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CORTAZZI Later Sir (Henry Arthur) Hugh Cortazzi GCMG 2 May 1924 -14 August 2018 RAF Inteligence, India, interpreter at Japanese surrender. Later Ambassador to Japan
DAVIS Lt Arthur John Davis 1924 - 2018
Enlisted in RN on 18th birthday. HMS Anemone South Africa, Burma i/c HMS Ready, aged 21, off southern Ireland
EVANS Cdr (Thomas) Keith Evans 6 September 1919 - 26 June 2018
HMS Hood, HMS Hawkins, HMS Glorious, HMS Barham, HMS Penelope
FILBY Major Robert Gordon Filby MC, Croix de Guerre 26 November 1923 - 28 July 2018
Essex Regt. Only platoon commander in battalion who landed on D-Day to survive. MC near Nijmegen Jan 45. "Oh, I did some damn fool things" India until Partition
FORD Flying OfficerJohn Richard Ford DFC RAFVR 18 September 1922 - 9 August 2018
30 ops on Lancasters over Germany and in support of Normandy. 57 Sqn. Later India 228 Group Communications Sqn
HOPKINS Captain John Francis Hopkins RA 1939 - 2018 Trucial Oman Scouts. Northern Ireland
HUGHES Captain Dr Stephen James Hughes 12 June 1957 - 4 May 2018
M.O.2 Para Goose Green. Mentioned in despatches. No casualty who reached him died. Belize. Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. Lecturer on battlefiedl medicine
LEE Major Richard C Lee died 8 September 2018 aged 88
LINE Cdr Timothy Charles Line died 1st September 2018 aged 87
PITMAN Major Alfred Linforth Pitman TD Croix de Guerre (Bir de Hacheim) died 22 August 2018 aged 102ÂÂÂ Royal Sussex Regt TA
PLASKETT Maj Gen Freddie Plaskett CB, MBE died 1st September 2018 aged 91
SCOTT Major James Kenny Courtney Scott died 9 August 2018
SWIRE Lt (later Sir) Adrian Swire 15 Feb 1932 - 24 August 2018 Coldstream Guards National Service
TURNER Wng Cdr Robert E Turner died 25 August 2018 aged 82
VINCENT Field Marshal Richard Frederick, Lord Vincent of Coleshill GBE, KCB, DSO 23 August 1931 - 8 September 2018
Royal Artillery. DSO for service in Northern Ireland (RA Regt acting as infantry). MGO. VCDS (first Gulf War, Options for Change), chief of Defence Staff 1991-2
WATSON - HOPKINSON Pilot Officer William Ian Watson-Hopkinson died 20 August 2018 aged 87. Later Army Personnel Research Establishment
WILSON Vice Admiral Sir Barry Nigel Wilson died 29th August 2018
BLOM-COOPER Captain (later Sir) Louis Blom-Cooper QC 27 March 1927 – 19 September 2018 Captain, East Yorkshire Regt
DEACON Keith Vivian Deacon Irish Regt died 16 September 2018 aged 82
GRIFFITHS Col David John Palfrey Griffiths dies 21 September 2018 aged 71 RTR/RLC
HUGHES Air Cdre Peter Arden Hughes CBE, DFC 18 November 1918 – 1 August 2018 489 Sqn Hampdens anti shipping 27 ops. shot down piloting Beaufighter off Norway. Stalag Luft III. Later flying instructor, Iraq, C/o RAF Seletar Singapore c/o RAF Tangmere
LAPARGE Michael Laparge 15 November 1923 – 20 July 2018 Home Guard. Fleet Air Arm. Seafire Mediterranean, Far East
MAXWELL Wg Cdr Anthony Michael Lockhart Maxwell died 25 September 2018
RAMSAY David Ramsay RN 1937 – 2018 HMS Centaur HMS Otter Perishers i/c HMS Ocelot, HMS Superb. Finally HMS Dolphin
RAWDING Major Frederick W Rawding died 5 Sept 2018
RYDSTROM Cgre Nils Rydstrom LVO died 20 September 2018 aged 97
SHEARWOOD Lt Kenneth Arthur Sherwood DSC 5 September 1921 – 5 July 2018 TLC cdr Salerno, Anzio, Messina
SOMERVILLE Brigadier (later Sir) Nicholas Somerville CBE MiD twice 16 January 2018 – 9 September 2018 One of first ashore at Gold Beach with South Wales Borderers on D-Day, reached objective by 11pm 15 miles inland. i/c company entering Hamburg. Cdr 1st Borderers Aden
TAMLYN Col Roger Stanley Pelham Tamlyn died 14 September 2018 aged 78 RAMC
TAVENER Major Anthony Tavener RE dies 15 September 2018 aged 94
THOMPSON Geoffrey Thompson RAF navigator died 21 September 2018 aged 76
WALSH Lt Col Patrick James Walsh RE died 24 September 2018 aged 84
WEBB Rupert Thomas Webb 11 July 1922 – 27 August 2018 KSOB. HMS Nairana North Atlantic
WRIGHT Captain Peter Howard Wright RN died 19 Sept 2018
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