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Ritz - S6-E8

Factual error: Peter Townsend is depicted in 1945 wearing the ribbons of the DSO (which he won in 1941) and the DFC (which he won in 1940), but not the rosette indicating a bar to the DFC (which he also won in 1940) and the 1939-45 Star (which he would have been awarded in 1943).

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Ruritania - S6-E6

Factual error: The swan official is described as the Warden of the Swans. The official depicted is actually the Marker of the Swans, a different post which wears the uniform shown.

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Part 3 - S1-E3

Factual error: A British radio news bulletin refers to "Aydolf" Hitler. The British always used the original German pronunciation with a short A rather than the American pronunciation with a long A.

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Part 3 - S1-E3

Factual error: A British soldier in 1940 says he was educated at the University of Warwick. The university wasn't founded until 1965.

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Factual error: The SS commander wears the collar patch of a Hauptsturmführer (captain), but the epaulettes of an Unterscharführer (corporal).

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Factual error: Flight Sergeant Rollright wears the three chevrons of a sergeant, rather than the three chevrons and a crown of a flight sergeant.

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Factual error: Colonel Weber is not an Oberst, but an SS-Oberführer. Given all his men are also SS, there is no likelihood they would use an army rank to address him, especially one that is junior to his actual rank.

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Factual error: Ian Fleming wears First World War service ribbons. Fleming was ten at the end of the First World War.

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Show generally

Factual error: Sub-Lieutenant Baxter is wearing two rank rings without a curl. He should be wearing a single ring with a curl.

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Show generally

Factual error: The Royal Navy sailors are shown with just 'HMS' on their cap tallies. This was only seen in the Second World War for security reasons. In peacetime, the tally bears the name of the ship or shore establishment to which the rating is assigned.

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Episode #4.9 - S4-E9

Factual error: Renate escapes from the prison in a Morris Ten Four, with the badge visible on the bonnet. However, this designation was not introduced until 1935 and the episode is set in 1931.

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Factual error: The ribbons on Captain Smith's medals are incorrect. The ribbon on his Reserve Decoration should be plain green (it is green and red in the film) and that on his Transport Medal should be red and blue (it is blue and white in the film).

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Factual error: Christopher Robin and his schoolmates undergo the army medical (which he fails) at the outbreak of war. In fact, Christopher Robin had left school and was at Cambridge by the time the war broke out. In addition, those that pass the medical go off to war in privates' uniforms. As the school (Stowe) is a prestigious public school, almost all would have been commissioned and never served as privates.

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Factual error: The musicians in the (real) Band of the Coldstream Guards that plays Happy Birthday for Christopher Robin are wearing their 21st-century uniforms and medals.

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Not an Ice Cream - S1-E6

Factual error: The British Army soldiers are not wearing British Army uniforms or carrying British Army weapons and some of them have beards, which are not permitted to British Army soldiers.

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Show generally

Factual error: The survivors of the Wormhoudt massacre were not picked up by the same SS soldiers who had carried out the massacre as in the series. They were picked up by a Wehrmacht ambulance unit, which is how they managed to survive to become prisoners of war.

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Show generally

Factual error: Captain James Lynn-Allen wasn't shot by an SS officer whilst remonstrating with him about the treatment of his men. He was shot whilst trying to escape and his sacrifice allowed another soldier to successfully escape.

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Deliverance - S1-E3

Factual error: The crosses marking the graves of British soldiers outside the hospital abbreviate Private as the American "Pvt" rather than the British "Pte."

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Season 1 generally

Factual error: Jimmy Langley wears the single pip of a second lieutenant. He was actually a lieutenant at the time and should therefore be wearing two pips.

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Season 1 generally

Factual error: Harold Alexander, although his rank of major-general is correctly mentioned by the narrator, wears the rank insignia of a full general.

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