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Lord Deedes
| The Rt Hon Lord Deedes KBE MC PC DL (deceased) Perhaps Britains greatest living journalist, who reported the war in Abyssinia in the 1930s and edited the Daily Telegraph from 1974 to 1986 (and is still writing for the paper today), Bill Deedes also had an eventful military career. Commissioned into the Kings Royal Rifle Corps he fought with the same company of motorised infantry from Normandy to VE-Day, ending up in command. His unit was normally attached to an armoured formation and charged with clearing enemy defensive positions that were delaying them. Frequently leading advances, the company suffered heavy casualties and Deedes was the only officer to survive from June 1944 until the end of the war. He was awarded an MC in 1944. With the Armistice he returned to the Telegraph. As a Conservative MP, Bill Deedes represented Ashford in Kent from 1950 until 1974. In 1955 Winston Churchill appointed Bill Deedes as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. He then moved to the Home Office in 1955 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary. In 1957 he retired but five years later returned as Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet. Bill Deedes succeeded Maurice Green as Editor of The Daily Telegraph in 1974 and remained in the post for twelve years. Since 1986 he has remained a leader writer and columnist for The Daily Telegraph. In April 2000 Bill Deedes received the Journalist of the Century award at The Oldie Magazine awards and at the press awards in March 2002, he was awarded the Press Gazette Gold Award. Bill Deedes was ennobled in 1986 and in 1999 received a knighthood for services to humanitarian causes, as well as journalism. Lord Deedes passed away on 17th August 2007. |
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  | Normandy Veterans Association 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Print by Michael Turner. SOLD OUT | Official limited edition print of the 60th Anniversary of the Normandy Veterans Association. The Eastern Flank of the D-Day battlefield, 1300 hours, June 6th 1944. No single picture could possibly encompass the actions of all British forces on D-D...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
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