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Webstore: Dad’s Army: Walker

Walker can get hold of anything – for a price! As a black market spiv (or ‘wholesale supplier’, as he prefers to be known…), regularly interrupts Mainwaring’s long-winded speeches. Walker is a popular if somewhat shifty member of the platoon. During the dark days of 1940, Britain was under dire threat of Nazi invasion. A…

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Webstore: Dad’s Army: Rev. Farthing & Verger

One half of the double act played with the Vicar, the Verger fawns over Reverend Farthing, often referring to him wrongly as “Your Reverence”. Clearly antagonistic of the Home Guard he often refers to them as ‘vanadals’ due to damage caused to the Church Hall in which the platoon meet following their HQ being bombed….

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Webstore: Universal Carrier

The Universal Carrier, or Bren carrier as it became popularly known, was just that – a multi-purpose, tracked and armoured vehicle that filled a whole variety of roles with all British and Commonwealth troops in every theatre of World War II. Well-loved by the men they supported, they were used to ferry troops up to…