THEY may have been caught up in capers like interrogating captured Germans in Dad's Army and in reality some units of the home guard spent much of their time playing cards. The south east of England, ...

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A judge echoed Dad’s Army when he told a soldier who conned a vulnerable elderly woman ‘You Stupid Boy’. Callous Craig Lewis, 19, went to live with elderly Nicola Webberley before joining the army ...