• George A. Cooper
  ...the [[Royal Artillery]] during the Second World War, acting with the Royal Artillery Depot Players in India.<ref name="Timesobit">{{cite news|url=https://www.th ...roductions on tour. The company's permanent base became London's [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]] in 1953, the opening production being ''[[Twelfth Night]]'
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• Operation Bullshine
  ...[[anti-aircraft]] [[artillery battery|battery]] that is filled with female soldiers of the [[Auxiliary Territorial Service]]. His wife who has enlisted is mist
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• David Croft (TV producer)
  ...then underwent officer training at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College]]. [[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
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• Arthur Mullard
  | unit = Royal Artillery ...Second World War, becoming a warrant officer (sergeant major) in the Royal Artillery.<ref name=independent-obituary-arthur-mullard>{{cite news|url=https://www.i
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• Bud Flanagan
  ...ain in 1915 and enlisted as "Robert" Weintrop; he joined the [[Royal Field Artillery]], and was sent with his unit to fight in France. In the Army, he worked as ...Surrey.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/RMH/ |title=The Royal Marsden Hospital |publisher=Royalmarsden.nhs.uk |access-date=22 April 2010
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• Anthony Sharp
  ...storical drama ''The Conscience of the King'' was remounted at the Theatre Royal Windsor, starting on 14 March 1955; Sharp himself played 17th century parli ...1940 to 1946 he served with the [[Royal Corps of Signals]] and the [[Royal Artillery]] in North Africa, Italy and [[Austria]]. "Once the war was over," he recal
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• Sergeant Wilson
  | occupation = [[Bank teller|Bank Chief Clerk]]<br />[[Sergeant]], [[Royal Artillery]]<br />[[Captain]], [[Middlesex Regiment]] ...en out with other men (such as Warden Hodges, or the dashing American Army soldiers that arrived in Walmington-on-Sea), their relationship seems to be enduring
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• Bill Waddington
  ...Granada TV's ''[[Coronation Street]]''. In 1955 Bill was chosen for the [[Royal Variety Performance]], and when American stars such as [[Frankie Laine]], [ ...he war: "When you've prepared spotted dick and custard for 150 under heavy artillery fire, you can do anything," was one of his characters more memorable lines.
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• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  ...]. It starts with Milligan joining his regiment (56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery) late and immediately being singled out as a troublemaker. He learns disres ...ved when General Montgomery takes over. The regiment is also blessed with soldiers who are no use to anybody, disruptive or even mentally disturbed. These me
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• John Laurie
  ...gerty]] at the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]], then based at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], [[London]] and first acted on stage in 1921.<ref>V&A, Theatr ...d III]], [[Othello]] and [[Macbeth]]. In only his second season with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] Laurie got the chance to play [[Hamlet]], which was a
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• Dino Shafeek
  ...s and activities of a [[ENSA|concert party]] troop attached to the [[Royal Artillery]]. The series was broadcast by the BBC from 1974 to 1981 and starred [[Wind | ''[[Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers]]''
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• Harry Secombe
  ...nt, Royal Artillery|No.132 Field Regiment]] of the [[Royal Artillery|Royal Artillery]].<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne ...es of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]], [[Anne, Princess Royal|Anne]], [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]] and [[
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• Jimmy Perry
  ...phobituary"/> Demobbed and back in the UK, he trained as an actor at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] (RADA) on a serviceman's scholarship, where his c ...od]]'s [[Theatre Workshop]] as an actor working at its base, the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]].<ref name="Timesobituary"/> He remained with the company f
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• List of It Ain't Half Hot Mum episodes
  ...embers of a [[Concert Party (entertainment)|concert party]] of the [[Royal Artillery]]. The sitcom ran for eight series, which were broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1] ...takes the concert party on a jungle survival course in an attempt to make soldiers of them, but who will come out on top? Also starring [[Geoffrey Lumsden]] a
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• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
  ...Mum''''' is a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] about a [[Royal Artillery]] [[Concert Party (entertainment)|concert party]] based in [[Deolali]] in [ ...Artillery Depot in [[Deolali transit camp|Deolali]], British India, where soldiers were kept before being sent to fight at the front lines. The series used th
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• Captain Mainwaring
  ...orated [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the [[Royal Artillery]] ([[Battle of Mons|Mons]], [[Gallipoli Campaign|Gallipoli]]) during the Fi ...ned when Wilson tells an American colonel that the Home Guard are not real soldiers. Mainwaring's patriotism and eagerness to see combat tend to make him overc
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• Arthur Lowe
  ...shire he was sent out to Egypt in 1942, where he soon transferred to the [[Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]].{{sfnp|Lord|2002|p=32}}<ref name="Oli ...|2002|pp=124-125}} and Sir Davey Dunce in ''The Soldier's Fortune'' at the Royal Court Theatre (1964).{{sfnp|Lord|2002|pp=149-150}}
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• Frankie Howerd
  ...becoming a serious actor were dashed when he failed an audition for the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]. He began to entertain during [[World War II]] se [[Category:Royal Artillery soldiers]]
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• List of Dad's Army episodes
  | ShortSummary = The platoon is given a heavy naval artillery piece but the town's bandstand, a rare example of Victorian ironwork, stand ...ry = The platoon is to guard a barn near another that is the target for artillery practice and after a mix-up over map coordinates end up in the wrong one. J
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• Spike Milligan
  ...n Leo Alphonso Milligan, Meritorious Service Medal (United Kingdom), Royal Artillery (1890–1969), who was serving in the British Indian Army. He was baptised ...a signaller in D Battery (later 19 Battery), 56th Heavy Regiment, [[Royal Artillery]], as Gunner Milligan, 954024. The unit was equipped with the obsolete Firs
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