...ion = Retired [[Royal Navy]] and [[Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)|Merchant Navy]] sailor ==Fictional character biography==

...I|First World War]], yet he did work as a [[stretcher bearer]] with the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and earned a Military Medal for taking the wounded off ...Somme]], where he served with distinction as a stretcher bearer with the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]], and heroically saved several men's lives while under

...and performed on the popular BBC General Forces Programme ''[[Navy Mixture|Navy Mixture]]'' in 1944. He became an announcer with the [[British Forces Broad ...'Ave 'Em]]'' alongside [[Michael Crawford|Michael Crawford]], presenting a fictional home-improvement show.

| education = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] ...el Gummidge (TV series)|Worzel Gummidge]]'' (1979–1981, 1987–1989)|''[[The Navy Lark]]'' (1959–1977)}}

...by and starred [[Richard Murdoch]] and [[Kenneth Horne]] as officers in a fictional [[RAF station]] coping with [[red tape|red tape]] and the inconveniences an ...for the [[British Army|Army]] and ''Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh'' for the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF), all largely written and performed by serving members of

...e, the premise of the programme changed to have Handley as the head of the fictional Ministry of Aggravation and Mysteries, where he worked in the Office of [[w ...une 1941, Kavanagh had introduced more characters, and set the show in the fictional seaside town of Foaming-at-the-Mouth with Handley as its mayor, renaming th