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Mother of tragic kid's TV host Mark Speight dies...
Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:57:49 +0100
Heartbroken mother of tragic kid's TV host Mark Speight dies five months
after son's suicide.
The mother of tragic children's TV host Mark Speight has been found dead at
her home.
Jacqueline Speight, 62, was heartbroken after Show presenter Mark committed
suicide in April. She is believed to have died of a str ...
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Colonel Charles Greenwood, MC (1919-2008)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
Colonel (Grahame) Charles Arthur Greenwood, who died 12 August, 2008,
aged 89, fought at the Battle of Monte Cassino and was awarded an MC
in the field. In May 1944 Greenwood, then a captain, was serving with
22 Field Regiment Royal Artillery (22 FR). On the night of May 11, he
was forward observation officer with ...
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Frank North, GM (1914-2008)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:38:05 -0700 (PDT)
Frank North, who died 7 August, 2008, aged 93, was awarded the George
Medal for rescuing a soldier from a minefield in Kent.
On August 27 1943 North, a corporal, was serving as a medical orderly
with No 2806 Squadron of the RAF Regiment at an airfield on Romney
Marsh when a call for help was received from the Ar ...
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Professor Philip Henry Nicholls Wood (1928-2008)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:05:53 -0700 (PDT)
Professor Philip Wood, epidemiologist, was born on October 23, 1928.
He died on June 16, 2008, aged 79
Professor Philip Wood was a leading epidemiologist who rewrote the
classification of disease and transformed the scope of public health
medicine.
Wood was not just an epidemiologist who counted diseases in ...
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John Ballantyne, CBE (1917-2008)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:03:52 -0700 (PDT)
John Ballantyne, CBE, who died 25 June, 2008, was a prominent member
of a remarkable generation of British ear, nose and throat surgeons
who reformed and advanced their specialty. A versatile and skilful
surgeon, Ballantyne trained dozens of younger surgeons, and ENT
surgeons all over the English-speaking world kn ...
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Dame Alison Munro, DBE (1914-2008)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:52:24 -0700 (PDT)
Dame Alison Munro , DBE, who died 2 September, 2008, aged 94,
abandoned a high-flying career in the Civil Service to become High
Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School, the independent day school in
Hammersmith, west London.
Since its foundation in 1904, the school had established a reputation
for combining schola ...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Cliff Norbury, MC (1919-2008)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Clifford (Cliff) Norbury, MC, who died 25
July, 2008, aged 88, won an MC at the Rhine Crossing and subsequently
had a successful career in industry.
On March 24 1945, 6 Airborne Division landed east of the Rhine;
Norbury, then a major, was serving as DAQMG. Both the other A/Q staff
o ...
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David Hepburn Craighead (1918-2008)
Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
David Hepburn Craighead, actuary and political activist: born Benoni,
South Africa 28 December 1918; National Vice-Chairman, Liberal Party
of South Africa 1961-65; chairman, South African Defence and Aid Fund
1964-65; married 1947 Thelma Joyce Vine (two daughters; marriage
dissolved 1964), 1969 Kathleen Scales (tw ...
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Rev Andrew Christian Ross (1931-2008)
Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:54:54 -0700 (PDT)
Andrew Christian Ross, missionary and Church historian: born
Millerhill, Lothian 10 May 1931; ordained minister of the Church of
Scotland 1958; Minister, Church of Central Africa Presbyterian
(Malawi) 1958-65; Chairman, Lands Tribunal of Nyasaland, then Malawi
Government 1963-65; Vice Chairman, National Tenders Bo ...
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Chas Messenger (1914-2008)
Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:28:13 -0700 (PDT)
Chas Messenger, who has died aged 94 after a period of failing health,
was an uncompromising race organiser and cycling historian who made a
massive contribution to cycle racing in Britain. After the death two
days earlier of the Merseyside organiser Ken Matthews, Messenger's
passing marks the end of an era, that ...
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