Military commanders

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,880]

De Billiare would be a good choice for the 2025 DL if he's still around. Was the  Commander in Chief of British Forces in the Gulf War also director of the SAS at the time of the Iranian Embassy siege so will get  BBC and Sky Obits 

[polar duck 859]

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin has been hospitalized since Monday.

[Comped 525]

6 minutes ago, polar duck said:

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin has been hospitalized since Monday.

Specifically kept secret by the Pentagon for 4 days... Although they describe it as minor complications. Which generally wouldn't be something you keep quiet about for days on end.

[Windsor 2,233]

5 hours ago, Comped said:

Specifically kept secret by the Pentagon for 4 days... Although they describe it as minor complications. Which generally wouldn't be something you keep quiet about for days on end.

Presumably, even if it’s minor ailments, you don’t want your enemies to know your defense secretary isn’t at his desk. 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 05/01/2024 at 22:26, Comped said:

Specifically kept secret by the Pentagon for 4 days... Although they describe it as minor complications. Which generally wouldn't be something you keep quiet about for days on end.

Thank you Dr Comped.  ffs.  

[arghton 6,694]

On 06/12/2020 at 20:38, arghton said:

Jaakko Valtanen looking pretty good today, talking with the Finnish president Sauli Niinistö:

General Jaakko Valtanen, former Chief of Defence of Finland (1983-1990) and WWII veteran, dead at 98. He criticized the 1960s peace movements, as Chief of Defence greatly strengthened the Defence Forces and let more Finnish peacekeepers go on UN Middle East missions. He died at the Kauniala veterans hospital.

 

I think this possibly leaves David Musuguri the last chief/head of defence of a sovereign state to have fought in WWII.

 

And as Major General Stig-Erik Malmén died a couple of days before him, the three oldest living Finnish General officers are kontra-amiraali Jorma Kaisalo (95), Lt. General Martti Alatalo (93) and Lt. Gen Veikko Vesterinen (91) who was aide-de-camp to gen. Yrjö Keinonen and President Mauno Koivisto.

[drol 11,910]

On 04/04/2023 at 14:38, arghton said:

Updated the Long March list. I'd say there are around 12-15 left who will definitely get a death mention, multiple who could/likely will get one and the yellow names who very likely won't get any kind of mention except maybe a short "they're dead" mention in those yearly or bi-yearly lists in Chinese media, currently I'm waiting for them to release a new list. Zhang Lixiong, Wang Fuzhi, Wang Jingqun and Fan Xixian, maybe Suo Xinzhong are the most notable ones left I doubt any of them will get an English obituary as not even Wan Haifeng got one.

Wang Jingqun dead at 104.

[drol 11,910]

@Sir Creep (the artist formerly known as Sir Cunto), can I have one of your wonderful explanations about your angry reaction to the above post?

[arghton 6,694]

Tanzanian Lieutenant General Martin Mwakalindile has died at ca. 79.

Mwakalindile, at the time a Major General, pictured in 1985 at the retirement ceremony of Julius Nyerere. He's seated on the left of Nyerere. Old guy on Nyerere's right is David Musuguri.

[Genfærd 452]

According to Reuters, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, commander of Hezbollah killed in US airstrike.

[arghton 6,694]

On 18/11/2022 at 16:07, arghton said:

Yusuf Gowon (1936) Amin's military Chief of Staff 1978-1979.

Yusuf Gowon, Idi Amin's Chief of Staff and at one point his right-hand man, reportedly dead from heart failure. 

[YoungWillz 21,024]

On 11/09/2020 at 22:23, Ulitzer95 said:

If there's only three turning 95+ next year, might as well extend to British commanders born in the 1920s then (excluding Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip):

Sir James Jungius b. Nov 1923, Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy
Sir Thomas Baird b. May 1924, Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy
Sir John Morrison Forbes b. Aug 1925, Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy
Sir Ted Horlick b. Sep 1925, Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy
Sir Frank Kitson b. Dec 1926, General in the British Army
Anthony Whetstone b. Jun 1927, Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy
Sir Richard Lawson b. Nov 1927, General in the British Army
Sir Alexander Boswell b. Aug 1928, Lieutenant-General in the British Army
Sir Richard Vickers b. Aug 1928, Lieutenant-General in the British Army
Sir Derek Reffell b. Oct 1928 Admiral in the Royal Navy

All of these guys will obit of course.

List is incomplete so any additions welcome.

Death notice for Sir Richard Vickers aged 95: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/vickers-notices_55709

[chel 376]

 Colonel General, Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Vostrotin, who commanded the 9th parachute company of the 345th Guards Regiment in Afghanistan, died at the age of 71.

Was under sanctions.

ru.wiki tass.ru

 

[Sinbabad 1,108]

John Bansen US Brigadier General, has died aged 89.

[Gisooo 3,296]

Vietnamese officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Nguyễn Bảo Trị (Wiki) dead at 94

 

He served as the commander of III Corps.

 

[Ulitzer95 12,576]

26 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

Vietnamese officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Nguyễn Bảo Trị (Wiki) dead at 95

 

He served as the commander of III Corps.

 

*94

[drol 11,910]

List of surviving elderly commanders of Chinese military regions:

 

Guangzhou

none

 

Chengdu

Fu Quanyou (1930)

Wei Fulin (1938)

 

Nanjing

Liang Guanglie (1940)

 

Jinan

none

 

Lanzhou

Liu Jingsong (1933)

Wang Ke (1931)

Fu Quanyou (1930)

 

Beijing

Wang Chengbin (1928)

Li Xinliang (1936)

 

Shenyang

Liu Jingsong (1933)

Wang Ke (1931)

Li Xinliang (1936)

Liang Guanglie (1940)

 

Not a large number indeed.

[Summer in Transylvania 2,171]

Kenya's military chief, Francis Omondi Ogolla dead in a helicopter crash.

[Ulitzer95 12,576]

Times obit for Major General Pat MacLellan MBE, aged 98, officer in command on Bloody Sunday.

How he doesn't have a Wikipedia page is beyond me. Wasn't on my radar as a result.

[arghton 6,694]

On 31/10/2023 at 00:18, arghton said:

Very old Vietnamese General (and former Vice President, predecessor of Vietnam war diplomat Nguyễn Thị Bình in the role) Nguyễn Quyết has been in hospital for some months this year with heart problems, not the first time... However he looks quite good here:

I think he'll survive long enough to be a pick/hit for a few teams in next year's Centenarians DP.

General Nguyễn Quyết visited again, still in hospital:

I am starting to think they include the oxygen flow meter on purpose.

 

On the topic of "army generals who were also VPs", Try Sutrisno who has looked horrible for years looks even worse here last week, seate at 38 seconds in.

[morrisey 32]

According to Wikipedia & Navy Lookout Cdr Nigel "Sharkey" Ward, DSC, AFC, RN has passed away at the age of 80  https://x.com/NavyLookout/status/1791932512496713796

[Gisooo 3,296]

On 03/01/2024 at 01:28, arghton said:

Gordon R. Sullivan, Chief of Staff of the US Army 1991-1995, dead at 86. (For DL search purposes Gordon Sullivan or Gordon Russell Sullivan)

 

Two of his predecessors are still alive, John A. Wickham Jr (96 this year) and Carl E. Vuono (90 this year). Vuono was still attending events as of 2019 and probably later, not so sure about Wickham who already looked very frail in 2010.

 

United States Army general John A. Wickham Jr (Wiki) dead at 95

 

[The Old Crem 3,581]

On 18/05/2024 at 23:22, morrisey said:

According to Wikipedia & Navy Lookout Cdr Nigel "Sharkey" Ward, DSC, AFC, RN has passed away at the age of 80  https://x.com/NavyLookout/status/1791932512496713796

The Sun

[Sinbabad 1,108]

Argentinian Santiago Omar Riveros, general during the dictatorship, has died aged 100.

[Gisooo 3,296]

On 20/10/2021 at 12:38, arghton said:

Tin Oo (1927-) Myanmar Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services 1974-1976. Frail.

 

Tin Oo (Wiki) dead at 97