http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/forums/23 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:30:44 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/forums/23 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9552/t/Squadron-Leader-Reg-Lewis-Navigator-Special-Duties-Squadron-.html From The Daily Telegraph 7 November.

Squadron Leader Reg Lewis, who has died aged 87, was forced to bail out of his aircraft when resupplying the French Resistance, which then helped him to evade capture and escape across the Pyrenees.

Lewis was the navigator of a very experienced crew, flying with No 138 (Special Duties) Squadron from Tempsford in Bedfordshire. The squadron's role was to drop supplies and SOE agents from converted Halifax bombers to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9552 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:30:42 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9549/t/Air-Vice-Marshal-Peter-Farr-Bomber-Pilot-.html
Air Vice-Marshal Peter Farr, who died on October 21 aged 92, started his career as a pilot flying antiquated biplane troop-carrying aircraft around the Middle East; he then served in bombers in the North African desert campaign and in Burma, and later specialised in anti-submarine warfare.

Farr was a veteran of the Middle East air routes when he joined No 70 Squadron as a flight commander in October 1941. Flying Wellington bombers, the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9549 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:50:17 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9548/t/Brigadier-Dick-Webster-Career-Soldier-.html From The Daily Telegraph 6 November.

On joining the Royal Artillery he became a member of the Hampshire Hunt - though with pay of £180 a year, plus £10 a month from his father, he had to sell his car to keep a good horse (known as a "15 bobber").

After the outbreak of hostilities, Webster was posted with 2nd Searchlight Regiment to Brest, where the men got drunk on Algerian wine. He saw little action until the retreat to the Channel ports, when he... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9548 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:43:20 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9530/t/Donald-Black-MC-Korea-.html From The Daily Telegraph 3 November.

Donald Black, who has died aged 76, was only 20 when he won a Military Cross in the Korean War for his role in fierce hand-to-hand fighting with Chinese troops.

Black had begun his National Service with the Black Watch in early 1951, and was commissioned later that year and posted to Berlin. In 1952 the regiment was sent to Korea as part of the Commonwealth Brigade supporting the United Nations force. The Chinese had... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9530 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:31:11 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9518/t/David-Paton-POW-Burma-Railway-.html From The Daily Telegraph 2 November.

David Paton, who has died aged 89, was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore and forced to work on the Thai-Burma "Death Railway".

In December 1941 Paton, a signaller serving with 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA (155 FR), was in the damp, humid conditions of a rubber plantation at Jitra in the north of Malaya when the Japanese invaded through Siam.

Forced to pull back, 155... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9518 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:25:10 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9492/t/Lu-Zhengcao-Chinese-Revoloutionary-General-.html From The Daily Telegraph 28 October.

Lu Zhengcao, who died on October 13 aged 104, was the last of China's revolutionary generals, a feared guerrilla fighter who latterly became the chairman of the country's Tennis Association.

In December 1936 Lu was at the right hand of Zhang Xueliang, the Young Marshal, when the warlord kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, turning the tide of the civil war in the favour of the Communists.

In the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9492 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:44:22 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9491/t/Private-Willard-Oliver-Navajo-Code-Talker-.html From The Daily Telegraph 28 October.

Private Willard Oliver, who died on October 14 aged 88, was one of some 400 Navajo Indians employed by the Americans during the Pacific War to confound the Japanese by transmitting coded radio messages from the front in their Diné language.

Choctaws and Cherokees had carried communications messages in the First World War. A veteran who had been partly brought up on a Navajo reserve in northern New Mexico remembered this,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9491 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:31:59 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9485/t/Louis-Jackson-Tank-Commander-MC-Italy-1945-.html From The Daily Telegraph 27 October.

Louis Jackson, who has died aged 87, won a Military Cross in Italy in 1945; in the opinion of the regimental historian, it was probably as good an MC as any that was won in the war.

On January 4 1945, Jackson was commanding a troop of tanks in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars (4 QOH). At about 5am he was ordered to assist an infantry post at a farm north-west of Ravenna which was being heavily attacked by three German... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9485 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:01:15 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9480/t/Lieutenant-Commander-Paul-Millett-Korean-War-Test-Pilot-.html From The Daily Telegraph 26 October.

Lieutenant-Commander Paul Millett, who has died aged 78, fought in the Korean War and as a test pilot made vital contributions to the successful development of many aircraft.

He learnt to fly at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire and gained his wings in January 1951. His first operational aircraft was the Fairey Firefly, flying in 821 Naval Air Squadron from the carrier Triumph where an early endorsement in his logbook... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9480 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:39:55 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9462/t/Surgeon-Lieutenant-Commander-Paul-Houghton-Royal-Navy-Doctor.html From The Daily Telegraph 23 October.

Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Paul Houghton, who has died aged 97, performed life-saving surgery on two wartime admirals who both went on to high appointments; he also found himself trapped below decks after his ship was torpedoed.

In January 1943 on the battleship Nelson, flagship of Force H, Houghton examined the South African-born Vice-Admiral Neville Syfret in his sea cabin. Houghton found him looking ashen and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9462 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:59:54 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9459/t/Werner-Heubeck-Afrika-Korps-Ulsterbus-.html From The Daily Telegraph 22 October.

Werner Heubeck, who died on October 19 aged 85, was a former member of Rommel's Afrika Korps who became an unlikely hero of the Troubles in Northern Ireland when, as head of the Province's bus services, he boarded buses personally to remove bombs planted by the IRA; his exploits earned him an OBE and CBE.

Heubeck moved to Northern Ireland in 1965, when he was appointed managing director of buses for the Ulster... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9459 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:55:35 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9454/t/Shaun-Wylie-Cryptanalyst-Bletchley-Park-.html From The Daily Telegraph 21 October.

Shaun Wylie, who has died aged 96, was one of the elite group of cryptanalysts who broke the German Enigma cipher at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

He was teaching at Wellington College in December 1940 when a letter arrived from the mathematician Alan Turing, whom he had met in America, inviting Wylie to work with him at Britain's codebreaking centre. Two months later he arrived at Bletchley Park, the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9454 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:53:37 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9443/t/William-Phipps-British-eccentric-silversmith--briefly-Royal-.html From The Daily Telegraph 19 October. Not quite the usual subject but I couldn't resist posting it.

William Phipps, who died on October 1 aged 73, was an outstanding silversmith; perhaps his greatest creation, though, was his own personality, at once endearingly eccentric, irresistibly comic, and wholly lovable.

His family history, with which he did not engage, sat oddly with the character that he forged. William Anthony Dominic Phipps was born in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9443 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:06:06 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9442/t/Lieutenant-Colonel-Norman-Field-Auxiliary-Units-British-Resi.html From The Daily Telegraph 19 October.

Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Field, who has died aged 92, played a notable part in training and leading Auxiliary Units (sometimes termed "Churchill's Secret Army") in the first phase of the Second World War.

By mid-1940, the defences of Poland, Norway and the Low Countries had been overwhelmed, and German forces had occupied north-east France and appeared to be poised to invade England. Pill boxes and tank... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9442 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:57:12 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9427/t/Major-Jimmy-McWilliam-Tank-Commander-.html From The Daily Telegraph 16 October.

Major Jimmy McWilliam, who died on September 7 aged 93, was wounded three times during the Second World War - in North Africa, France and Belgium - and later was a magistrate in Singapore for more than 20 years.

He suffered a head injury when his tank was hit on the opening night of the second battle of Alamein in October 1943, but led his men to safety on foot, genially telling them to follow his steps until he was blown... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9427 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:47:50 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9425/t/Richard-Sonnenfeldt-Interpreter-Nuremberg-War-Crimes-Trials-.html From The Daily Telegraph 15 October.

Richard Sonnenfeldt, who died on October 9 aged 86, was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who became the principal interpreter for American prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, helping to interrogate some of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich.

Among the 21 men he questioned were Hermann Goering, commander of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's designated successor; Albert Speer, who ran Germany's... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9425 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:49:01 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9417/t/Lieutenant-Colonel-Gwyn-Davies-MC-Burma-1944-.html From The Daily Telegraph 14 October.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gwyn Davies, who has died aged 91, won an MC in close combat during fierce fighting in the Arakan, Burma, in 1944.

In February 1944, Davies, then a lieutenant, was serving with the 1st Battalion the Somerset Light Infantry (1 SLI). On the night of February 7 he led a fighting patrol of five men which ambushed a 10-strong Japanese patrol near Pyinshe Ridge.

He had orders to obtain the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9417 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:48:04 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9407/t/Generalleutnant-G-nther-Rall-German-Fighter-Leader-.html From The Daily Telegraph 12 October.

Generalleutnant Günther Rall, who has died aged 91, was one of the few outstanding German fighter leaders to survive the Second World War; by the end of the conflict he was the third-highest-scoring fighter ace of all time with 275 aerial victories.

In postwar years he was one of the founding fathers of the modern German Air Force and rose to become its chief.

In the spring of 1941 Rall was a squadron commander... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9407 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:35:58 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9385/t/Bryan-Dodsworth-MC-Normandy-1944-.html From The Daily Telegraph 8 October.

Bryan Dodsworth , who has died aged 89, won an MC in 1944 for braving enemy mortar and shell barrages to direct Allied artillery fire after the Normandy landings; his diaries record his courage in remaining in position despite a conviction that he would be blown to bits at any moment.

His voyage to the beachhead on June 6 1944 did not begin well. Dodsworth, then a captain in 3 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit (COBU),... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9385 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:52:35 GMT http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9375/t/Bobby-Pegna-Popski-s-Private-Army-.html From The Daily Telegraph 6 October.

Bobby Pegna, who has died aged 89, enjoyed a cosmopolitan upbringing in Alexandria before serving as an RAF radio operator and an occasional Arabic interpreter with "Popski's Private Army" in the desert; after the war he settled down to a career in retailing in London.

Edward William Pegna was born in Alexandria on November 29 1919, the son of a cotton plantation owner of Italian, Greek, French and Spanish... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Tacolneston) http://britishmilitariaforums.yuku.com/topic/9375 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:25:42 GMT