Search Results for: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama (1974)

[…] about in London?WT: Upper Clapton. North London, it was very pretty in those days, it had a village pond which I fell into a lot, and all those sort of things, it's very different now but it was awfully nice then.LW: Did you come from a show business background?WT: No, there was nobody in it at all[…]

[…]de the gate and then he realized who was there.SPEAKER: F6And I remember he was saluting all the way into the back into the lab that there were staff officers galore there red tabs and saluting and that.SPEAKER: F5And I remember when they went a staff guy would draw up and the senior officer would g[…]

[…] even more convinced that I shouldn't be a soldier, and he let me out tiny that I think he wasn't sorry to see me go. I don't think I was a wonderful officer, but then my feeling is that we were all too young to be officers. Ridiculous. Really, the benefit now of seeing the I mean, I couldn't have k[…]

[…]Linda Hall-Shaw NEVILLE WORTMAN:  I am Neville Wortman.  I was born on the 28th March 1932 in London.DARROL BLAKE:  And what sort of family were you born into?  Were they anything to do with the business?  Or …NEVILLE WORTMAN:  Well, I have been looking into this s[…]

[…]d that was when General Jupp managed to knock off General de latense?at Dien Bien Phu, and I was was actually sheduled go out there to as the liaison officer, to to them, but that fell through so I went to Malaya instead. And I'm sort of shot through there, I was then made a company commander quite […]

[…] always got a great reception from from the Naval people. And he had a habit, I don't know if it was deliberate, but he would ignore the high ranking officers, virtually just returned their salute, and he would talk to the men. I never saw him spend much time talking to the army officers that were w[…]