• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (film)
  The film is based on the first volume of Milligan's war memoirs. Although it broadly follows Milligan's book, some scenes were created spec ...t [[Bexhill-on-Sea]], where he begins training to take part in [[World War II]]. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing - a
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• The Return of 'Allo 'Allo!
  ...ses on events in the 1950s, in which René is writing his memoirs after the war, and is revisited by several old faces. [[Gorden Kaye]], [[Vicki Michelle]] ...e found life in France too good to consider returning to England after the war, particularly after becoming a "fluent" French speaker.
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• Monty: His Part in My Victory
  ...eration Torch|Operation ''Torch'']], the liberation of Africa in World War II, to Milligan's embarkation for [[Allied invasion of Italy|Salerno, Italy]]. They move to various locations, some flat and barren. During one war game exercise, Milligan asks if they can "kill" themselves so they can play
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• Operation Bullshine
  During World War II, a [[Royal Artillery]] officer is assigned to an [[anti-aircraft]] [[artill Donald Sinden wrote in his memoirs:
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• The Tale of Men's Shirts
  ...ealed by the inimitable [[Spike Milligan]]. It's better than any General's memoirs!
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• Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall
  [[Spike Milligan|Spike Milligan's]] fourth volume of war memoirs, '''''Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall''''', spans the landing in [[w:All ...roup. He returns to find his pack of war souvenirs was lost, with his Nazi war loot, including an Iron Cross and pornographic photographs taken from a dea
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• "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?"
  ...o and Algeria and the [[w:Tunisia Campaign|Tunisia Campaign]] in World War II. (The preface to the earlier book states this would be a trilogy, but he wr ...hucydides|Thucydides]]. [[w:History of the Peloponnesian War|Peloponnesian War]].
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• Peter Bull
  ...nt)|HMS Raleigh]] during training in the [[w:Second World War|Second World War]], and later {{HMS|King Alfred|1939 shore establishment|6}}; he served as a ...e=7 December 1945 |supp=y |page=5987}}</ref> Returning to acting after the war, he both narrated and had a small on-screen role in ''[[Scrooge (1951 film)
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• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
  | genre = War memoirs ...ited Kingdom declaration of war on Germany (1939)|Britain's declaration of war on Germany]] to when Milligan lands in [[Algeria]] as a part of the [[Allie
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• Michael Trubshawe
  ...man for both of Niven's weddings, and is constantly referred to in Niven's memoirs ''[[The Moon's a Balloon]]''. Niven refers to finding out he would be worki * ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)|Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' (1956) - Shop Customer in Photograph (uncredited)
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• The Man Who Liked Funerals
  ...e relatives of recently departed bigwigs, whose scandalous (albeit forged) memoirs he threatens to publish. However, it all goes horribly wrong when he picks ...ng the most meritorious of the B films made in Britain between [[World War II]] and 1970. They describe it as "fresh and gently funny", "consistently amu
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• Kenneth Connor
  ...ess|Stars in Battledress]] concert party and [[ENSA|ENSA]]. Earlier in the war, in 1941, he was apparently performing as a comedic entertainer in a concer ...nce, as Mr Warren in ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series)|The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]]'' episode ''[[The Adventure of the Red Circle|The Adve
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...ait'', Hutchinson 1940 p. 41</ref> His brother [[Gilbert Frankau]], in his memoirs, states that it was "obscure" why their mother "tacked the stage-famous '[[ ...Hutchinson 1940 pp. 66–75</ref> until the [[World War I|Great War]], was a war poet and subsequently a novelist, while his daughter [[Pamela Frankau]] wou
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• Sam Kydd
  ...)|Territorial Army]] serving with the [[Queen Victoria's Rifles]] and when war broke out he was called up for active service. ...n his autobiographical book ''For You the War Is Over''.<ref>''For You The War Is Over'' by Sam Kydd - Futura, London, 1974. {{ISBN|0-85974-005-6}}</ref>
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• Edmund Blackadder
  ...He moves from a prince (''[[The Black Adder]]'') to a lord (''[[Blackadder II]]''), a knight/baronet (''[[Blackadder: The Cavalier Years]]''), a royal at ...from one of the [[closing credits]] for ''[[Head (Blackadder)|Black Adder II]]'' describes him as "a king / Although for only thirty seconds". Prince Ed
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• Tony Booth (actor)
  ...of Irish descent, and his father was a merchant seaman during [[World War II]] and Catholic convert. Tony Booth attended St Edmund's Infants School and ...st of [[Manchester]].<ref name="Fox">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/09/26/actor-tony-booth-father-in-law-tony-blair-dies-at-85.html|title=
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• List of 'Allo 'Allo! episodes
  ...wn café in Nouvion, northern France, during the German occupation of World War Two. His main day-to-day concerns should be ensuring that he doesn't disple | Title = [['Allo 'Allo! (series 4)#ep22|Prisoners of War]]
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• Deryck Guyler
  ...y Theatre and performed in numerous productions. During the [[Second World War]], he was called up and joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] bu ...ler played General Gland, soldier-scholar, campanologist and author of war memoirs, including in ''Not a Drum was Heard''. During the 1960s and 1970s, he repl
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• Frank Muir
  |battles=[[Second World War]] Muir joined the [[Royal Air Force]] at the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] and spent several years in the photographic technical school taking slow-
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• Nigel Hawthorne
  ...y]]. That same year, he starred opposite [[Clint Eastwood]] in the [[cold war]] thriller ''[[Firefox (film)|Firefox]]'', where he played a dissident Russ ...Alan Bennett]] described him in his diary: "Courteous, grand, a man of the world and superb at what he did, with his technique never so obvious as to become
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