicopters
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