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This printer’s block is one of a set of three which were used at Dimond’s in the High Street during the printing process for the front cover of JRW...

THE chief constable of Thames Valley Police was a special guest at a former officer’s 100th birthday celebration this month.

Roger Horrell, diplomat who helped to transfer power in Rhodesia and was later a senior figure at MI6 – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © Provided by The Telegraph Roger Horrell in Africa: he had grown to love the continent during National Service in Kenya Roger Horrell, who has died aged 85, was a senior MI6 officer who contributed significantly to the transfer of power from the white Rhodesian government to the black government of the newly independent Zimbabwe, culminating in the Lancaster House conference of 1979. Africa became part of Horrell’s life during National S...

The widow's plea: An oft-forgotten victim of a famous Kilkenny ambush gone wrong Berni Egan has researched the story of the Friary Street Ambush - the 100th anniversary of which is today Reporter: ');  '); “At 9am he had his breakfast with me at own house in Upper Walkin Street, and went off to his work about 9.30am. I did not see him again alive.” — Widow Bridget Dollard’s statement to Military Court of Enquiry, Kilkenny, February 22,1921. Over the course of the next few minutes one man would die, and two would lie mortally wounded just feet away from where this family breakfast ...

Brigadier John Randle, officer who won an MC leading an attack under heavy fire in Burma in 1945 – obituary From an exposed position he directed men in an assault on Japanese machine-gun posts, and he was later ambushed by murderous dacoits Brigadier John Randle Credit: family Brigadier John Randle, who has died aged 99, won a Military Cross in 1945 in the last weeks of the Burma Campaign. On April 30 1945 Randle, then a captain, commanded a company of 7th Battalion, 10th Baluch Regiment (7/10 BR), which had been ordered to attack a strongly defended enemy position at Pegu Hill, north-east...