Lives Remembered

Published: 6:35PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Previous of Images Next Abdulkhakim Ismailov (centre) Photo: AP Audrey Collins on being inaugurated an titular piece of of MCC Photo: REX

Audrey Collins

Feb 14, elderly 94. Former authority of the England Women"s Cricket Association. Born in Delhi, where her father was portion as a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers. After in attendance London University, became a schoolmistress and represented a array of cricket teams, especially in the south of England. A sharp-witted medium-paced bowler and aggressive center sequence bat, she played in one Test conflicting Australia at the Oval in 1937 scoring twenty-seven and one not out. Ended her precision career at St Albans Girls High School, and incited to cricket administration, apropos secretary, authority and eventually boss of the Women"s Cricket Association; her tenure as WCA president, 1983-94, was the longest in the history. Was one of the initial 10 woman members to be certified to MCC after it voted to concede women to stick on in 1999.

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Bill Ritchie

Jan 25, elderly 78. Cartoonist who with pictures pages for most children"s comics, together with the Beano, Topper, Sparky and Dandy. Was quite associated, however, with Beezer. Developed a rarely particular and deceptively elementary character that kept him in work via a prolonged career and in to retirement. After fasten DC Thomson in the 1950s he was fast in use in producing full-page cartoons. By the 1960s he was authorised to work from home. Familiar strips enclosed Baby Crockett, Bimbo, Barney Bulldog and The Moonsters. The last of these featured on the behind page of Sparky at the launch roughly half a century ago, but rarely renouned with the immature readership was shortly promoted to the front cover. A penetrating photographer and sculptor, he was additionally a clinging believer of the RSPB.

Edmund Hey

Dec 7 elderly 77. Paediatrician and colonize in the caring of baby babies, on condition that justification on the physiology of thermal law and the organization of neonatal caring that continues to be executive to clinical caring and process decisions today. Also recognized the significance of interpretation collection, that enabled the result of caring to be evaluated. Was additionally a clever proponent of nurse-led neonatal care. Appointed expert in respiratory paediatrics at Great Ormond Street prior to moving, in 1970, to Newcastle as comparison techer in kid health. His approach, that was primarily met with a little scepticism, is right afar mostly emulated at a inhabitant level.

Frances Reid

Feb 3, elderly 96. American singer well known to millions of radio viewers as Alice Horton, mama of the daytime soap show Days of Our Lives. Earlier in her 70-year career she had been an achieved Broadway actress, personification conflicting Maurice Evans in Hamlet and Jos Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac. Made her veteran behaving entrance in New York in 1933 in the low-pitched humerous entertainment The School for Husbands prior to streamer to to Hollywood. Was offering a array of small purposes at RKO, starting with Stage Door (1937) conflicting Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, that led to some-more movie and theatre roles. Joined Days of Our Lives in 1963, after being cajoled by her father to accept given purposes for women over 40 were not plentiful. Forty-four years later, in Nov 2007, Reid noted her last coming on the show at the age of 93.

Abdulkhakim Ismailov

Feb 16, elderly 93. Red Army infantryman who featured in the distinguished sketch of Russian soldiers raising the hammer-and-sickle dwindle over the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945. Three soldiers crop up in the snapshot, that photographer Yevgeny Khaldei after certified had been staged, after the strange Soviet dwindle at the Reichstag was shot afar by German snipers. Ismailov is the center of the 3 figures, seeking on as a comrade tentatively hoists the dwindle whilst offset precariously atop the building. Ismailov was identified in 1996 and awarded a Hero of Russia award that he had unsuccessful to win in wartime, when, as piece of a equipped with a motor battalion battalion, he was bleeding five times, together with at Stalingrad in 1942.