War Hero in Crete = Obit

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http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/war-hero-also-excelled-in-print-20110616-1g5sx.html

 

[Phantomfixer]

Sounds like he led a very interesting life. Good on him. Doesn't sound like the John Wayne type but yet there it is. You must watch the quiet ones.

 

[MisterCairo]

These three paragraphs could only come from the obit of an Englishman:

Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was born in London on February 11, 1915, the son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, director of the Geological Survey of India. His formal education was sporadic.

A private tutor imbued him with a love of poetry and history. He was then sent to The King's School, Canterbury, from which he was expelled for holding hands with a greengrocer's daughter.

It was decided that he should be sent to Sandhurst but he drifted into the fringes of the bohemian set in London. He began to write verse and plan his walk across Europe.


Rest in Peace sir.....

 

[Italian-wiseguy]

I greatly enjoyed his book about Mani, in Greece. It describes some subtleties of the greek culture (some of which applies also to italian, and I know they're sometimes not that easy to understand) with the precision and the sympathetic curiosity of the great british voyagers.
Rest in peace!