Ian Lavender RIP
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AnilS
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What a shame, he can't have been a day over 20!
Glad to hear he was a villa fan. I stayed in one in Tuscany once.
Glad to hear he was a villa fan. I stayed in one in Tuscany once.
From what I 've read, I think he was happy with his lot. He says that in some ways being "Pike " for 10 years, aged 22 to 32, held him back for other roles, but he recognised that he was lucky to have a steady income. He also enjoyed the fact that people would shout "Don't tell him, Pike!" across the street or "Stupid boy" even in later life. That's a legacy. 50 years on, you're still on the telly every week. RIP Pike. You made us all laugh. Over and over again. Thank you.
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As an aside, Arnold Ridley's story makes for quite a read.... active service in both World Wars, AND in the actual Home Guard ...
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Arnold Ridley - Wikipedia
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A lot of people did that, WW1 and WW2 were only 21 years apart.
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As an aside, Arnold Ridley's story makes for quite a read.... active service in both World Wars, AND in the actual Home Guard ...
Arnold Ridley - Wikipedia
I retraced Ridley's footsteps on the Somme for a Great War photographic project that I did back in 2016. He was bayonneted in the wrist and groin in a roughly dug trench just in front of Gueudecourt, and very fortunate not to have been killed. I had a .303 bullet that I picked up from the ground on the site of the trench which became a bit of a charm. I would carry it with me when I was there, and leave it concealed somewhere or other between visits. One spring I left it in a cleft in a young tree, and when I next returned the tree had claimed it as its own.
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