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 the leading company of 1/6
Battalion East Surrey Regiment in their attack on an important
tactical feature at Monte Cassino.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2684313/Colonel-Charles-Greenwood.htm...

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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 Army. A platoon of
soldiers on a route march had strayed into a defensive minefield and
been blown up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2684311/Frank-North.html

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Kanta Patel, Councillor for Greenwich Council and campaigner for equal
rights, was born on June 2, 1947. She died on July 9, 2008, aged 61.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4668969.ece

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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
populations; he expanded that role to counting and analysing the
resources available to deal with them. In his 21 years as director of
the Arthritis Research Campaign’s Unit for Epidemiological Research in
Manchester he looked at the training in rheumatology offered by
medical schools and the numbers and variety of consultants to whom a
sufferer from one of the rheumatic diseases might be referred. He
extended this work to the national and international professional and
scientific societies to which these consultants belonged.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4669318.ece

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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 knew him through his
editing and writing. His love of music deepened his sense of wonder at
the anatomy and physiology of the human hearing apparatus. As chairman
of the Advisory Committee on Services for Hearing Impaired People
(ACSHIP), 1974-80, at the Department of Health and Social Security
(DHSS), he introduced hearing therapists, and contributed to the
formation of specialist audiological physicians. In 1978 he co-
authored an influential report on cochlear implantation which paved...

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 scholarship with mild social radicalism. Parents whose
daughters attended the school under Alison Munro included Margaret
Thatcher, Roy Jenkins, Anthony Crosland and Lady Antonia Fraser.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2677455/Dame-Alison-Munro.html

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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
officers were killed and he had the task of setting up Rear Divisional
HQ while under heavy fire from artillery, mortars and small arms as
well as organising the supply of the fighting units.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2677476/Lieutenant-Colonel-Cliff-Norbury...

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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 (two stepsons, one foster-
daughter); died Totnes, Devon 2 August 2008.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-craighead-political-activist-against...

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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 Board, Nyasaland,
then Malawi Government 1963-65; Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical
History, Edinburgh University 1966-98, Principal of New College and
Dean, Faculty of Divinity 1978-84; Member, University Court 1971-73;
Convener, Student Affairs Committee 1977-83; married 1953 Joyce Elder
(four sons, and one daughter deceased); died Edinburgh 26 July 2008.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/the-rev-andrew-ross-missionary-and-church...

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 of the men who, against the
odds, carved out a niche for the sport in the second half of the 20th
century. Within British cycling he became so synonymous with
sadistically hilly races that, to this day, older cyclists describe
tougher race circuits as "Chas Messenger courses".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/sep/03/cycling

Charles "Chas" Messenger, cycling organiser and historian, born
February 25 1914; died July 26 2008