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The Trusty Servant in Canada . Married 1946 Marjorie Godfrey . She died in 2004 after 58 years of marriage . He is survived by their son and daughter .
Henry Arthur Gunning Brooke ( I , 36- 41 ): died 4.2.2017 aged 93 . Son of BGB ( H , 08-13 ). He was commissioned into 16 / 5 Lancers , with whom he served in North Africa , Italy and Austria . In the words of the citation for an immediate MC at Cassino in 1944 : ‘ Lieutenant Brooke ’ s handling of his troop was beyond praise . The success of the three attacks over three successive days was largely due to the magnificent way that he led his troop .’ He was Adjutant in 1946 and Commanding Officer in 1966 . He was then successively GSO 1 Joint Planning Staff HQ Allied Forces Central Europe 1969 , Principle Staff Officer to UK C-in-C ( Home ) 1972 and Deputy Director Defence Operations ( Army ) 1975 . He retired as Colonel 1978 . He was Colonel of the Regiment 1980-85 . He loved skiing and he was chuffed to receive a free ski pass once he was 80 at Val d ’ Isere . He had a passion for art and his home was filled with pictures . He was extremely interested in the computing world , buying his first machine in 1981 , and going on to buy each succeeding generation of PC . He was always meticulous and an incredibly efficient man . He is survived by his nephew and niece . Obituary in The Daily Telegraph .
Colin Richard Kirwan Peal ( A , 37-42 ): died 12.12.2016 aged 92 . Precluded from military service on medical grounds , he took up an engineering apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong 1943-47 . He then worked for Transport Equipment ( Thorneycroft ) Ltd , first in Basingstoke , then as General Manager in New Zealand and in Australia . In 1962 , he established his own company , Peal & Co ( Distributors ) from which he retired in 1987 . He was Master of the
Cordwainers ’ Company 1982-83 . He became the Father of the Company in 2009 and the Chairman of the Board of Management , Cordwainers ’ Technical College in 1983 . The College was in difficult circumstances and he wisely masterminded the transfer of the College to the London College of Fashion . He had a passion for cars and had his own workshop . He owned a 1924 Bentley until 2014 . He loved music and sang with the Braintree Operatic Society . A truly wonderful gentleman who set the standard that Cordwainers should seek to achieve . He is survived by Pat , his wife of 61 years , whom he married in St Paul ’ s Cathedral , Wellington , New Zealand , and their three sons .
Guy Lumley Lyster ( D , 38-42 ): died 3.12.2016 aged 91 . Brother of JNL ( K , 32-36 ). Commissioned , Grenadier Guards 1944 , with whom he served in NW Europe . He was posted to the War Crimes Trials at Nuremburg and then Commanded a War Graves Registration Unit . He was demobbed as a Captain 1947 . He remained a fond member of the Essex Branch of the Grenadier Guards Association . Trinity College , Cambridge , Honours Degree , Estate Management 1949 , MA . FRICS . He worked for Strutt & Parker , rising to be Deputy Senior Partner before retiring in 1990 . He was a leading advocate of the Sale & Leaseback scheme , building up a large acreage in England and Scotland . In 1966 , he established the De Crespigny Charolais herd , which still holds the record UK price for a Charolais heifer at the annual sale at Carlisle – realising 27,000 guineas at auction . He hunted with the East Essex Foxhounds , becoming MFH for a decade . He was a most competent point – to-point rider , winning 28 races . And for 40 years he was a judge at the Royal Show , the Horse of the Year Show and the Royal Dublin Horse Show . DL Essex 1975 , President Essex Show 1997 . Liveryman , Worshipful Company of Salters and Freeman of the City of
London . Chairman , Eastern Region , the Countryside Alliance . A man of enthusiasm , innovative ideas and a true gentleman of the countryside . He is survived by Gill , his wife of 58 years and their son and daughter .
Stephen Arthur de Mowbray ( A , 38- 43 ): died 4.10.2016 aged 91 . Brother of RRdeM ( G , 34-39 ) and father of GSWdeM ( K , 95-98 ). In 1943 , he joined the RNVR ( A ) and served as an observer with 817 Squadron . Demobbed 1946 . Exhibitioner , New College , Oxford , 2 PPE 1949 . He served in MI6 in the Diplomatic Service 1950- 79 . First posting to Baghdad , where he found the Iraqis friendly . Then he was posted to Montevideo ; whilst there he reported to London a Russian couple as being an ‘ illegal ’. The couple subsequently disappeared and so began his involvement in the investigation of Roger Hollis , Head of MI5 , as being a mole . In 1964 , he was removed from the investigation and was posted to Washington and subsequently became Head of Station . Whilst there he sang in the choir of Washington Cathedral . On return to London he was dismayed to find that the investigation into Hollis had been allowed to go into the long grass . He retired in 1979 but still believed that Hollis was a mole : he submitted papers to both Harold Wilson and James Callaghan but the matter was allowed to rest . In 1984 , he wrote New Lies for Old , which publicised the Russian defector Golitsyn ’ s view that Perestroika was a ploy to disarm the West . In 1995 , he published The Perestroika Deception , which rejected the 1980s reforms . He believed the counterintelligence mantra : ‘ One needs humility to believe that you could be deceived and the scepticism to believe that you are being deceived .’ After retirement , summer holidays were spent in Menton in the South of France . Married ( 1 ) 1952 Tamsin Giles ( marriage dissolved ) and ( 2 ) 1979 Patricia White , who survives him with three sons and
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