CDR Salamander (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... in Afghanistan foreshadowed his own death in a damning memo about the shortage of helicopters. Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe told his superiors that British troops would die because they were being forced to make trips by road. Less than a month later, he was blown up by a roadside bomb. In his final despatches to commanders in London, classified 'Nato Secret', he had...
Parlez~me~'n~Tory (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Peter Hammond, father of Trooper Joshua Hammond who died in Afghanistan alongside Colonel Rupert Thorneloe has called on Gordon Brown to resign. In his statement he said Brown’s either a liar or hasn’t a clue about what’s going on. He should do the right thing and quit It was revealed within the past few days that Colonel Thorneloe [...]
An American Lion (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... Mail, a conservative newspaper which has a strong animus against the Labour government, says that Lt. Col Rupert Thorneloe, commander of a battalion of Welsh Guards who died in an IED attack on July 1, in effect "foreshadowed his own death." The paper said that in a June 5 weekly message to British Defense Ministry HQ, Lt. Col. Thorneloe reported that, because...
Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... of not taking the war seriously. The MP claimed that an official forwarded him a memo in which Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, who was the most senior British officer to be killed -three weeks after the filming-, ‘warned about the risks posed to troops by a shortage of helicopters’. On the other hand, Chief of the Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup said to the BBC that ...
