Captain Blackadder And Private Baldrick Actually Served In WWI

One of the all - time capital British comedy series , Blackadder , featured Rowan Atkinson and a cast of goofball characters jell in different historical periods . And now a military family tree website has track down the real - life counterparts of the characters who appeared in the serial ’ WWI close , Blackadder Goes Forth .

Since the get-go of the WWI centenary , Forces War Recordsnoticed a pronounced step-up in people using their site to hound family members who serve well in the war . The companionship respond by transcribing an additional 1.5 million pieces of data point , when they made a discovery .

“ We were upload unexampled entropy onto our database when we come up across a Captain Blackadder , ” says Dominic Hayhoe , the caller ’s chief operating officer . “ As fans of the television show , we wondered if we could find the military records of the other fictional characters ’ namesakes . So we challenged our team of professional researchers and military experts , who are all base in the UK so are familiar with the Blackadder series , to notice them ; which they did . The only person we have n’t been capable to get over down , so far , from World War 1 is a General Melchett . grant to the military record we have , he establish an appearance in World War 2 . ”

As the Forces War Records ’ blog notes , sports fan of Blackadder Goes Forth will be surprise by some of the similarities with the fabricated characters :

aside from the obvious similarities of surname , social station and the fact all of them served in the deep , both Lt . Georges went to Cambridge , rowed for their college , were single , joined the Army as commission officers and , it would look , were of good syndicate stock . They were also both pilots who could draw in extremely well . Tragically , both met their ends in the deep … .The two Captain Blackadders uprise up the rank and file and serve well in the British Army before the outbreak of the First World War , nail military service oversea . Both were unmarried man who agitate at the Somme in 1916 . They even share fiber traits of ‘ frigidness ’ and ‘ resourcefulness ’ which earned Robert John Blackadder the Military Cross and Edmund Blackadder many laughs for his scheme to escape the trench and various lifespan - threatening plight … The other machine characteristic the baldric have in plebeian is that both come from base backgrounds and from illiterate person home . However , unlike his video counterpart , the real Baldrick could scan and drop a line . Whether he was also a cook , entertainer , poet and player the record do not say but like Private S. Baldrick , Private J. Baldrick tragically met his ending fighting in the trenches .

The final installment of the series , “ Goodbyeee , ” boast Atkinson ’s Captain Blackadder assay to escape impending doom by pretending to be mad . It fail . As Blackadder observe before go over the trench : “ Who would have noticed another lunatic around here ? Good luck , everyone . ”

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