Dirk Bogarde: Captain in the Intelligence Corps, served after D-Day through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany then onto the Far East.
Ballard Berkley (The Major in Fawlty Towers) was a Special Constable in London and had a part as the Engineer onboard HMS Torrin, 'In Which We Serve'. He recalled that when the Cafe de Paris was bombed, and among many others the bandleader Snakehips Johnson was killed, looters had got there before the police and had removed fingers (and presumably rings) from the corpses, gold teeth had been knocked out and the dead generally robbed.