Gone but not forgotten (military obituaries)
Sir Owen Woodhouse
MTB commander in the Adriatic who became New Zealand’s senior judge
Lt Charles Sox Hosegood
Naval pilot among the first Britons to test helicopters as a weapon of war
Lorna Arnold
Public servant who surmounted sex discrimination and became the historian of
Britain’s nuclear project
William Ash
Texan 'hobo’ turned Spitfire pilot celebrated for his numerous attempts to
escape from Stalag Luft III
Lt-Cdr Kenneth Kempsell
Naval mine clearer who won a George Medal for detonating 24 torpedoes as acid
ate into his asbestos suit
Maj-Gen David Alexander-Sinclair
Army officer tipped for the highest rank
Colonel Miloslav Bitton
Czech fighter pilot who ran escape lines out of his homeland and fought with
the Desert Rats
Major-General Peter Pellereau
Officer whose birthday celebrations almost led to a showdown with the USSR
Squadron Leader Brian Jopling
RAF loadmaster who saved a stricken life raft during the Falklands War
Gurth Hoyer Millar
Scottish rugby international and SAS officer who in business kickstarted
Britain’s passion for DIY
Robert Frettlohr
German paratrooper left for dead at Monte Cassino who saved the reputation of
the man who saved him
Wing Commander Archie Boyd
Pilot who cut his teeth in the Battle of Britain and was later an outstanding
night fighter leader
Lieutenant 'Flash' Allen
Fighter pilot who saved British wartime convoys in the Bay of Biscay and en
route to Murmansk
John de Salis
Barrister and soldier who spearheaded a vital Red Cross mission to Thailand
Squadron Leader Ted Flavell
Pilot at D-Day and Arnhem who later dropped Britain’s first nuclear bomb
Lt-Col Jim Kelly
Officer who won an Immediate MC for his pursuit of insurgents in Malaya
Surgeon Rear-Admiral Frank Golden
Medical officer 'phobic about water’ who tackled the dangers of hypothermia
for those in peril on the sea
John Wilkinson
Tory MP and expert on defence who lost the party whip over Maastricht
Captain Harry Beckingham
Bomb disposal officer who dealt with lethal butterflies in Hull and survived
gas poisoning in Ilford
Squadron Leader Bob Muir
Observer in Mosquito night fighters who won a DFC and also served in the Army
and Merchant Navy
Rostislav Belyakov
Designer of Russia’s MiG fighter jets who sold his aircraft on the open market
when the Cold War ended
Captain Norman Gibson
Officer who delivered vital artillery reports - under fire and under rubble
Jerry Roberts
Bletchley Park codebreaker who cracked Hitler’s secret messages and warned of
an attack on Kursk
Colonel Tresham Gregg
Serial escaper who posed as a member of the Hitler Youth and led a brigade of
Italian partisans
Air Commodore Jack Holmes
RAF pilot who braved tempestuous seas to rescue eight airmen who had been shot
down over the Atlantic
Military
Maïti Girtanner
French Resistance worker who survived horrific torture from the Gestapo’s mysterious ‘Dr Leo’
Sir Sam Falle
Colonel Tresham Gregg
Bob Millard
Air Marshal Sir Frank Holroyd
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