Ulitzer95

I think we've seen this troll before...

Explains a lot.

He's been moved from a generalist hospital to one which specialises in cardiac and cancer matters. Nothing to do with private vs. state. St. Bart's is the best in the country for the areas they focus in on.

@The Old Crem – 1) Does your boss know that you just sit on your arse all day hitting the refresh button on your Twitter feed? 2) You do realise that when you post a tweet by a journo, and then post a subsequent 10 tweets which say the exact same thing albeit worded slightly differently, that it is no longer "news" and you're essentially just spamming.

Can I ask when the List of the Missed/List of the Lost will be up?

Your suspicions are correct. This is definitely him as there are no other matches in the records even remotely similar: 1940 United States Federal Census: Name: Dean Higuchi Age: 7 Home: Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii So born 1932–33.

Or it could be the Jim McLean situation all over again? Tbh, why would you put out a statement at 8pm on a Sunday? They've maybe opted to wait for the "morning call".

Rarely go on that page tbh, but just had a quick scroll through it seeing as it's been a while. At least one name has died but is still alive on Wiki... María Teresa Linares Savio (wiki), Cuban musicologist, died back in January aged 100. Nobody cared then, nobody cares now. Wikipedia is full of pages of pointless people!

Interesting... anybody else who's notable and "of a certain age" live nearby you? We'll be sending you round their digs to check in on them. Clipboard in hand, name tag on shirt, representing a fictional organisation so you can extract valuable info for our DDP teams.

Don't think this photo was ever posted. From the Daily Mail, August 2020, Australian actress Mary Ward (wiki) on her 105th birthday. Looks very good for her age (potential supercentenarian candidacy?). Then again, this article from the same period suggests her engagement with others was becoming poorer... whatever that means. Anyway, she turns 106 this week!

Theatre is one of the areas where my knowledge is terribly poor. Must confess I didn't know Routledge had a prominent stage career until the other day. When I posted about American Hollywood Golden era actress Patricia Marmont dying off radar in December, I subsequently read that after her owning acting career, she became the theatrical agent for Kenneth Branagh and Patricia Routledge!

For completeness, Johnny Briggs dead. BBC obit. Three Carry on films – Carry On Up the Khyber, Carry On Behind and Carry On England. Quite a handsome lad in the 1960s.

Yeah alright Mr. Pedantic. Well the list I compiled is a generic one of British television actors over 90, including character actors and sitcom actors. But there isn't a general thread for British television, so in here it went!

Updated list again to include someone we overlooked – James Martin, who played Eric in Still Game. Turns 90 in a fortnight, so as I'm likely to forget, many happy returns to him for then!

#DeathlistKnew

Former Notre Dame defensive tackle Louis Nix (wiki) found dead at 29. Reported missing several days ago. Car was discovered, mother believed he was distressed. Suicide likely.

Bob James (wiki), who replaced Sammy Hagar as lead singer in Montrose and recorded with them for 2 albums from 1975–76, dead at 68 or 69 as a result of stomach ulcer complications.

@Spade_Cooley Could've saved myself a lot of time last night. There's a great documentary on Youtube here called The Brits Who Fought For Hitler. At 1:33, the presenter says "We have tracked down the only survivor of the 59 men who passed through Hitler's renegade British SS unit". That survivor being Chipchase, who died in 2012 aged 95. They try to interview him in the documentary and he basically tells them to fuck off. Worth a watch. Anyway, assuming the journos who made the programme actually verified the above statement, they're almost certainly all dead now.

Before the 1990s it was particularly bad. There was a period of successive by-elections because of Labour MPs just dying. I think it was very much down to the type of people who were elected as Labour MPs back then i.e. they were more likely to come from more humble beginnings, but that often meant born into poverty, bad diet and lifestyle, manual labour job preceding their parliamentary career and getting hooked into the drinking culture that exists in Westminster. Sir James Spicer, who was a Tory MP from 1974 to 1997 recognised there was a wider problem for the lifestyle of MPs. Too much work + too much drinking + bad diet + no exercise = early grave. He often spoke about it, and campaigned to have a gym installed inside Parliament, which opened in 1978 and remains very popular amongst MPs. Definitely made a big impact. You don't see many MPs just dropping dead from strokes or heart attacks now.

Point taken, but I can't think of any of the Conservatives MPs who have been shuffled out since 2015 by Cameron, May or subsequently, became peers and died. So that doesn't account for why there hasn't been any deaths, does it? In fact, there's only been one death of a Conservative who was an MP in any of the Parliaments from 2010 onwards, and that was Sir Peter Tapsell in 2018. And he was pushing 90!

I feel it’s also worth mentioning, the use of this thread and the general Forum reporting of updates on “make a wish/cancer mum” types is way down thanks to you guys banning their candidacy over at the DDP. It was clearly the right decision. Discussion of them is both uncomfortable and dull. It’s only February and there’s been a noticeable drop in users posting about them.

To make an entirely pointless non-statement, I agree with both of you. Detest this thread with a passion @msc but I also see PB’s point... if you don’t allow a space for people to occupy their urge to post crap then it just gets spread out elsewhere. Nobody needs to know/cares that Lady Gaga’s dogsitter was shot and wounded, but if FFBI or Family of the Famous didn’t exist, it would just get spread out elsewhere. I much prefer clicking “Mark Forum as read” on the main Forum navigation upon seeing someone has posted in here rather than clicking on to pages of interest to me eg “Dead of 2022” and having to read it.

Facebook post reporting the death of Indian Jesuit priest Linus Nirmal Gomes (wiki), aged 99. EDIT: Confirmation.

@Spade_Cooley Here's what I got. Couldn't find any that were still living. A lot of blanks though!

Members of the British Free Corps (wiki) William J. Alexander No idea, from Glasgow according to this Frank Axon 19 Jan 1920, Cheshire – c. Jan 1986 (65–66), Cheshire Via Ancestry Ronald David Barker Born c. 1924 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Quite a nasty character according to this. Evaded capture at the end of the war. Harold Deane Batchelor 2 Sep 1920, London – c. Apr 1996 (75), Cornwall Sourced from here Kenneth Edward Berry (wiki) 17 Nov 1925, Devon – 22 Nov 1992 (67), Cornwall Harry Charles Blackman From Essex. Possible dates of 1914–1980 on Ancestry, but nothing to confirm it. William Charles Britten (wiki) No idea. I think his name is spelt incorrectly on Wiki ("Brittain") as most book sources say Britten. Can't trace an origin. Intelligence files say he worked in Bournemouth before the war but he was part of a Warwickshire regiment? Alfred Browning Can't find anything on him. other than that he was in the Argyll and Sutherland William James Chapman Can't find anything on him. Robert Chipchase 19 Jul 1916, North Yorkshire – 26 Jun 2012 (95), Western Australia, Australia Via Ancestry Frederick Wilfred Edward "Nobby" Clarke Unbelievably there are about 3 different people on Ancestry that could be him. Thomas Haller Cooper (wiki) 29 Aug 1919, London – early 1987 (67), or late 1990s, England Can't trace him in the GRO or Ancestry. His death in 1987 is according to author Adrian Weales. Though this book says late 1990s. Cooper spent some time in Japan and converted to Buddhism. Likely he changed his name which is why I can't find his record. Roy Nicholas Courlander (wiki) 6 Dec 1914, London – 1 Jun 1979 (64), New South Wales, Australia Hugh Wilson Cowie 1 Jun 1918, Aberdeen – c. Jan 1975 (56), Devon Via Ancestry. In and out of prison after the war, which is where he died Frederick Croft From Finchley, London. Can't find much more on him. George Croft Lots on him but can't find vital bios. Arthur James Cryderman 6 Jul 1914, Manitoba, Canada – 29 Jan 1998 (83), Ontario, Canada Via Ancestry Clifford Dowden Can't find anything on him. [unknown] Ellsmore unknown – unknown Mystery Belgian man who had managed to acquire a British military identity, believed to have been executed by the Nazis during the war Thomas Louis Freeman Canadian. The only one totally cleared of any wrongdoing after the war. Can't trace him. Roy Ralph Futcher 8 Feb 1911, Dorset – 3 Jan 1986 (74), Cheshire Via Ancestry; he was traceable because his codename during the war was "Philpott", which is the maiden name of this R. R. Futcher's mother! Cyril Haines Possibly from County Durham. Can't find anything on him. Robert Reginald Heighes 25 Jun 1919, Hampshire – Mar 1980 (60), Essex Via Ancestry William How From Rochester, Kent. He fled in early 1945. Can't find much more on him. Edward Jackson Born 1916 and possibly from Lancashire. Can't find much more on him. Thomas Blake Kipling 25 Apr 1921, Yorkshire – c. Aug 1986 (65), North Riding of Yorkshire Via Ancestry Pieter Andries Hendrik Labuschagne 19 Sep 1911, South Africa – 30 Dec 1983 (72), South Africa Via Ancestry Robert Henry Lane Possibly from Surrey. Can't find anything on him. John Leigh From Lancashire. Can't trace him. Dennis John Alfred Leister 19 Jun 1922, London – Sep 1990 (68), Hertfordshire Loads of info on this guy here Frederick Lewis Can't find anything on him. Alexander MacKinnon Edinburgh? – late 1990s, Edinburgh Died in retirement, there are several people on Scotland's People who could be him so I haven't been able to narrow it down Douglas Cecil Mardon Born in 1919/1920 in South Africa. Can't trace him. Edwin Barnard Martin (wiki) 11 Feb 1919, Ontario, Canada – 16 Aug 1987 (68), Ontario, Canada Wiki has no bio details, dates are from Ancestry Francis Paul Maton 14 Feb 1921, Warwickshire – 1 Feb 1983 (61), London Via Ancestry Francis George McLardy (wiki) 17 Nov 1915, Liverpool – 16 Dec 1981 (66), Rhineland, Germany William John Miller Can't find anything on him. Alfred Vivian Minchin (wiki) 27 Jan 1917, Surrey – c. Feb 1998 (81), Somerset Charles Munns Scottish. Can't trace him. Ernest Nicholls Can't find anything on him. Harry Nightingale From Burnley, Lancashire. Can't trace him. There's a Harry Nightingale born in Burnley in 1911, could be him but can't find anything to prove it. William Cecil Perkins 6 May 1916, London – c. Jan 1979 (62), Cambridgeshire Via Ancestry Reginald Eric Pleasants (wiki) 17 May 1913, Norwich – c. Jul 1998 (84–85), Norwich Norman Rose Possibly from Surrey. Can't find anything on him. Herbert George Rowlands 3 May 1909, London – c. Feb 1986 (76), Kent From here William Alan Watson Shearer (wiki) 13 Aug 1917, Northamptonshire – 9 Jul 1995 (77), Northamptonshire Wiki has no bio details, dates are from Ancestry John Sommerville Can't find anything on him. He was still missing by August 1946. Albert James Stokes 3 Aug 1917, Western Australia, Australia – unknown, Queensland, Australia Died in an army hospice from cancer according to this Henry Alfred Symonds (wiki) 24 Mar 1924, Middlesex – c. Jun 1994 (70), Cheshire Wiki has no bio details, dates are from Ancestry L. P. Van Heerden unknown, South Africa – 12 Feb 1945, Germany Supposedly killed in action during the bombing of Dresden, making him the only BFC member to die during the war Lourens Matthys Viljoen 26 Dec 1918, South Africa – 3 Jun 1980 (61), South Africa Via Ancestry John Wilson A Sergeant coerced into joining. Can't find much info on him. Doesn't help when he has a similar name to the one below. John Eric Wilson 4 Oct 1921, Lancashire – Oct 2001 (79–80), Cheshire Via Ancestry Lionel Herbert Battinson Wood 1 Apr 1913, Victoria, Australia – 12 Nov 1974 (61), Victoria, Australia Via Ancestry Other British subjects who served in the German Armed Forces during World War II Frank Chetwynd Becker From England originally. Interpreter, later moved to Australia and became very religious. Some info here. Had a brother called Arnold. May be traceable with some effort. Douglas Berneville-Claye (wiki) 26 Nov 1917, London – 1975 (57–58), Australia 2002 BBC News article of daughter discovering truth about him. James Brady (wiki) 20 May 1920, County Roscommon, Ireland – unknown Alive in 1950 but this archived Geocities page refers to him as the "late". William Johannes Celliers South African. A police officer in Namibia. Can't trace him. This says he quietly disappeared after WWII. John Codd (wiki) Born before 1928. Arrested in 1945 after returning to Ireland with his German wife. Not prosecuted, last trace of him is in 1948. James Conen Taxi driver from London. Can't trace him. Benson Fletcher Railton Metcalf Freeman 6 Oct 1903, Berkshire – unknown Seems to have used all his middle names interchangeably and so hard to trace. His wife Irene died in Wicklow, Republic of Ireland in October 1993 so that would suggest he moved there also. Roy Walter Purdy 17 May 1918, Essex – 26 Jul 1982 (64), Essex Vivian Stranders 8 Apr 1881, London – 1959 (78), Westphalia, Germany Royal Flying Corps captain during the Great War turned traitor. Became a German citizen in 1933. Responsible for the transfer of the British Free Corps into the Waffen SS Frank Stringer Irish. Disappeared after the war, was considered a bit of drifter. Some info here.