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Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan

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In the 1970s, Charles Allen compiled a series of stories from British people's experiences of life in the British Raj, called Plain Tales from the Raj, and published in 1975. Milligan was the youngest contributor, describing his life in India when it was under British rule. In it he mentions the imperial parades there: A sort of British loss of face. He was our last casualty before we actually went into action. Next time it would be for real. (p. 144) Adaptations [ edit ]

Alun Parker. "Profile: Spike Milligan – My dad the mad hatter; SPIKE MILLIGAN'S DAUGHTER JANE ON LIFE WITH THE GOON". Free Online Library . Retrieved 23 May 2014.

Members of Monty Python greatly admired him. In one interview, which was widely quoted at the time, John Cleese stated "Milligan is the Great God to all of us". [91] The Pythons gave Milligan a cameo role in their 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian, when Milligan happened to be holidaying in Tunisia, near where the film was being shot; he was re-visiting where he had been stationed during wartime. Graham Chapman gave him a minor part in Yellowbeard. Milligan, Spike (27 February 2002). "My Obituary, by Spike Milligan". London Evening Standard . Retrieved 30 October 2013.

Milligan died from kidney failure, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002, at his home near Rye, Sussex. [62] On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex, and was draped in the flag of Ireland. [78] He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas' churchyard but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph. [79] A compromise was reached with the Gaelic translation of "I told you I was ill", Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite and in English, "Love, light, peace". The additional epitaph Grá mhór ort Shelagh can be read as "Great love for you Shelagh". a b c Carpenter, Humphrey (2004). Spike Milligan: The Biography. London, UK: Hodder and Staughton. p.8. ISBN 978-0-340-82612-6. Anyway I recommend this book. There are moments of what might be called political correctness but this is Spike Milligan. A man of his time and not. VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 a b c Bernstein, Adam (28 February 2002). " 'Goon Show' Comedian Spike Milligan Dies". The Washington Post.there is no light so full of hope as the dawn; amber, resin, copper lake, brass green. One by one, they shed themselves until the sun rose golden in a white sky...I closed my eyes and turned my face to the sun. I fell down a hatchway. (p 140) Milligan's next major TV venture was the sketch comedy series The World of Beachcomber (1968), made in colour for BBC 2; [27] it is believed all 19 episodes are lost. In the same year, the three Goons reunited for a televised re-staging of a vintage Goon Show for Thames Television, with John Cleese substituting for the late Wallace Greenslade but the pilot was not successful and no further programmes were made. [ citation needed] His last wife was Shelagh Sinclair, to whom he was married from 1983 until his death on 27 February 2002. [60] Shelagh Milligan died in June 2011. [62]

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