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  • [[Category:Fictional swordfighters]] [[Category:Fictional air force personnel]]
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  • [[Category:Fictional English people]] [[Category:Fictional World War I veterans]]
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  • ...idley himself fought at the [[Battle of the Somme]] during the First World War. ...roft, p. 36</ref> [[Arnold Ridley]] actually served during the First World War with the [[Somerset Light Infantry]], and fought in the [[Battle of the Som
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  • '''Private James Frazer''' is a fictional [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] platoon member and undertaker, first port ...e motion of the sea"). He moved to Walmington-on-Sea after the First World War, becoming the town's undertaker.
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  • ...arliest memories were of watching the soldiers marching off to [[World War I]] and witnessing their return after the Armistice in 1918. He later spoke o ...yment benefits|dole]] queues, marrying his wife Violet sometime before the war, and fathering a son, Reg.
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  • '''Lance Corporal Jack Jones''' is a fictional [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] platoon [[lance corporal]] and veteran of ==Fictional biography==
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  • '''Sergeant [[The Hon.]] Arthur Wilson''' is a fictional [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] platoon sergeant and [[Bank teller|bank c ...captain in the [[Middlesex Regiment]] whilst serving in the [[First World War]].
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  • ...arleigh''', was a young officer in the [[British Army]] during [[World War I]], a supporting protagonist in the fourth series. Both portrayals were of " ...book|first1=Ian|last1=Stewart|first2=Susan Lisa|last2=Carruthers | title = War, Culture, and the Media: Representations of the Military in 20th Century Br
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  • ...". When the car breaks down and won't start, Basil gets out and tells it, "I'm going to give you a damn good thrashing", before he starts beating it wit ...im an awkward question. (John Cleese was only 14 years old when the Korean War ended, suggesting that Basil is several years older than he.) Basil is ofte
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  • '''Edmund Blackadder''' is the single name given to a collection of [[fictional characters]] who appear in the [[BBC]] mock-historical comedy series ''[[Bl ..., set shortly after [[The Wars of the Roses]]. He is the second son of the fictional [[Richard IV of England (Blackadder)|King Richard IV of England]] ([[Brian
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  • '''Baldrick''' is the name of several fictional characters featured in the long-running [[BBC]] historic comedy television ...h phrase]] "I have a cunning plan".<ref name="bbc-quotes">{{cite web|title=I have a cunning plan|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/collections/p008rjxc/vi
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