William Calley, US Army officer convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War – obituary
‘I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy,’ he insisted. ‘That was my job on that day. That was the mission I was given’
‘I was ordered to go in there and destroy the enemy,’ he insisted. ‘That was my job on that day. That was the mission I was given’
A protégé of Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld, he went on to be honoured in France for his work on the French artist and draughtsman
Born in France to British parents, she starred in Italian, French, German and Spanish as well as English films across many genres
He won the Championship title, the Gillette Cup twice, and played his part in two record partnerships
Fluent in German, she listened to enemy VHF voice messages in the North Sea, and fed coded HF transmissions to Bletchley Park
Another client, Somerset Maugham, was ‘mad keen to learn to dive, and was so adventurous that I used to worry that he would hurt himself’
In his book Commando Men, Samain describes commandos racing across treacherous Normandy beaches, rallying to the call of a hunting horn
She was known as ‘the Queen of Swords’, and she told an interviewer, ‘Swords are definitely my weapon of choice’
BB King said that without Mayall ‘a lot of us Black musicians in America would still be catchin’ the hell that we caught long before’
An entertaining debater, with a hatred of pomposity, he proved a doughty opponent of Stratfordian scholars and led the De Vere Society
‘It’s like God planted a musical seed right in that area of Detroit and it just blossomed into a world-loving flower’
A star of the postwar boom in British creativity, he designed stylish, functional and affordable products that improved their users’ lives
He introduced online wine sales in 2000 and opened outlets in Calais to serve the cross-channel trade
He later transferred to the RAF and oversaw the dispersal of oil following the Torrey Canyon disaster in 1967
She said Sweet Honey wanted to ‘shatter people’s concepts about what should come out of women’s throats’
He survived a mining accident to become a superlative ambassador as Pot Black made snooker a favourite with the television-viewing public
He entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1982 for the highest and steepest slope ever skied, and would happily ski on bare rocks
He wrote books packed with ‘unnamed sources’ about the Duchess of York, Diana and Prince Harry
Margaret Thatcher chose his imaginary telephone conversation between Walter Raleigh and his West India Company boss on Desert Island Discs