Milestones
Nov 15, 2019
2 minutes
—JOSEPH HINCKS
DIED
James Le Mesurier
Humanitarian pioneer
AS A BRITISH ARMY OFFICER SERVING IN NORTHERN IRELAND and the Balkans, James Le Mesurier saw what can happen to civilians in conflict zones. So in 2014, he founded a humanitarian group, Mayday Rescue, to help build emergency-response capacity in such places—in part by training Syria’s White Helmets, who’ve been credited with saving
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