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Article: Five hundred pay respects to 'people's artist' Bill Billings.
- Article from:
- Milton Keynes Citizen (Milton Keynes, England)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2008
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Popular people's artist Bill Billings was a secret SAS hero - but too modest to talk about it.
The self-confessed rebel's acts of courage were only revealed at his funeral, when an SAS beret and cluster of medals decorated his coffin.
"Bill was a lifelong member of the SAS but he didn't tell anyone - he just wasn't the type to talk about himself. Even I don't know anything about what he did or where he went," said his wife Maggie.
When she met Bill almost 40 years ago he had served years in the army and, in the early days of their marriage, used to disappear on missions with the SAS.
"I never asked where he was going because I knew he ...
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