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Dickie Atkinson (9 DLI)
A VETERAN soldier, believed to the last member of Durham Light Infantry to have taken part in the D-Day landings, has died two days before celebrating his 75th wedding anniversary with his wartime sweetheart. 17,513 total views
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Major-General James Alexander Deans Johnston
Major-General James Alexander Deans Johnston, OBE, MC (28 February 1911 – 17 May 1988) was a senior British Army officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Senior Medical Officer at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War. Known as Johnnie Johnston. 17,688 total views
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75th Anniversary Press – The Northern Echo
WHILE the street parties were in full swing in streets festooned with bunting back home in Blighty, Victory in Europe was marked in a starkly contrasting way for many British soldiers serving in different parts of the world. 19,881 total views
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Harold Pearsall
My dad, Harold Pearsall, 97, landed on Juno beach during the D-Day landings as an anti-tank gunner and took part in the assault on Caen. 16,673 total views
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Helen Bamber OBE
Helen Bamber OBE was a psychotherapist and Human Rights activist. She was born in London in 1925 and joined the Jewish Relief Unit in 1944. 18,230 total views
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Fraser McLuskey (Rev) 1SAS MC
First in with 1SAS. 11,524 total views
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Reg Seekings 1SAS, DCM, MM
Reginald Seekings was born in Stuntney, near Ely in 1920. He attended the local school from five to 14. 11,927 total views
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Johnny Cooper 1SAS
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Cooper volunteered for the SAS in 1941. Johnny Cooper was one of the first two non commissioned soldiers to join L detachment of the SAS the regiment, and helped build the service up to the effective force it is today. 24,690 total views
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Father Michael Morrison
Five years ago I was invited to give a series of lectures aboard The World, a luxurious ship owned by its super-rich residents which cruises (pace Matthew Arnold): “Round the world for ever and aye”. The day before I disembarked in Sicily, one of them asked me to lunch. “I’d like to give you a book,” he said. 16,359 total views
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Steve Shannon – 113th LAA
Steve – drop us an email with your contact details please. 15,672 total views
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