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    Arthur became quite famous as a panelist on

    .... Call My Bluff.... ( wot happened to that show ? )

    Perhaps many dont know that he was at Dunkirk

    After the rapid German advance Arthur soon became a part of the Dunkirk evacuation.



    He wrote in his autobiography;

    "Absence of food, coupled with exhaustion, made the nights seem unusually cold and there is little of comfort, save protection of a sort, to be found in a sand dune. One's childhood love of sand and beaches disappeared in a trice."



    At the end of the war, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and an MBE, he returned to Oundle School as a Housemaster.



    Thinking about it, Arthur would have slotted into the cast

    of Dads Army and been at home there .

    He retired to a cottage in Devon and wrote his autobiog

    called... Life's Rich Pageant

    He died in 1989





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    Thanks lovegod...had almost forgotten Call My Bluff's dear Arthur (took over from Patrick Campbell IIRC?), but having just come over here from the "lookalikes" thread, I am reminded that I could never tell him apart from that other Arthur (Negas).



    So I'm off back there to post some pictures!

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    A very witty man. I would recommend his reviews of "books for girls" which ran in the Christmas New Statesmans in the 1950s, in which he takes a tongue-in-cheek serious look at the goings on in various fictitious hockey-stick-waving girls' boarding schools ... with hilarious results. They, and he, are mentioned at length in Frank Muir's Oxford Book of Humorous Prose. I liked him on Call My Bluff, but remain a Patrick Campbell man.

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    He was already reasonably well-known by WW2 for his radio comedy monologues in the persona of a girl's school-teacher. At Dunkirk, he led his troops to the boats with the ringing cry 'This way for the botany walk, girls'



    This is an excellent collection of his book reviews



    [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girls-Will-be-Arthur-Marshall/dp/0241890446/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268902159&sr=8-4"]Girls Will be Girls: Amazon.co.uk: Arthur Marshall: Books[/ame]



    BTW Call MY Bluff had quite a long daytime incarnation with Alan Coren and Sandy Toksvig.

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    he even wrote sketches for the stage revues that were popular in the 40s in the Hermoine Gingold era



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    he returned to Oundle School

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    (wonder if that was a girls school ? )

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