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The Kings Own are Dispatched on an Ill-judged Mission on Soldier, Soldier By A scene from the British military drama series, ‘Soldier Soldier.’ The changes made during the aftermath of war can be just as vital, or even more so, than during times of international conflict. That’s certainly true for the title group of soldiers in ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion of The King’s Fusiliers in the military series, ‘Soldier Soldier.’ The British television show focuses on the daily lives of the fictional British Army infantry regiment, which is loosely based on the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. ‘Soldier Soldier,’ which is set in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, is a dramatization of army life in the early to mid-1990s, when the British Army was undergoing significant change. The drama series originally aired on ITV network between 1991 and 1997. ....
A WOMAN from Dalton has spoken of her excitement of learning the true nature of her grandfather s experience of the First World War 55 years on after discovering an old newspaper article covering the whole saga. Great-grandmother Elaine Raven explained that her grandfather Joseph Walter Kipling, who died when she was in her early teens, was part of the Kings Own regiment had actually suffered a bayonet to the lung which saw an end to his time at war in 1915. HAPPY: Elaine Raven as a child with her grandfather He had found himself out in no man s land at the Somme dodging bullets, when jumping down into the trench, he landed on a bayonet which pierced his left lung. ....