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The Green Howards "Gazette", which ceased publication in April 2006, was published 3 times per year. In each issue there were to be found several Obituaries of members of the Green Howards regimental family. Obituaries found between 2001 - 2006 in the Green Howards "Gazette" are indexed below. With the amalgamation of the Green Howards into the Yorkshire Regiment, the Green Howards "Gazette" has been replaced by "The Green Howard". Each issue of this journal includes a list of "Absent Friends", with a limited number of Obituaries.

If you would like an Absent Friend recorded, then please contact Area HQ (Captain Dennis Appleyard) on <rhq@greenhowards.army.mod.uk>.

Absent Friends, - The Green Howard, since January 2006

RHQ has been informed of the death of the following since 1 January 2006. Where a link is shown, an obituary has been written and may be read by selecting the link. Entries from the most recent edition of the Green Howard have the dates shown in red.

Mr Syd Adams F. Ashman	2007 11 March 2006		R Bailey Joyce Baird Mr Cyril Barrow Mr I Bradley Maurice Bell Mr L Billett Mr W Blurton Geoff Boot Lt Ron Boyes Mr F Brewster Mr Frank Briggs Michael Brown Mr J J Burkhill Brian (Cushy) Butterfield	29 September 2006 27 January 2007 20 January 2008 11 October 2007 14 April 2007 1 June 2007 3 May 2007 23 February 2007 22 August 2006 5 April 2007 7 January 2008 15 January 2007 31 March 2007 2 July 2006

Major S P Cadman Mr G Campbell Mr D Coatsworth Mr Joe Cockburn D Cowser D Cox	28 November 2007 August 2007 23 April 2007 19 November 2007 16 December 2006 19 October 2006		Mr A N Dale, MM Mr A Dixon ex-W02 Geoff Doble	2007 5 July 2007 5 May 2006

Mr N Elford	19 March 2007		ex-Sergeant Eugene Fisher MM Douglas Flatters J Foster ex-2nd Lieut lan Fowler OBE	4 March 2006 18 January 2007 25 January 2006 13 April 2006

Corporal George Gardiner Corporal Arthur Garrett Fred (China) Gill Mr K Gomersall Ex-Sergeant J Green	15 December 2006 5 February 2007 15 July 2006 27 November 2007 17 July 2007		C A Hall Mr S Halder Gordon Hill J W Hind ex-Bandsman T. Hodges S Hope Mr Arthur Hopkins Captain Eric Hopkins Sgt Frank Hoskins Johnny (Woggy) Hughes Mr P Hughes	14 October 2006 7 June 2007 29 January 2007 4 October 2006 6 March 2006 30 November 2006 2007 20 January 2008 16 November 2007 27 June 2006 8 May 2007

			Sgt Lee Johnson Mr R Jordan	8 December 2007 31 October 2007

Mr P Kelly Captain C V Kidd Major Sidney Kirk MBE	8 April 2007 6 February 2007 10 January 2008		Mr George Lane K Lord Mr Alan Lund	2007 9 November 2006 December 2007

B Malone Lt Michael Matthews Mr Albert May Mr N P McLatchie ex-Private Alex McNair Mr 'Dusty' Miller, MM John (Jack) Mook Mr Andrew Mucklow Mr Jim Mulvana J G Myers	30 November 2006 1 November 2006 3 February 2008 August 2007 25 April 2006 1 January 2008 9 December 2006 3 January 2008 2007 2 February 2006		Geoff Nalton Mr J Newton ex-Private Leslie Alfred Norman Mr Dudley Northey	25 February 2006 28 October 2007 2 April 2006 2 May 2007

Ex-WO2 J O'Brien	25 July 2007		Mally Patrick R (Dick) Piper Mr Robert Poole Col W K Pryke MBE	9 August 2006 19 May 2006 22 January 2008 21 November 2007

Peter Raine ex-Corporal Jack Rogers P M Rogers	12 December 2006 6 March 2006 30 August 2007		ex-Private R. J. W. Shearman ex-Drummer E. Shield Ray Short Lieut-Colonel Graham Silvey OBE Captain David Neil Simmons J Simpson T Spencer Jack Spurr Captain Sir Andrew Stark KCMG CVO Mr L Stockdale Mr D Stoddard Mr Wilf Swales	23 May 2006 11 May 2006 17 January 2007 June 2007 8/9 April 2006 5 September 2006 27 February 2006 10 June 2006 3 April 2006 November 2007 July 2007 23 April 2007

Private B Thompson B Thornton Mr G Tose D Tuckley	29 March 2007 24 November 2006 22 June 2007 21 June 2006

Mrs Rita Walker Corporal Webster M Webster Major Dennis Whitehead MC Mr Bill Wilson ex-Private W. A. Woodcock J A Woodward	16 December 2007 12 December 2006 13 December 2006 6 March 2006 2007 4 May 2006 12 February 2007

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Obituaries Published in "The Green Howards Gazette", 2001 - 2006

The following obituaries are listed in alphabetic order;-

Keith Allison Ex-Private Bill Anderson Bandsman Jack Appleby Ex-Cpl Francis Robert Arnell	5 March 2001 29 December 2004 6 August 2003 28 October 2003		Colonel J S Bade TD Field Marshall Sir Nigel Bagnall L/Cpl John Baker (no obit) Colin Barker Len Bickerton Sergeant J Bishorek Alan Booth Margaret Bottomley Albert Bratt Ex-Sergeant C N Brocklesby Aisne Stanley Brooks George Eric Brown Jim Brown	1918 - 2005 1927 - 20023 February 2002 28 October 2001 2002 24 December 2003 2001 1922 - 2002 1919 - 2005 2 March 2004 1917 - 2002 17 November 2004 18 August 2005

Major D E Cartmel MC Hughie Cassidy Colour Sergeant Terry Cassidy Tony Cellini Bill Cheall Ex-Private T H Childs Bill Clark Desmond Clements Major David G Clay Colonel E W Clay OBE Lt. Colonel J M Cooper Corporal John Cooper Chris Cox Peter Curran Captain Leslie Cusworth	5 May 2005 18 October 2001 April 2002 6 January 2002 23 June 1999 20 June2004 29 November 2000 15 February 2005 16 September 2003 15 April 2003 1922 - 2002 19 October 2003 1930 - 2002 September 2000 23 September 2003		Captain P R Delf James Richard Dixon	26 April 2005 10 September 2002

Ex-Sergeant J L Earl Peter Edwards	26 March 2004 1 September 2000		Lieut-Colonel L A Fitzroy-Smith MC Bernard Franks	2 April 2003 5 January 2000

Arthur Goodwin Mrs Desmond Gordon Major D Goulds	1920 - 2005 6 September 2003 27 May 2005		Joe Hall Richard Hall Leslie Thomas Hassard Lieut Colonel Henry Haynes Dick Heap Ex-RSM Colin Helmn MM Vincent Peter Higgins Major J Hodgson Arthur Hoggarth Sergeant George Hopkins Corporal Chris Horner Jack Horton Major P L Hoskins Ex-Corporal "Dusty Howell" Major G R Hovington Major Derek Gordon Hughes Major J L Hughes Major Arnold Hull Roy Humble	9 October 2001 13 July 2001 13 May 2001 16 April 2001 25 April 2003 31 July 2003 5 March 2001 2 December 2002 1909 - 2001 22 June 2002 2002 15 October 2004 10 April 2003 1927 - 2005 8 September 2002 February 2001 31 March 2003 11 April 2002 April 2002

Lt. Colonel J M B Isaac, MC TD	25 February 2004

Leslie Knight Major H E Kidd Ex-Staff Sergeant J P King Major Peter Kirby,MC	December 2000 May 2003 1943 - 2004 1911 - 2003		Stanley Lake Captain T B Latham Ex-Private K Legg Lieut Colonel J H Leighton TD J N Lockwood	15 February 2006 26 May 2005 9 August 2004 20 March 2001 11 October 2003

Colonel D'Arcy Mander Gordon Mallinson Lieut Colonel J H Marchant-Smith MBE Matthew Henry Maughan George McCowie Miss Laura Mead Canon John Conway Meek Major R W Metcalfe TD Brigadier Aubrey Miller DSO* Stanley Mills Sergeant A E Mitchell Joe Mitchelson Henry Moreton	1910 - 2001 December 2000 23 December 2005 October 2004 8 March 2003 10 March 2002 26 May 2002 1915 - 2005 13 May 2003 3 November 2000 29 January 2006 5 January 2001 1910 - 2003		Major The Reverend R E Nash	20 November 2004

Major David O'Driscoll Frank Orton Major (QM) Richard Outhwaite	May 2000 24 March 2001 2 October 2002		Norman Palmer Corporal Francis Charles Patrick Squadron Ldr R W Pearson DSO DFC Major G E R Pendred Major A G Pickard Colonel Geoffrey Powell MC FRHistS Lance Corporal W Pyett	5 March 2002 12 March 2002 26 January 2001 13 June 2004 2001 5 January 2005 15 November 2002

Lieut Colonel D G St J Radcliffe John Radcliffe Ex-Private R T V Reardon Norman Reay Lieutenant Edward (Ted) Roberts Colonel M W T Roberts OBE John W Robson Major Hank Rushmere Major John Russell	5 March 2001 1 June 2002 13 August 2004 16 June 2005 27 July 2004 14 January 2005 24 August 2003 2002 May 2002		Captain John Sabine Ex-Sergeant J V Sadler Lieutenant Colonel John Sanderson Mrs Jeanne Scott J A Scuffham, MM Arthur Selby Sheila Sefton In-Pensioner T H Shields Thomas Albert Simblet Ex-Private W R Smith Captain R Snape Albert Snowden Major J Sothcott Andrew Stewart (no obit) Captain K L Stewart Albert Stokell Colonel P T van Straubenzee DSO DL Colonel H A Styles Jeffery "Swagger" Swales	October 2001 30 September 2003 20 December 2001 25 January 2003 1919 - 2003 1925 - 2005 16 July 2004 20 February 2004 13 May 2001 1 November 2003 1921 - 2003 10 October 2002 26 January 2006 13 December 2001 16 January 2004 January 2005 20 October 2005 13 June 2001 2005

Lieutenant Colonel F Thierry Alan Thomas Captain G W Thrift Eddie Tunny Corporal Robert Turner (no obit)	12 January 2006 1997 30 December 2005 1917 - 2001 30 March 2002		Jack Verity	15 March 2002

Band Sergeant E T Waites MBE Captain D H Warrener Colonel R M Weare JP DL Brian West Colonel G Widdowson Brian Wilson Fred Wilson Captain K Winterschladen Les Woodward Mick Worton	23 October 2002 January 2001 27 April 2004 25 July 2000 15 December 2002 23 June2001 5 September 2001 5 December 2003 20 June 200 14 April 2005		Major Alex Young	26 March 2001