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"There's an east wind coming,
Watson": Basil Rathbone, left,
and Nigel Bruce in
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror |
Using primary documents, James Cronan discusses on the UK National Archives blog the WWI
service records of actors Ronald Colman (injured by an exploding shell), Herbert Marshall (lost a leg), Claude Rains (gassed), and Basil Rathbone (decorated). They served in the same regiment, albeit at different times. The comments mention the war records of Nigel Bruce (Rath-bone's Watson) and Victor McLaglen.
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Part 1 of the blog post (Colman, Rathbone)
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Part 2 of the blog post (Rains, Marshall)
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