Obituaries
Blesma helps military veterans who have lost limbs through or after service. Here, we honor our Blesma Members and those closely linked to the Charity who have sadly passed on. Blesma shares these Obituaries, which contain heroic war stories and tales of survival, from WWII to the present day.
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William Robert Dunn MBE JP
Bill Dunn lost his left arm above the elbow and received gunshot wounds to both legs and his spine whilst engaged in the Normandy Landings on Juno Bea…
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Philomena Agnes Magdalene Tibbenham
Phil Tibbenham lost her left eye as a result of enemy action whilst serving on an anti-aircraft gun site near Hastings in 1944. She served as a member…
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Captain Tommy Catlow
Captain Tommy Catlow, who has died aged 99, was one of the last British survivors of war time imprisonment in the notorious Colditz Castle. At dawn on…
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Frank O’ Connell
The outbreak of WWII found Frank O’Connell already registered for military training. He joined the King’s Regiment in October 1939 and, having been ma…
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Douglas Baines
A lot has already been written about Douglas Baines. He has been the subject of a TV news piece and is held in near-celebrity status in a small town i…
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Bert Evans
1 October 2013, aged 92 Bert Evans, who has died aged 92, was one of the last survivors of the massacre at Wormhoudt, near the Franco-Belgian border, …
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