The ranks of Walmington-on-Seas Home Guard platoon have been further depleted by the loss of another old warrior with the death of Clive Dunn.
The Dad's Army star died this week at his home in Portugal, where he had lived for 20 years, from complications stemming from an operation.
His agent, Peter Charlesworth, said he would be a real loss to the acting profession.
The 92-year-old Dunn, who specialised in playing elderly men even at the beginning of his long and varied career, was best known as Corporal Jack Jones - a bumbling Boer War and World War I veteran whose recollections of long-ago skirmishes with fearsome fuzzy wuzzies were guaranteed to incur the ire of his commanding officer, Captain Mainwaring.
Although Dunn played one of the oldest characters in the classic sitcom, originally broadcast between 1968 and 1977, he outlived nearly all of his co-stars, who included Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier. Such was the popularity of Jonesey the ageing butcher that his catchphrase "Don't panic!" normally accompanied by him jumping up and down and pointing his rifle in a state of extreme agitation, has passed into the national lexicon.