Where is spike milligan buried

Typical Spike - a joke most people can't read. He'd have liked that. After typing In very hesitantly Fred Roper I was amazed at the photographs that came up on screen. My first in laws were actually part of Fred's midget act and the photograph of them in a line at the midget town is one I have in my own possession. It bore one word: "Spike. Then on Sunday, the cross had mysteriously gone and the angel had been restored. A local said: "God knows what's going on. Spike may be having a chuckle about it all from on high, but you'd expect one of our greatest comedians to be treated a bit better than this.

Mrs Milligan, 58, and the comic's children from previous marriages have been divided over his estate. James Milligan, a year-old events organiser, claims he was "frozen out" by the family after his father's death in February last year, and that he was not invited to the funeral in Rye or the burial in Winchelsea.

The whole situation would have amused the famous comedian, whose stock-in-trade was an iconoclastic disregard for officialdom. He once described the Prince of Wales, a close friend and lifetime fan, as a "little grovelling bastard" at a comedy awards ceremony.

Father Fred George, the locum priest at the church, said: "I would not know which one of the graves was his. The locum priest, who explained that there had been no application for a headstone in the six months since he arrived at the church, insisted it was not unusual or significant. But, for James Milligan, the comic's youngest son, the lack of stone is a sore point.

He said: "It's a total disgrace that there is no headstone at my father's grave. I've been trying for a year and a half to get one erected but with no success. James, 27, whose mother, Margaret Maughan, had an eight-year affair with the Goons creator, only met his father at the age of 16 and remains estranged from most of the rest of the family.

A modicum of research would have also discovered that other members of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard also saw active service. Frazer was a petty officer in the Navy, Wilson was a captain in the army, and Godfrey a conscientious objector who was subsequently a decorated stretcher bearer.

Admittedly, Jones was the only member of the platoon to mention his military service. Debate was duly engaged about these fictional characters' war-time heroics, and about the gradations of class that distinguished Jones and Mainwaring, Mainwaring and Wilson. But the top-note here was affection for the late Dunn, as with this comment from Spire73 :.

RIP Jonesy. A fearless old school Englishman, it's true we will never see your likes again. Goodbye and thanks for the memories. And the laughs. My review of comedian Josie Long at Soho Theatre elicited only one comment, but it was a sensible one — taking issue with my feeling that Long is too fretful about being seen to be political.