We mark on the next page the passing of those who have served this country. Contributions from comrades and families welcome.
AYRES Lt Col Brian William Ayres MBE died 26 May 2019
BEALE Lt Col Karl Saxon Beale MC 12 May 1929 - 12 April 2019 SAS. 1 Bn Q Own Royal West Kent Regt Malaya,MiD, 3 Para Suez, 44 Para Oman later Sultan of Oman i/c special forces
BLOCK Peter Block Legion d'Honneur 22 June 1932 - 15 January 2019 Volunteer parachutist and interpreter Op Hasty - Italy, Op Dragoon South of France August 1944, Greece
BOLT Alan Bolt 1919-2019 Royal Marines, King's Royal Rifle Corps. North Africa, captured, sent to Italy then Stalag IV-B
BUDD Col David John Budd MBE RA died 16 June 2019 aged 89
CLARKE Air Cdre Charles ClarkOBE 25 November 1923 - 7 May 2019 Bomb aimer 619 Sqn Woodall Spa shot down over Black Forest 1944 Stalag Luft III watcher, forger. Long March to Lubeck Later CO RAF Stafford, Palestine, Aden, Malta
Attended U K Defence Forum/APPG for Armed Forces Bomber Command dinner
CLEVELAND-STEVENS Captain Robert (Babby) Cleveland-Stevens Legion d'Honneur 12 July 1919 - 6 March 2019
Welsh Guards (relinquished pacificism when it failed to prevent war) Op Goodwood. First tank to enter Brussels after fastest fighting armoured thrust in history (97 miles 14 hour) Wounded in Germany
COHEN Lt Col Mordaunt Cohen MBE TD DL 16 August 1916 - 18 April 2019 1940 joined TA anti aircarft artillery. 1942 Nigeria later i/c Muslim soldiers fighting Japanese in Burma. Rejoined TA in 1954. Assn of Jewish ex Servicemen
DARWALL Freddie Darwall died 12 March 2019 aged 89 Royal Marines
ENGEL Charles Engel 1921-2019 Jewish refugee 1936. Wartime service Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt Battle of Anzio Jan 1944 Later academic
EVERETT Cdr Peter Joscelyn Everrett OBE RN died 24 March 2019 aged 92
EYRE (later Sir ) Sub Lt Reginald Edwin Eyre RNVR 28 May 1924 - 26 January 2019
FARR (Sir) Charles Blandford Farr CMG 15 July 1959 - 15 February 2019 Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (Home Office) Chairman, Jt Intelligence Committee. One time U K Defence Forum speaker
FIELD Maj Gen Geoffrey William Field CB, CVO, OBE 30 November 1941 - 1 February 2019
Royal Engineers. Falklands. Later Engineer-in-chief and Governor of the Tower of London
GREEN Brig Duncan Ross Green CBE MC died 21st April 2019 aged 93 10th Gurkha Rifles
GREENHILL Air Cdre John Granger Greenhill died 6 June 2019
GRANT Capt Neil Anthony Douglas Grant RN CBE died 20 April 2019 aged 82
GURDON Brigadier Adam Brampton Douglas Gurdon CB, CBE, DL 4 May 1931 - 22 May 2019 Black Watch
Korea, Battle of the Hook; Kenya - Mau Mau; Chief of Staff, Commonwealth Monitoring Force Rhodesia 1979;Â Cabinet Office - MoD Falklands Liason
HERBERT Admiral Sir Peter Herbert KCB, OBE 28 February 1929 - 3 May 2019
Submariner; Perisher course HMS Excalibur, first Cdr HMS Valiant (Polaris); flag officer carriers & amphibious; flag officer submarines (Falklands); finally CDS (personnel and logistics)Â
HORN Simon Ashley Horn 9 March 1935 - 8 December 2018 National Service Kenya (Mau Mau operations)
ISAAC Col Christopher John Isaac died 2nd May 2019 aged 92
KNOCKER Lt Cdr Arthur J S Knocker died 14 March 2019 aged 91
LEDSOM Robert Kenneth Ledsom RN died 5 April 2019
MACFARLANE Maj General William Thompson (Bill) Macfarlane CB died 14 April 2019 aged 93
MANGLES Major Robert Miller Mangles RE died 18 June 2019 aged 88
MOCATTA Cdr Michael Ernest Mocatta died 22nd March 2019 aged 91
MORTON Rev Mark Morton 22 July 1958 - 2019 Army chaplain Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia
NICHOLAS (Sir) John William Nicholas KCVO, CMG 13 December 1924 - 15 February 2019 Indian Army 7th Raijput Regt Burma. Later diplomat
O'KELLY Captain EMS (Mike) Kelly RN died 13 April 2019
PRATT Dr David Lynn Pratt CBE 16 August 1924 - 13 Marh 2019
Royal Engineer "Hobart's Funnies" Juno beach D-Day . Eventually commanding PoW camp. Later Fuchs Trans Antarctic Exhibition
PRICE AVM John Price CBE died 26 April 2019 aged 89
ROBINS Lt Col Walter Robins OBE died 3 April 2019 aged 89. Duke of Wellington's Regt
SANFORD Bevis Sanford 15 March 1918 - 4 April 2019 King's African Rifles Ethipia and Abyssinia, Later Colonial Serv
SAUVAGE Sqn Ldr Joseph Henri Jean (John) Sauvage OBE, DSO, DFC & Bar 9 February 1919 - 2 April 2019
64 opns with Bomber Command then Transport Command 44 Sqn Hampdens; 100 bomber raids twice; 97 Sqn Pathfinders Lancasters; later D Day Deception "Monty's double) and VIP flight India
SEABROOK Col Peter William George Seabrook died 3 April 2019 aged 91 Royal Artillery
SUTCLIFFE Brigadier Maurice William Sutcliffe OBE MiD10 October 1922 - 8 April 2019
Wounded with Royal Irish Fusiliers North Africa Op Torch. Army liaison with RAF, flew 12 missions over Europe. SOE parachuted into Croatia to support Resistance. RN helicopters liaison Malaya. After pilot qualification joined newly founded Army Air Corps. Germany. Cdr aviation Army Strategic Command
TADMAN Col John Tadman died 12 March 2019 aged 85 Royal Anglian Regt
THORNELOE Major John Thorneloe RA died 4 April 2019 aged 96
WALKER Surgeon Vice Adm Alasdair James WalkerCB OBE 22 June 1956 - 1 June 2019 finally surgeon general of the armed forces. HMS Plymouth Falklands - first British warship to enter Port Stanley. Supported Royal Marines Iraq War (Kuwait) Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, lessons of Afghanistan
WILKS Brigadier John Barford Wilks RE CBE died 18 April 2019 aged 87
WILSON Albert 'Tug' Wilson Born March 1924 died 11 February 2019 aged 94
Last survivor of Op Deadstick - the capture of Pegasus Bridge of D-Day MiD Later Suffolk Regt India (Partition)
