How does the poordevil decide whether he is supposed to defend his government or insist stoutly on his committee's right to see those wretched telegrams from Sierra Leone?
In one, a poordevil who is the only regular in his local bar not to have made it on to television, rights matters by throwing himself out of a nearby upper window.
The poordevil died in a stupid war which Britain blundered into, ran badly and gave the professional officer corps free hand which led to the massive unneeded slaughter infantry being mowed down by machine guns.