The Wiltshire Times And News, Friday 26 October 1990, included a photograph of Sir Harry Secombe standing next to a field gun. It was titled “Gunner Seagoon,” a reference to the character of Neddy Seagoon played by Harry in the 1950s wireless show The Goons.
The caption for the photograph read:
Entertainer Sir Harry Secombe, who presents ITV’s religious programme Highway, was filming last week on and around Salisbury Plain for the show’s Remembrance Day edition.
Filming took place in the “ghost’ village of Imber, Warminster’s Copheap memorial and the ANZAC war graves at Sutton Veny.
Sir Harry, a gunner in World War Two, was also reacquainted with a familiar piece of military hardware, a twenty-five pounder field gun.