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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
A grieving father whose son died alongside the most senior soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has called on the Prime Minister to resign. Peter Hammond said Gordon Brown was either lying or incompetent when he insisted that a shortage of helicopters had not led to British deaths. Mr Hammond, whose teenage son Josh died alongside Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, said: 'Brown's either a liar...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Remember the email from the late Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe complaining about a lack of helicopters in Afghanistan? Well, I'm going to tell you a secret. The existence of the email was first disclosed in the Daily Mail.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The beginning of July also saw the death in Afghanistan of the most senior British officer to be killed since the Falklands War, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
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An American Lion (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... 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 of the helicopter...
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CDR Salamander (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... 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 dismissed helicopter...
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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 [...]
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Dunedin Napier News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... 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 Lt Col...
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The Ranting Penguin (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
"I'll Just Do My Tommy Cooper Impression For You..." Lt. Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the most senior ranked casualty in Afghanistan, in dispatches to his superior officers on June 5 2010 ; words to the effect that British troops would die because they were being forced to travel by road instead of by air, making them easy targets for the Taliban. Dead 3 weeks later due to being...
