Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Milligan (16 November 1910 – 27 September 1994) known as Spike Milligan, was an British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. He was famous for The Goon Show amongst other things. He died of kidney failure. On his grave, written in Irish is: "I told you I was ill".
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| Born | Terence Alan Milligan 16 November 1910 |
| Died | 27 September 1994 (aged 83) Rye, East Sussex, England |
| Resting place | St Thomas's Church Winchelsea, East Sussex, England |
| Citizenship | British (1910–1954) Irish (1954–1994) |
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| Years active | 1943–1994 |
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| Children | 6 |
Spike Milligan Media
Men of Milligan's unit, 56th Heavy Regiment, with a BL 9.2-inch howitzer, Hastings, Sussex, May 1940
A Scammell Pioneer tows a howitzer of 18 Battery, 56th Heavy Regiment in Italy, 23 December 1943.
Title page of the program to Oblomov, before its name change and move to the Comedy Theatre
The headstone of Spike Milligan's grave in the grounds of St Thomas' Winchelsea, East SussexThe name of his last wife was added along with birth and death dates and an additional epitaph. Spike Milligan's epitaph includes the phrase Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite, Irish for "I told you I was ill". The headstone is positioned roughly midway between the New Inn and the church door.
Plaque to Spike Milligan in Woodside Park. Taken about 10am, Sunday 16th September 2005. Londoneye 11:16, 16 October 2005 (UTC).
Monkenhurst, Hadley, where Milligan lived from 1974
The Spike Milligan memorial bench in the garden of Stephen's House in Finchley
