First off Brian Ansell - reported as a separate topic

That was last year. 30th Dec

David Soul at 80....

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 05 January 2024, 04:01:15 PMDavid Soul at 80....

Just saw that. Only a couple of days back I downloaded and watched an episode of Starsky and Hutch; the first time I had  had watched it since the 70s

 

Glynis Johns at 100

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/05/glynis-johns-dead-mrs-banks-mary-poppins

Franz Beckenbauer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67917047

JPR Williams. Full back, Bridgend, Wales, British Lions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67912287

JPR Williams, what a player and a true rugby great .

A rugby God

Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 05 January 2024, 09:19:24 PMGlynis Johns at 100

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/05/glynis-johns-dead-mrs-banks-mary-poppins

She still has a fan base. The DVD of Miranda her Mermaid Movie is going for 83 quid on Amazon

Quote from: Gwydion on 08 January 2024, 08:58:24 PMJPR Williams. Full back, Bridgend, Wales, British Lions.

Just seen this sad news.  The first of the modern running full-backs on which they are all modelled these days.  Every so-often a sportman or woman really changes the game they play and he was one of them.  What a team the Welsh one of the 70s was, even as an Englishman they were a joy to watch.  I will have to dust off my DVD of the Barbarians v All Blacks 1973.
 

It was only late last year that The Oldie magazine had an article about Glynis Johns being about to turn a hundred.

Geoff 

Annie Nightingale!
OMG
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/12/annie-nightingale-radio-1-dj-dies-aged-83?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3ELNFVKc7Sy0Z_Hov9q4KKtWKN3xhCJn8sfPvgFYUp5M259GLNQ_rZpdo#Echobox=1705066569

Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 12 January 2024, 01:51:21 PMAnnie Nightingale!

I know!   

Copied from Faceache - I'm sure that many of the older members of the group will own at least one of these books, or one of many others by the same author. It may surprise you to discover that Otto von Pika was not the lesser son of a minor noble house of a forgotten European state, nor a refugee from the East, but was at the time of writing a serving British Army officer by the name of Digby Smith. Digby Smith passed away on 9 January 2024. So, raise a glass to one of the old guard of British military historians and wargamers.

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 16 January 2024, 09:38:17 AMCopied from Faceache - I'm sure that many of the older members of the group will own at least one of these books, or one of many others by the same author. It may surprise you to discover that Otto von Pika was not the lesser son of a minor noble house of a forgotten European state, nor a refugee from the East, but was at the time of writing a serving British Army officer by the name of Digby Smith. Digby Smith passed away on 9 January 2024. So, raise a glass to one of the old guard of British military historians and wargamers.

I believe my first bought uniform book was an Osprey Von Pivka. A prolific author, and a great loss.

Awww! I have so many books by both von Pivka and Smith.

One of the books that actually changed my life was Armies of thge Napoleonic Wars.

RIP, a great author and source.

Read the news on The Napoleonic Wars Forum yesterday.  He was 89 apparently.