Really Interesting People

27/04/2026

Norwich, GB – 6 C

Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

obscure deaths

DIANA MELLY, aged 87 BRIAN SHERRIFF, aged 94 EVA SCHLOSS, aged 96 ANGELO GUGEL, aged 90 DAPHNE SELFE, aged 97 LESLIE MARR, aged 98 MIKE ‘LOFTY’ CARR, aged 101 ANDREE DUMON, aged 102 ROSE HANKS, aged 86 ALLAN ‘SKILL’ COLE, aged 74 PATRICIA DAWES, aged 84 VERA FRANCES, aged 95

UK 15/10/2025

ANNE PONSONBY, aged 98

After volunteering for the forces in the war, she was recruited by the SOE, playing a major role co-ordinating clandestine operations in occupied Europe.

UK 20/06/2023

JEAN ARGLES, aged 97

She worked as an SOE operative, running agents throughout the war and deciphering codes, as her sister worked with Bletchley Park and her father was in a POW camp.

Europe 11/07/2022

Red in name, red in dress, red in politics, Rossana was one of the “Terrible Girls of Rome”, in the Italian Resistance during the war. Later she was part of the SOE – code number 007. In later life she was a television producer.