It’s a long way to the top – scale a cliff face under fire and take out seven machine guns on your own and another three with your platoon and then fight in Tobruk. After you make corporal, knock out three machine gun posts, two tanks and take 100 people prisoner and – after a few more battles they make you a lieutenant. Then get killed in battle.

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Tom Derrick - a good man to have on your side"][/caption] I happened upon this on the front page of today's Wikipedia. Tom...