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  • ...a [[stretcher bearer]] with the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and earned a Military Medal for taking the wounded off the battle field at the Battle of the Somm ...f> [[Arnold Ridley]] actually served during the First World War with the [[Somerset Light Infantry]], and fought in the [[Battle of the Somme]], where he was s
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  • | birth_place = [[Walcot, Bath]], [[Somerset]], England.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information. | resting_place = [[Bath Abbey Cemetery]], [[Widcombe]], Somerset, England
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  • | death_place = [[w:Bath, Somerset]], England ...[[w:actor|actor]] who appeared in many British films and television dramas from the 1950s onwards.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films
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  • {{infobox military person ...> He was educated at [[Edinburgh Academy]] and then trained at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].
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  • | death_place = [[Porlock Weir|Porlock Weir]], [[Somerset|Somerset]], England He was credited in 40 films between 1948 and 1971, and on television from 1960 until his death. He was often cast as a police inspector or as a navy
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  • ...greying, Vernon settled into playing archetypal middle-aged [[lord]]s and military types while still in his 30s.<ref name="Independent 13 Dec 1997"/> He is pe ...Service Sir James Greenley in ITV political drama ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'' from 1978 to 1980. In 1986 he appeared in ''[[Paradise Postponed]]'', and voiced
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  • ...ulture/2008/jun/11/art Albert Herbert: A visionary artist, he found a path from abstraction to religious imagery via etching]. ''The Guardian''. 11 June 20 ...tories.<ref name=bfi /><ref name=BAFTA_tribute_pdf /> After completing his military service in 1948, following [[British Actors Equity Association|British Equi
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  • ...Mainwaring]] in the [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' from 1968 until 1977, was nominated for seven [[w:BAFTA|BAFTA]]s and became one ...is final years, he maintained a busy professional schedule until his death from a stroke on 15 April 1982, aged 66.
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  • ...t recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed ...significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death.
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  • ...Television|BBC]] British [[sitcom]] ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' that ran from 1972 until 1985, with a one-off episode in 2016. ...es ended, there was a spin-off series called '''''[[Grace & Favour]]''''', from 1992 until 1993 with many of the original actors reprising their roles. An
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  • ...nrolled at the [[Fay Compton|Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art]] in 1933. From there he took a position in [[repertory theatre]] and made his stage debut ...rinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of [[cirrhosis]] of
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