exleckie, I had to lecture to a group of 14-18 yr olds about the cold war. I guessed there may be some difficulty so I created a time line to show where they fitted in in the 20th century.
Unsurprisingly they had never heard of the cold war and I didn't have time to see if they knew of any other miles stones. To their credit they did recognise a Badger, Bear, SA 2, SA 3 and the Vulcan and Victor. Sorry Valiant men, in service and out again too soon.
Their chance of reading the obituary and linking that old soldier to WW1 and cavalry charges was zero.