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Everywhere Where Duty and Glory Lead

Major-General Logan Scott-Bowden. CBE, DSO, MC and Bar. Royal Engineers. Ubique (Everywhere) Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt (Where Duty and Glory Lead)As a 24-year-old, ‘Major’ Logan Scott-Bowden was a...

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Irving Milchberg Sep 15 1927 ~ January 26 2014

Irving Milchberg – obituary. Irving Milchberg was a cigarette seller in Warsaw who smuggled arms to the Jewish resistance to aid the Ghetto uprising Irving Milchberg, who has died aged 86, was the...

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The eulogy of a selfless man

Walter George Bruhl Jr was a USMC Korean War Veteran. When his grandson posted his obituary on Reddit, he said that his grandfather liked to cut out the middleman. That certainly seemed evident with...

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Those ‘Known Unto God’

Twenty British WWI heroes are finally given full military funeral in France 100 years after they were killed during Battle of Loos. Twenty British soldiers killed during the First World War were today...

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Lieutenant Colonel Denis O’Leary. Obituary

Lieutenant-Colonel Denis O’Leary. Gallant officer who was four times decorated after fierce battles in the jungles of Burma and Malaysia In a career of vigorous active service that took him across the...

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Retired Rear Admiral Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. Obituary

Retired Rear Ddmiral Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. addresses the audience during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, September 18, 2009. The prisoner of war had been...

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Robert Frettlohr. March 28 1924 ~ January 4 2014

Robert Frettlohr was a German paratrooper left for dead at Monte Cassino who saved the reputation of the man who saved him. Robert Frettlohr, who has died aged 89, was a German paratrooper who was...

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Admiral Sir Hugo White R.N. Obituary

Admiral Sir Hugo White, who has died aged 74, overcame repeated attacks by Exocet missiles during the Falklands War and rose to be Governor of Gibraltar. In the Spring of 1982 White was Captain of the...

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Maurice Roe – Obituary

Maurice Roe – Obituary. Maurice Roe was a Special Operations Executive agent who once found himself billeted in a French chateau alongside a German officer. Maurice Roe, who has died aged 96, served...

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“Wild Colonial Boy”

One early evening when I was almost five years old, I recall Uncle Jimmy picking me up and standing me square in the middle of my Gran’s dining table. Just like his three brothers – Tommy, Mick, and...

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Buck Pennington an Exile in Portales

Sad news… ‘Buck’ Pennington who blogged as exileinportales has recently crossed the bar. Buck occasionally left comments on this blog that were often drier than sticks in a desert. Among other posts on...

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Ex Royal Marine – Konstandinos Erik Scurfield

Konstandinos Erik Scurfield died fighting against ISIS whilst serving with the Kurdistan People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the Al-Hasakah province of Syria on Monday. The former Royal Marine of 45...

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Terry Pratchett has crossed the bar

Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015)British fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died aged 66 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his publisher said...

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Constable Andy Hocking-of the old school

A touching scene of community spirit: 6,000 people line the streets of a Cornish town to remember much-loved ‘beat bobby’ who collapsed and died aged 52He was the quintessential good old-fashioned...

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RIP young ‘Royal’

The death of a Royal Marine ‘Young Officer’ under training on Dartmoor will lead to questions about the safety of commando training. But it is a brutally difficult process for good reason. The Young...

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The Gentle Spy Next Door

She was a shy and retiring pensioner, who lived a reclusive life on a quiet street in Twickenham. But, behind the door of number 26, on the suburban street of Grimwood Drive, Eileen Burgoyne (left and...

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Sir Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee. 27 May 1922 ~ 7 June 2015 For the late Sir Christopher Lee, horror was not just something he portrayed so memorably in the movies, it was something that he had...

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Sir Nicholas Winton dies aged 106.

Dubbed ‘Britain’s Schindler’, Sir Nicholas Winton MBE saved the lives of 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust during the Second World War. Winton earned himself the label “Britain’s Schindler” for...

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Semper Fidelis – Rest Easy…

Four Marines killed and one critical after 24-year-old Muslim gunman opened fire with ‘high-powered rifle’ on two Tennessee military centers. Four Marines were killed this morning, when a heavily-armed...

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