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Obituaries published in The Times of London, March 2009
Lieutenant-Colonel David Danger MBE, MM 27 February 1923 - 27 February 2009
SAS radio operator in Italy and France, and later in RAOC in Cyprus
Captain Cyril Watney MC 29 September 1992 - 23 January 2009
Daring SOE saboteur in wartime France awarded Croix de Guerre
Colonel David Wood MBE 23 February 1923 - 12 March 2009
Veteran of attack on Pegasus Bridge in 1944
Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Brooke, DSC 20 May 1920 - 6 January 2009
War veteran and author
Major-General Antonin Petrák, MBE, MC, 14 April 1912 - 8 February 2009
Czechoslovak war veteran
Petr Uruba, 15 December 1916 - 1 March 2009
Czech pilot who joined the RAF to free Czechoslovakia from the Nazis
Audrey Roche, 12 July 1918 - 13 January 2009
Wartime WRNS officer, decorated for aiding survivors of a torpedoed ship in the Mediterranean in 1942.
Squadron Leader Thomas McPhee, DFC,DFM, AE, 30 November 1917 - 22 February 2009
Wartime bomber pilot.
Commander Ian Bailey-Willmot, 6 July 1940 - 10 February 2009
Naval officer and ocean racing administrator
Arthur V. Marment, MC and Bar, 17 July 1917 - 17 January 2009
Territorial Army officer who twice won a Military Cross during the Second World War
In the service of our country. |
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