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Major Gordon Burt, decorated officer with the Paras and intelligence gatherer in Northern Ireland – obituary
Burt made contacts in the local community, and his combination of toughness, tact and humour lowered the temperature in fraught situations
Burt in an RAF balloon cage before descending to the drop zone, 1965
Major Gordon Burt, who has died aged 88, served in the Parachute Regiment and with the Special Forces; he was awarded an MC for his services as an intelligence officer in Northern Ireland.
Burt was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1970. After three years as second in command of the Junior Parachute Company, he was posted to the 3rd Battalion (3 Para) and went to Northern Ireland as an intelligence officer.
Freedom of the City ceremony on the Choristers Green. Inset: Prince Philip and Jeremy Nettle ON OCTOBER 16, 2004, His Royal Highness Prince Philip came to Salisbury. The occasion was the granting to Salisbury’s county regiment – the 1st Battalion the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment – of Freedom of the City, which began with a formal civic ceremony outside the regiment’s museum at The Wardrobe, in the Cathedral Close. The then 83-year-old Duke of Edinburgh, dressed in his uniform as colonel-in-chief of the regiment, was met at The Wardrobe by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Lieutenant General Sir Maurice Johnston, and was presented to regimental and local dignitaries and their wives, including colonel of the regiment General Kevin O’Donoghue, High Sheriff of Wiltshire Lieutenant Colonel James Arkell, Mayor of Salisbury Jeremy Nettle, chairman of Wiltshire county council Allan Peach, chairman of Salisbury district council Patrick Paisey and Sa
But in the Victorian era, there was immense pressure for women to tie the knot.
Those who didn t were described as Spinsters and were the subject of cruel jokes.
But a popular weekly magazine from the 1880s shows that unmarried women were perfectly capable of fighting back.
Comments sent in by single women who had been invited in a competition to explain, Why I am a Spinster showed the acerbic wit of respondents.
Historian Dr Bob Nicholson found the jokes while studying an 1889 edition of Tit- Bits Magazine, which continued to be published until 1984.
Dr Nicholson told MailOnline: I love some of the responses to this competition they turn the stereotype of the Victorian spinster on its head and reveal some of the reasons why some Victorian women might have preferred to remain single.
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