Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Arnold Ridley - Private Charles Godfrey. - A Real Story From Dad's Army" video.

Arnold Ridley suffered from the pain of those wounds throughout his life which may have been one of the reasons he became a playwright. Ridley had to sell the rights to The Ghost Train to cover the costs of a failed project he had worked on. He wanted to do the right thing by involved in the project and make sure everyone got what they were owed. But for that he could have retired and would have lived off the royalties of the play and would never have appeared in Dad's Army. Following the theme of medical people receiving high military awards in WW1 may I suggest you look into making a video on Captain Noel Chavasse. He was one of only three people to win the Victoria Cross twice and the only one to win both awards in the same war. World War One. He received the second award posthumously after dying of his wounds. Interestingly the first person to win the VC twice was Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake and it was he who had tried to save Captain Chavasse's life the night Chavasse died. Captain Martin-Leake had won his second VC earlier in the war. Like Captain Chavasse Captain Martin-Leake had won his VC saving a large number of wounded men.
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