Paddy would have been 105 today. Let’s take a moment to remember him.
Here are a few pictures from a colourful life.
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- Paddy by Mark Gerson, bromide print, February 1954 (National Portrait Gallery)
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- Patrick Leigh Fermor with Spiro and Maria Lazaros, owners of the watermill at Lemonodassos, Greece, where he first stayed in the summer of 1935 (Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive/Trustees of the National Library of Scotland)
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- Paddy after the war in Byronic costume; Filedem? Courtesy of Benaki Museum
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- Patrick Leigh Fermor with Dirk Bogarde
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- Paddy on the roof of Tara in Cairo
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- Patrick Leigh Fermor, left, met Heinrich Kreipe, his former captive, at a reunion in Greece in 1972 which included the famous Greek TV show
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- Paddy by Patrick Kidd
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- Patrick Leigh Fermor in later life
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- Patrick Leigh Femor sharing lunch with friends in Kardamyli
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- Paddy as Filedem?
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- Patrick Leigh Fermor by Nikos Ghika
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- Paddy at the house in Kardamyli. Photo by Joan Leigh Fermor, Courtesy the New York Review of Books
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- William Stanley Moss, PLF, and Manoli pose before the kindap of General Kreipe
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- Paddy, General & Mrs Kreipe, and members of the abduction gang, Greek TV 1972
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- From the left: Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, John Craxton, Barbara Hutchinson-Ghika, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Joan Leigh Fermor, 1958
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- Patrick Leigh Fermor
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- Paddy and Debo 2008
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- Debo and Paddy 2008
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- Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor,by Steve Pyke (1991)
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- Paddy disguised as a German NCO during World War II, when he and fellow Special Operations soldiers carried out the daring kidnapping of General Heinrich Kreipe
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- Paddy in 1966
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- Paddy at home in the Mani
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- Patrick Leigh Fermor in 2005 – Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
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- Moss, Kreipe and Paddy
Thank you for sharing – a life lived!
Hi, thank you for the the continuing information you supply us all on all matters PLF. My wife, the author Carol McGrath has recently written a blogpost on her visit to The Red Ox Inn in Heidelberg which includes some interesting pictures showing the interior which seems still to be as it was when Paddy visited in 1933.
Your readers may find it to be of interest. The link is: http://carolcmcgrath.co.uk/paddy-leigh-fermor-in-heidelberg/
Best wishes, Patrick McGrath ps I have some pictures of the house in Kalamitsi pre and post renovation which also may be of interest in due course…
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Happy 105th, Paddy! I’ve been re-reading “A Time of Gifts”, which is more wonderful each time.
Thank you for posting these lovely nostalgic photographs, great memories of a perfectly splendid man.
He lived the life of his most fantastic dreams .. he just ‘went for it’ and never really considered
the consequences .. ‘consequences be damned.’ Now is the time for that journey you have
always wanted to do .. well, Paddy would have done it!. He had strong feelings .. for others
as well. They threw away the mold when he died.
Brilliant To be treasured.
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