Combined Services v Barbarians match of remembrance will be a poignant occasion
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe will be remembered before the annual Combined Services v Barbarians match.
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Errors & Omissions: Shocking revelation... other rival newspapers really do exist
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
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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Bloodiest year since Falklands War
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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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Why leaders must speak ....
CDR Salamander (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... 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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The British Politicize Their War Dead Just Like We Do
An American Lion (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... 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...