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Mark Hone · 13-04-2008, 02:30 PM

It turns up on Channel 4 on wet Wednesday afternoons in February every so often. It's typical of its time and interesting to compare with later films which exaggerate British/American rivalry and distrust. It also marks one of the film appearances of RSM Brittan, the 'man with the loudest voice in the British Army', who was a bit of a celebrity at one time. He featured on a record of military music which my dear old Dad owned (and which I heard again years later playing at the Sanctuary Wood Museum in Ypres!). I can still hear him booming 'Grenadier Guards... By the centre...quick march!'

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Mark Hone Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bury, Lancashire, England Posts: 309	It turns up on Channel 4 on wet Wednesday afternoons in February every so often. It's typical of its time and interesting to compare with later films which exaggerate British/American rivalry and distrust. It also marks one of the film appearances of RSM Brittan, the 'man with the loudest voice in the British Army', who was a bit of a celebrity at one time. He featured on a record of military music which my dear old Dad owned (and which I heard again years later playing at the Sanctuary Wood Museum in Ypres!). I can still hear him booming 'Grenadier Guards... By the centre...quick march!' __________________ In memory of Corporal Jack Hone (1923-2004), proud 14th Army 'Steelback'.