Stars in Battledress (SiB) was an organisation of entertainers who were members of the British Armed Forces during World War II. In Britain, during the...
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Stars in Battledress are an English musical duo featuring brothers Richard and James Larcombe. They are notable for their complex but tuneful compositions...
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Terry-Thomas (category Deaths from Parkinson's disease in England)
(ENSA) and Stars in Battledress. The experience helped sharpen his cabaret and revue act, increased his public profile and proved instrumental in the development...
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Kenneth Connor (category Deaths from cancer in England)
with the Stars in Battledress concert party and ENSA. Earlier in the war, in 1941, he was apparently performing as a comedic entertainer in a concert...
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Kavus Torabi (category Facebook ID not in Wikidata)
Allen, Chris Cutler, Charles Hayward, Bob Drake, Sanguine Hum and Stars in Battledress. During, and subsequent to, the broadcast of The Interesting Alternative...
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Janet Brown (category Burials in East Sussex)
II, Brown enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and was the first female performer to take part in Stars in Battledress. She entered British...
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before the Second World War, in repertory at Hastings. In the wartime Royal Army Service Corps, he appeared in Stars in Battledress. After the war he joined...
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her stage career in 1937, when she joined the Bristol Unity Players. During World War II, she was in Stars in Battledress performing in Italy and Austria...
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Elisabeth Kirkby (category Women local councillors in Australia)
and as an entertainer, writer and producer for Stars in Battledress. She appeared in telemovies in her native United Kingdom including Mr. Bolfrey and...
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Magill served in the Royal Corps of Signals and was a member of "Stars in Battledress". In Egypt he helped build a theatre where the company staged plays...
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