Thank you for this. Sergeant Major Williams, was based on any Warrant Officer/ASM, BSM, CSM, RSM. In most Armies throughout the world. Especially British. Loud and to the Point. Of course this was filmed way back when British comedy, was indeed just that. Comedy. Those were the days when we didn't have to fear hurting someones feelings. I am Australian indigenous/first person, and one of the funniest programs i have ever seen out of Britain, was of course "Love Thy Neighbour"
Windsor Davies was born in London but his welsh parents returned to Nant y Moel (where my grandmother was from...) at the start of the war and he worked in the coal mines. The running joke in the series is that he thinks gunner Parkin is his son !
Thank you for this. Sergeant Major Williams, was based on any Warrant Officer/ASM, BSM, CSM, RSM. In most Armies throughout the world. Especially British. Loud and to the Point.
Of course this was filmed way back when British comedy, was indeed just that. Comedy. Those were the days when we didn't have to fear hurting someones feelings.
I am Australian indigenous/first person, and one of the funniest programs i have ever seen out of Britain, was of course "Love Thy Neighbour"
Windsor Davies was born in London but his welsh parents returned to Nant y Moel (where my grandmother was from...) at the start of the war and he worked in the coal mines.
The running joke in the series is that he thinks gunner Parkin is his son !