Hints and tips:
...Hector Neshumba, a 35-year-old former sergeant in 3 Brigade of the Zimbabwe National Army knows all about the military. He said he was commanded to kill a young opposition leader....
...Wells’s Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905) is himself a pleasant plucker....
...Martin Shaw’s Gently, all lugubrious meditation and unillusioned patience, contrasts nicely with his eager, puppyish sergeant....
...If the Commons pass-holder was aware of what they were up to (and looking at how these people are dressed they were not here for a pleasant meeting with an MP) they are in for a rough ride....
...The doyen of the trade at the time was Patrick Sergeant of the Daily Mail....
...Bombardier Harry Secombe watched Lance-Sergeant Milligan firing howitzers in Tunisia. Benny Hill and Howerd swapped professional compliments in a Naafi canteen....
...As a waiter leads me to the table where Alastair Morrison is sitting, I brace myself for a bone-crushing military hand grip and a sergeant-major greeting. I needn’t have worried....
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