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.

STUART WILLIAM JOHN HOLT sadly passed away peacefully on 23 August after a short illness. Stuart, from East Sussex, was born on 14 November 1934 and j…
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Former national chairman Henry Hugh-Smith has died at the age of 79. He was a Colonel in the Blues and Royals, having joined the regiment aged 19. In …
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Vince Horton was born in Essex, the second of five children. The family moved to Bradford in the 1920s but when Vince’s father, out of work in the Gre…
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Blesma Member Fred Tattersall, who died aged 96, was a former soldier from Lancashire who survived stepping on a mine in France in 1944. Fred was the …
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Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster 1951 - 2016 The Duke of Westminster and his family have been associated with Blesma for many years. He becam…
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Alexander John Monro known to us all as Alastair because he preferred the Gaelic form of Alexander. He died on 01 September, just nine days short of h…
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