This colour denotes the storyline covered by Book two (the hardback edition) issued by Titan in 2005

 13th January (June 15th 1916)-Episode Two start of sniper story. We first meet Ginger Jones and Kitchener the cat.

 20th January-June (15th 1916)-Episode Three charley saves runner Len, but he dies, Charley vows to avenge him.

 17th January (June 15th 1916)-Meet mad Mick. Lt.Thomas decides to raid the German trenches to see if the Barrage has smashed the German lines

 3rd February. (June 15th 1916) night raid-colour cover, the start of the raid on German trenches. And the first ever colour cover Joe draws for CW (the first cover was drawn by another artist)

 10th February.-(June 15th 1916) night raid charley first kills a man when he comes face to face with the sniper in the German trench. Thomas notices the German dugouts are intact but keeps quiet about it.

 17th February- (June 16th 1916)  meet lucky who Charley stops from shooting himself in the foot to escape the battle that morning we also meet Pop whose sons have been killed at the first battle of Ypres and has joined up to avenge them.

 24th February-(June 16th 1916) Colour Cover (not by Joe) Pop and Charley stop Lucky from wounding himself and Charley mistakenly rings Gas alarm. All issues are four pages long at this early stage and packed with detail, the letter narrative is at it's most ironic here.

 3rd March-- (June 16th 1916) lucky's blighty. The dugout Lucky is in is hit by a shell, and after digging him out he loses a leg and is sent home. Episode ends with Charley realising that War 'aint a game' for the first time in the strip.

 10th March-- (June 24th-July 1st 1916) Snell's hamper goes missing and Thomas turns a blind eye to the thief (charley) The night before the Battle of the Somme. 

 17th March- (July 1st 1916) first day Somme. The platoon is told the attack has been postponed and it will be 7.30am when they attack instead of dawn.

 24th March - (July 1st 1916) 'Over the top'-colour cover-great tragic issue (see Pat Mills comments on the Joe Colquhoun page) Dense detail and sad scenes as the platoon get caught on the wire and mown down by the machine gun fire.

 31st March- - (July 1st 1916) the platoon make it to the German trenches and finds a German chained to his machine gun. Pop, who is traumatised by the advance tries to Bayonet him until Charley stops him telling him that he is only a boy-the same as him.

 7th April- - (July 1st 1916) Charley and Ginger talk to the German and decide that the two sides are not much different at all. While doing so Snell shoots the boy dead. Mad Mick gets drunk and tells the platoon he wants a Picklehaube. (German spiked helmet much sought as collectables by British Soldiers)

 14th April- (July 1st 1916) the platoon takes the village of flers. Mick finds his Picklehaube but is wounded when it is boobytrapped.

 21st April - (July 1st 1916) Mick is killed when he saves the wounded by holding up the roof of a collapsing house until they escape-he is bayoneted as the Germans re-take the building and is killed. End of the first day of the Somme *BOOK ONE ENDS*

 28th April (July 14th 1916) we meet the Character lonely-the traumatised soldier of Snell's first command. The start of the 'lost platoon' saga. We also meet warrior the horse.*BOOK TWO START*

 5th may (July 14 1916)  Charley Ginger and Lonely form a ration party and get lost in no-mans land. We meet big-Rudi and Wolfe, the two Germans who capture Charley and co while they are trying to find British lines and they stumble into the Germans trench.

 12th may (July 14th 1916) While prisoners in a German dugout lonely tells the story of the lost platoon concerning snell's treachery to Germans on Xmas day and lonely's cowardice-Snell had ordered tinned food and beer to be sent over by trench catapult (early trench mortar), then on the fifth or sixth ordered Lonely to fire a real mortar. Wolfe and Rudi overhear (Rudis brother Ernst having been one of the Germans involved) Episode ends with the three about to be executed.

 19th may-(July 14th 1916) Colour Cover by Joe Colquhoun. Escape from execution after Charley wounds Wolfe with Wire picket...

 26th may - (July 14th 1916) The three hide under duckboards until a British Gas attack.

 2nd June - (July 14th 1916) to escape the gas attack they climb trees behind German lines.

 16th June -(July 14th 1916) Charley gassed, lonely has a breakdown and sees the lost platoon (see plots page) Unknowingly saves the British Cavalry from ambush by giving away their position.

 23rd June -Colour Cover by Cam Kennedy  'the horsemen of death'

 30th June-(July 14th 1916) lonely dies, killed by Wolff who is hiding in ambush for the Cavalry with Big Rudi and their company.

 7th July-(July 14th 1916) last cavalry charge of the War... Warrior runs to Charley wounded-he is about to shoot him, but warrior shakes the shrapnel free. Tragic episode that shows the rest of the Cavalry shooting their own horses in tears. Very moving.

 14th July  (July 14th 1916) On the back of Warrior Ginger and Charley escape from German lines and so ends the lost platoon story. Old Bill gives them an 'Old Bill special'-a punch on the jaw for going AWOL for so long.

 21st July (August 1st 1916) Charleys birthday and famous CW scene where the platoon have a party in gasmasks. (17th) Pop, unhinged by the battle thinks Charley is his son Billy. They are shelled by their own side and Pop is promptly killed.

 28th July (August 1st 1916) 13th runner story Thomas sends successive runners to tell the British guns to stop barrage. Charley offers and is the 13th.

 4th august (August 1st 1916) Snell, pinned down by a sniper in a sap uses Charley as a human shield. Snell refuses to read 'doubting Thomas's' message until he finishes his tea-Charley returns to the trench to find it filled with dead and under attack from the Germans.

 12th August-(August 1st1916)  Charley finds that his mates aren't dead and Thomas has disobeyed orders to hold the trench at whatever cost and pulled back to save his men's lives. They are pulled out of the line to find Thomas is under arrest to be Courts Martialed.

 19th August (August 1st 1916) we meet Weeper Watkins for the first time. The platoon go to see the wounded and run into the sadistic Sgt. Bacon MP.

 26th August (August 1916) Charley sees soldiers undergoing Field Punishment No.1 for the first time. The Company has a concert party and Charley and Co. are chorus girls.

 2nd September (August 1916) After the Concert Party Charley, Ginger and Weeper are ambushed by Bacon and other Mps and beaten up. Charley gets the better of them and they strap Bacon in a gun wheel himself. Bacon vows to get revenge.

 8th September (August 1916) Firing squad for Thomas. Charley and weeper refuse to shoot him and walk away. Thomas is shot by the rest of the platoon. They are given 28 day field punishment Number One (see Plots page)

 15th September (August 1916) Field punishment begins. Weeper is broken down by Bacon. Charley is almost broken as well, but his mates help him get over it.

 22nd September (August 1916) German air raid begins

 29th September (August 1916) German air raid starts while the two are on the wheel, Bacon leaves them to burn as the ammunition catches alight, they escape and the now wounded Bacon dies.

 6th Oct (August 1917) Weeper wounded. Charley and Ginger see Tanks for the first time

 13th October-(September 1916) Full Colour Joe Colquhoun Cover 'the tanks are coming!The platoon enters the line again. Gingers death by a stray shell (see the subjects and plots page)

 20th October-(September 1916) Charley has to bury Ginger. Shell shock sets in.

 27th October-(September 1916) Ginger haunts Charley in nightmares. These issues are high art. (See subjects page)

 10th November-Unexplained missing CW in this issue (nothing mentioned in Captain Hurricanes page)

 17th November Here we meet Oliver-Charleys Brother-in-law who turns out to be a money obsessed coward. He sticks to Charley like a leach and refuses to go over the top.The Strip is still running at four pages with unbelievable detail at this point.

24th November-Colour Cover (not by Joe Colquhoun) Oily, with a sandbag strapped to his back crawls out into no-mans land and to what he thinks is safety (its not) in his attempt to desert. Charley has to save him when he crawls straight into a German trench.

 1st December (September 1916). We meet 'wild eyes'-the neurotic and brilliantly funny tank commander and his tank Donner and Blitzen which breaks down. Charley helps to get it started and becomes part of his crew along with the hapless Oiley as gunner, as it attacks the village of Flers. Anyone whose ever read the history of the Somme will recall the famous newspaper headline the next day-"British tank seen in the main road in Flers" -The 'Donner and Blitzen' is this tank.

 8th December (September 1916) The Tank attacks the German artillery. Metal chips from the Machine gun fire wounds Charleys face.

 15th December (September 1916) Oliver accidentally machine guns British troops from the tank.

 22nd December (September 1916) wild eye's tank attacks the Village of Flers

 29th December (September 1916) the tank is damaged by a cluster grenade and is on fire as it slews out of control towards the church in flers.

 

3rd January 1981(March 1917)- Lacey's sentence passed by Blue, who makes him run out of fort to throw back water bottles to men inside. Lacey cut down, and Blue takes water to wounded.

10th January 1981 (March 1917)-The men in the fort are half-crazed with thirst, despite the heavens opening above ground. Germans taunt Krotowski through observation cupola slit. Colour Cover

17th January 1981(March 1917)- A lieutenant, half-mad with thirst, tries to blow up the grenade store. The legionnaires are given permission to breakout as they will get no mercy from the Germans, Fort Vaux surrenders.

24th January 1981 (March 1917)-The French go to the relief of Fort Vaux, without realising it has been captuered. One soldier survives from an entire regiment. Colour Cover.

31st January 1981 (March 1917)-Drag Man corners Blue and CB at the house. CB and Blue escape in fog after fighting MPs, but are caught between the Drag Man and Charley's father who is a Special.

7th February 1981(March 1917)- CB and Blue avoid the Drag Man, head to Alf Shiner's Pie and Mash - Blue's childhood of crime - cornered in pie shop by Drag Man

14th February 1981 (March 1917)-The Line of Panic, Ratcatcher is killed

21st February 1981 (March 1917)-Attack driven off, but Blue is badly gased

28th February 1981 (March 1917)-In hopsital, Blue tries to escape to avoid getting the Croix de Guerre (usually given to the dead or dying). Monkey Face angry at being made to look a fool.

7th March 1981 (March 1917)-Bleating soldiers go to the front. Arrival of the feared Senegalese

14th March 1981(March 1917)- Senegalese sent into attack for first time on Western Front, but they risk annihilation as they have never come across machine guns before. Legionnaires leave trenches against orders to go to their aid.

21st March 1981(March 1917)- Blue and Senegalese hold off Germans in trench with coupe-coupe machetes. Monkey Face has Blue arrested and sent to a penal unit. Drag Man has coughing fit (he was badly gassed) and they escape

28th March 1981 (March 1917)-CB runs out in front of tram, but is caught by cage underneath and is unharmed. Get Blue's false papers off Oiley and go to music hall. Oiley shops them to MPs.

4th April 1981 (March 1917)-Cornered in music hall, CB and Blue run to the Thames. Pursuing Drag Man collapses and dies. Blue decides to reinlist under new name and escapes back to France. End of Blue sub-plot

11th April 1981 (March 1917)-CB goes in pursuit of Oiley after he and Snips cheat Ginger's mother out of money, using a fake clairvoyant to talk to Ginger's spirit.

18th April 1981 (March 1917)-Oiley and crooked pilot crash plane to siphon off petrol. CB takes money and repays Ginger's mum. Farewell to family and back to France Colour Cover

25th April 1981  (April 1917)- Return to France. Old buses used to transport soldiers are a death trap, Old Bill blows them up with grenades after a fellow sergeant is killed.

2nd May 1981  (April 1917)- Old Bill blows up buses under cover of bombardment. Arrival of conscripts, much to bullying veteran Grogan's annoyance. Return of Captain Snell. Colour Cover

9th May 1981  (April 1917)- CB escorts POWs. Irate Snell orders CB and POWs over the top so that he can walk down the trench. Most of the POWs die by their own machine gun fire.

16th May 1981  (April 1917)- Return of Weeper as officer's batman. Charley enraged by Snell's patronising attitude to OR mail as he censors letters home

23rd May 1981  (April 1917)- Grogan picks on the Scholar, a bookish conscript. Grogan knifes a downed German pilot. Colour centre pages

30th May 1981  (April 1917)- Down the Menin Road towards Hellfire Corner. CB saves Warrior from one of Snell's bullets.

6th June 1981  (April 1917)- Grogan throws Scholar's poetry books into No Man's Land and Scholar goes over the top. CB rescues the Scholar.

13th June 1981  (April 1917)- Snell sends batman, Trotters to fetch bath water from rusty pump above parapet. Trotters is wounded, Curly is killed and Snell sends CB out to use the pump

20th June 1981  (April 1917)- CB pumps water, under cover of shellfire and becomes Snell's batman

27th June 1981  (April 1917)- Officers shoot at German stretcher parties in No Man's Land for sport. Brings inevitable retaliation from German side. Company punishments for Smith 70 and Grogan.

4th July 1981  (April 1917)- Snell's cricket match comes under fire and he reluctantly calls it off, when the padre intervenes after a man is killed. Snell is more concerned about losing to the other ranks.

11th July 1981  (April 1917)- Smokey cons two soldies into sharing his bunk to catch measles, for a fee. A mortar bomb hits the dugout and the pair shield Smokey from the blast. Smokey never had the measles.

18th July 1981  (April 1917)- Grogan turns on gas oojahs to put wind up Scholar as he is on guard duty. CB turns them off, but is accused of sabotage by Snell.

25th July 1981  (April 1917)- Lt Cooper vouches for Charley. Grogan's green brass buttons give him away. Grogan and he have a vicious fight in the old front line. Grogan ups the ante when he picks up some unexploded munitions.

1st August 1981 (April 1917)-  Grogan chucks unexploded munitions at Charley, but is killed when a `plum pudding' fizzes back into life and goes off. CB becomes a runner for Snell

8th August 1981  (April 1917)- Charley survives his run, but is castigated by Snell for not being turned out correctly.

15th August 1981  (May-June 1917)-March out of the line in the summer's heat. The men cannot drink from a well because a corpse poisons the water.

22nd August 1981 (May-June 1917)-Old Bill drops out of the march, and Snell busts him to private. Charley serves Snell cooked rat for dinner

29th August 1981 (May-June 1917)-Trip to town with Weeper. Warrior is painted brown and Charley `accidentally' spills dye on Snell's saddle.

5th September 1981 (May-June 1917)-Snell's breeches are covered in brown dye as is made to look a fool in the officer's mess. Vents his fury on Charley

12th September 1981 (May-June 1917)-Cooper saves Charley from a thrashing. The stables are bombed

19th September 1981 (May-June 1917)-Charley saves Warrior and takes the horse to the Blue Cross. He is stolen.

26th September 1981 (May-June 1917)-Harry `Happy' Day, and his holes - shell-shocked, he digs holes to try and find his wounded mate buried alive on the Somme

3rd October 1981 (May-June 1917)-Messines Ridge - CB and Old Bill play Crown and Anchor. Charley realises that Scholar is a twerp

10th October 1981(May-June 1917)- Move back up to the line, Old Bill sozzled. Smokey killed by a minenwerfer canister. Colour cover based on the photograph used for the 2004 release.

17th October 1981 (May-June 1917)-CB and co join the Claykickers - the navvies and coalminers digging huge mines under the Messines Ridge for the last 18 months. Meet Ganger Green.

24th October 1981 (May-June 1917)-Scholar sucks up to Snell - Snell refuses to let soldiers shelter in his mine, during a bombardment and they are killed. Colour twin centre pages

31st October 1981 (May-June 1917)-German observation balloon spots deposits of blue clay above ground, so they know there are British mines. A German sap blows up collapsing the mine head. Colour Cover

7th November 1981 (May-June 1917)-CB, Earwig, Scholar and Budgie trapped by fall.

14th November 1981 (May-June 1917)-Earwig cracks as waters rise. They tell stories to take minds off plight. Budgie tells how he was a conscientious objector, but his will not to fight was broken after months of harsh punishments by MPs.(Colour cover) 

21st November 1981 (May-June 1917)-Digging is heard - they are rescued just in time, but the Germans break through simultaneously.

28th November 1981 (May-June 1917)-Fight with German miners. Ganger Green blows up the sap and himself. CB about to be clobbered by German with pickaxe.

5th December 1981(May-June 1917)- Budgie kills German, saves CB but is racked with guilt. The perils of being an amanol (explosive) carrier. Colour cover

12th December 1981 (May-June 1917)-Zero hour and all the mines go up - except Snell's. Snell shoots Budgie, believing he is a saboteur. Goes down the mine to set it off, even though the delay means blowing up the advancing British troops.

19th December 1981 (May-June 1917)-Charley goes after Snell to kill him. Snell hit in the head by ricochet. Lt Cooper and Sapper Reeves had gone down the mine with the same intentions. Snell discovered to be still alive but invalided out. Colour Centre pages

26th December 1981 - (May-June 1917)-the results of the mines explosions, with a colour cover of tanks attacking at Messines.  Charley and co go over the top after
the assault waves, Earwig spots a badly wounded German and crushes his
skull with the butt of his rifle, because `He looks like my old
schoolteacher.  I never liked him anyway', much to Charley's disgust.  The
descend into a crater where they examine a mammoth bones, surrounded by
flint axe heads much to Cooper's delight.  CB comments on how far war
progressed in a typical piece of Mills irony.

2nd January 1982 (August 1917)-Wilf trained by Oiley to take place of one of his deserters. Old Bill gets his stripes back. Strip is a more managable length now, three full pages when black and white, two and a half when there is colour cover, or colour centre pages, still takes Joe Colquhoun five full working days to complete.

9th January 1982 (August 1917)-CB dreams he is caught on the wire. SIWs to be in first wave. Charley stops man from waving legs above parapet in order to be wounded in the feet. He blows his brains out. (colour cover)

16th January 1982 (August 1917)-Over the top, 3rd Ypres. Charley caught on wire, but rescued by Sadders, blow up dugouts. Real defences in second line (blockhouses and mantraps) platoon Captain killed.

23rd January 1982 (August 1917)-Blockhouses attacked and surrender, only for Germans to change their minds and open fire. No quarter given. Colour Cover Terrible use of mantraps is graphically shown.

30th January 1982 (August 1917)-4 days of rain turns battlefield into quagmire. Sadders, Little Ernie & CB seek out `better hole' only to be beaten to one by Earwig. Earwig's shellhole is soaked in mustard gas, and he gets a Blighty wound. (colour centre pages)

6th February 1982 (August 1917)- German counterattacks beaten off by aid of counterbarrage. Charley finds Wilf face down in mud beside his battered lewis gun. Colour Cover.

13th February 1982 (August 1917)-Takes Wilf to first aid post. Falls in shellhole whilst avoiding Battle Police and becomes stuck fast in liquid mud. Colour Cover

20th February 1982 (August 1917)-Shellhole with Black Angus, sinking slowly. Rescued by passing Scots Angus realises that CB has kept him alive through anger. Colour Cover Charley is given field punishment for having a speck of mud on his rifle sight is the epilogue

27th February 1982 (August 1917)-Arrive at Etaples training camp and meet the Ferret, an Army Instructor (Canary) in the Bullring

6th March 1982 (August 1917)-Harsh training - the Ferret picks on Charley and Sadders during bayonet practice on the beach.

13th March 1982 (August 1917)-Charley becomes first marksman - goes to see Wilf at hospital but he has been discharged and joined the RFC

20th March 1982(August 1917)- Flame-thrower and gas training, boy soldier shoots a Canary, after being bullied by the Canary in charge. Ferret accuses platoon of attempted mutiny when he hears the news and pulls his revolver on them.

27th March 1982(August 1917)- Captain Mackenzie (blue in disguise) diffuses the situation, CB escapes into town, but a train bears down on him as he crosses the tracks. (colour cover)

3rd April 1982 (August 1917)-CB meets the sandbaggers (army deserters), led by the bowler-hatted Gunboat. Fights Gunboat and bumps into Weeper who is living in disguise with a Frenchwoman. Sandbangers incidently are named after their chice of weapon- Rocks wrapped up by sandbags used as a cosh.

10th April 1982 (August 1917)-Heads back to camp, volunteered for `special duties' by the Ferret

17th April 1982 (August 1917)-`Special duties' are the firing squad. - 1st Americans killed in the war during an air raid (colour cover)

24th April 1982 (August 1917)-Young soldier executed. CB chopping frozen meat. Gunboat and co arrive to pilfer supplies. Gunboat threatens CB with a cleaver, but Mackenzie intercedes again. It is Blue in disguise.

1st May 1982 (August 1917)-Weeper is caught. Charley goes for a swim. A popular, Scottish corporal, Wood, is shot by an MP and mortally wounded, and the real life events of the mutiny at Etaples is told with Charley inserted into the events.

8th May 1982 (September 1917)-The Mutiny begins. The Ferret catches CB swimming, but a mob of Scots, Australians and New Zealanders give him a hiding. The senior officers are thrown into the river.

15th May 1982 (September 1917)-CB and platoon of loyal soldiers are sent to guard a bridge into town. The mob want to pass so that they can pursue the MP, Reeve, into town and lynch him. An ugly stand-off ensues. see the the scripts section

22nd May 1982 (September 1917)-The platoon lieutenant avoids a blood bath and lets the soldiers pass. Reeve is found under a bed. Next day, the troops refuse to take part in drill in the Bull Ring and a sit-down strike takes place.

29th May 1982 (September 1917)-Old Bill berates the men, but they will not fall in, so he joins them. The men's grievances are heard. Charley and Blue storm the stockade and Weeper and other prisoners are freed. great colour cover.

5th June 1982 (September 1917)-Mutiny continues. Cavalry refuse to come to officers' help and the mutineers' demands are met.

12th June 1982 (September 1917)-Blue tells Charley about the French Mutiny after the disastrous Nivelle Offensive, and its bloody suppression. Weeper is rumbled as an ex-prisoner, and takes a blow to the head from an entrenching tool.

19th June 1982 (September 1917)-Charley takes Weeper to Sanctuary (the deserters' hideout). Gunboat has been captured and is leading the Special Branch man and MPs to the cave. Charley is accused of leading the police on to them.

26th June 1982 (September 1917)-Weeper is fatally stabbed by Gunboat. Blue spots the mark of the irons on Gunboat's wrists and knifes him. The deserters escape and the Bullring is closed down. CB returns to the front.

3rd July 1982 (October 1917)-Passchendaele - Jonesy, a member of the firing squad is bothered by his conscience and kills himself by standing on the parapet during a barrage. CB becomes a Strecher Bearer to salve his conscience.

10th July 1982 (October 1917)-Meet L/Cpl `Dad' Coles, Ecky (who has a habit of looting from the dead) and Jack (the son of an arms baron, who wants to repair some of the damage done by his father's shells).

17th July 1982 (October 1917)-First carry, through the quagmire. The casualty dies.

24th July 1982 Joe Colquhoun has a heart attack and recovers in hospital - Rerun of 1st episode

31st July 1982 Rerun of episode 2 Joe Colquhoun ill.

7th August 1982 Rerun of episode 3 Joe Colquhoun ill.

14th August 1982 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe Colquhoun ill.

21st August 1982 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe Colquhoun ill.

28th August 1982 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe Colquhoun ill.

4th September 1982 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe Colquhoun ill.

11th September 1982 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe Colquhoun ill.

18th September 1982 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe Colquhoun ill.

25th September 1982 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe Colquhoun ill.

2nd October 1983 (October 1917)- CB and co run out of morphine. Charley catches Ecky swapping tablets for souvenirs and beats him up.

9th October 1982 (October 1917)- Into battle, CB has his work cut out. Meet Dr No again. Charley saves colonel's life through giving blood.

16th October 1982 (October 1917)-CB rescues East Lancashire soldier on the wire and is given FF5,000. Smith 70's machine gun gives off steam and he is hit by fire shell.

23rd October 1982(October 1917)- CB pushes Smith Seventy into water-filled shell hole to avoid fire shells. Young Albert finally gets to fire the Vickers. Great amusing scene where Albert pulls the triggers and laugh manically creaming 'at last' Accused of stealing from the dead.

30th October 1982 (October 1917)-A German prisoner, Kat, vouches for Charley. Kat and CB's `wheelbarrow' technique of carrying the wounded. Gas attack and Kat has no mask, and they fight for Charley's gas helmet.

6th November 1982 (October 1917)-Kat takes shelter from gas in a pillbox and is unharmed, but the Germans take the trench, shooting the British out of hand. Charley can survive but only if he licks Kat's boots first.

13th November 1982 (October 1917)- Kat humiliates Charley, and stuffs a grenade down his battle tunic. It is a dud, and an enraged Charley picks up a rifle and bayonets Kat.

20th November 1982 (October 1917)- Charley gives one of the first blood transfusions and two shell shock cases help Charley understand Dr No..

27th November 1982 (October 1917)-Douglas Haig appears in this issue and inspects the wounded- not the bad cases though in case they might upset

4th December 1982(October 1917)- CB meets American surgeon. Fails test and is thrown out of SBs. Old Bill and Smith Seventy in hospital.

11th December 1982 (October 1917)-Plane is downed in No Man's Land and CB goes to rescue of the observer.

18th December 1982 (October 1917)-The final carry: Charley and Jack go in aid of the observer, Fred Green. Jack, Dad Coles and Ecky killed by shell and Charley has to carry Fred by himself.

25th December 1982, Charley's last carry - he tries to get three Germans to
help him, they scarper when they hear they will have to go to Hellfire
Corner.  CB finds a wheelbarrow to wheel Fred.  They then get hit by a shell.

8th January 1983(October 1917)- Flash-forward to 80s, Fred's mind goes back to 1917 and he suddenly remembers Charley's name. His mate met him in 1918, so he knows that he survived the explosion. Mills tantalisingly fails to tell us if he survived the War! Great idea, great couple of issues taking in some of the lasting damage to mental state of veterans even 70-80 years later.

15th January 1983 (October 1917)-The tank battle of Cambrai and the jubilation at home.

22nd January 1983 (October 1917)-The tank men press on, but the generals do not exploit the breach - the attack falters.

29th January 1983 (November 1917)-The Bantams fight the Prussian Guards at Bourlon Wood - Cambrai fails.

5th February 1983 (November 1917)-The return of Scholar as the platoon commander. Charley becomes No 2 to Len Southgate, ex-poacher and sniper. We meet the wily Corporal Hitler.

12th February 1983 (November 1917)-Cpl Hitler and mates in dugout complain about the British sniper who is taking a heavy toll in their company. Hitler fights a defeatist soldier.

19th February 1983 (November 1917)-CB and Len in snipers' position. They hand over to another sniper team who ignore their advice to lie low for a while, and are both killed by an elephant gun.

26th February 1983 (November 1917)-Charmed life of Cpl Hitler. Hitler takes place of shirking colleague and volunteers to deliver a message. He is about to wander into CB's sights as he lies in No Man's Land.

5th March 1983 (November 1917)-German officer sends Hitler back and the original runner takes his place only to be hit by Charley. The Germans' Alsatian gives Charley's position away.

12th March 1983 (November 1917)-Charley underfire in No Man's Land from grenade crossbow. Len helps him escape. The Germans swear revenge.

19th March 1983 (November 1917)-German sniper kills Sadders and numerous soldiers. No one can spot his hiding position.

26th March 1983 (November 1917)-Sniper continues to menace the British. CB and Len pilfer fire wood, Charley twigs where the German is hiding.

2nd April 1983 (November 1917)-The sniper is using a hollowed out tree in No Man's Land. It is conspicious because it has not been cut down for firewood. German sniper is blown up.

9th April 1983 (November 1917)-Hitler and co in café behind the lines, are hit by long-range shooting by Smith 70. Vow to take revenge in trench raid.

16th April 1983 (November 1917)-CB and Len take on raiding party in No Man's Land, they attack British trench and take Ernie Stubbs prisoner. This scene is based on a description in Stuart Cloette's book of seeing the Bantams in trenches opposite the six foot Prussian Gaurds and talks of a big prussian gaurd tucking a bantam under his arm and running away with him on a trench raid. CB and Hitler fight.

23rd April 1983 (December 1917)-Germans fought off, but AH throws grenade which kills Ernie. Local Xmas truces break out.

30th April 1983 (December 1917)-Len cannot bring himself to shoot the German messenger Alsatian on Xmas Eve.

7th May 1983(December 1917)- Bruening's wife is expecting a baby and he wants to start a truce. He wanders into No Man's Land and Charley does the same. Both sets of soldiers meet in No Man's Land to swap booze and food.

14th May 1983 (December 1917)-Feldwebel Kropp and Sgt Old Bill Tozer fall out over the retreat from Mons and have a punch-up - the truce ends.This is a great issue that makes a point of the similarity between the two men, who in other times would be friends. 

21st May 1983 (January 1918)-Wilf Bourne is a trainee observer in the RFC and is observer to the dangerous Captain Morgan who has lost three observers already.

28th May 1983 (January 1918)-Wilf is attacked by the triplanes of Richthofen's Flying Circus, but his gun jams.

4th June 1983 (January 1918)-Wilf and Morgan down a Fokker Triplane. Morgan lands so they can take the dead pilot's riding boots as a trophy.

11th June 1983 (January 1918)-WB trying to qualify as an observer. Mechanic and layabout, Janker, tricks him into reassembling an engine for him. Morgan loses his fourth observer.

18th June 1983 (January 1918)-Shooting down observation balloons, the Brisfit is hit, Morgan uncoscious and the plane goes into a death dive.

25th June 1983(January 1918)- Wilf pulls the aeroplane out of the dive. Morgan has new respect for Wilf and puts him forward for artillery spotter training.

2nd July 1983 (January 1918)-As Morgan recovers from his wound, Wilf flies with Lt. Costello. Costello gets windy and returns before Wilf can finish calling artillery fire down on the correct positions. Wilf is blamed for bad work.

9th July 1983(January 1918)- Dogfight and Costello runs for home. A furious Morgan goes in pursuit in order to shoot Costello down.

16th July 1983 (January 1918)-Morgan calms down, but they confront Costello on their return and Wilf is made to sew a yellow cloth on Costello's tunic.

23rd July 1983 (January 1918)-China tells WB how he got his face plate in a plane crash. China goes up in a repaired Brisfit which comes apart in midair.

30th July 1983 (January 1918)-Janker has botched the repair on the wingspar. Wilf does photographic reconnaissance and is recommended for Observer's wing.

6th August 1983 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe is possibly on Holiday.

13th August 1983 (January 1918)-Wilf gets his corporal stripes and observer's wing. Initiation ceremony. Mechanics try to kill Janker.

20th August 1983 (January 1918)-Morgan overhears Wilf and Janker and tells them that they are both for the high-jump after they return from the mission. Janker is thrown into a revolving propellor by a vengeful mechanic.

27th August 1983 (January 1918)-Morgan follows a stricken German plane down towards the ground, and is hit by ground fire. Wilf uses emergency controls to land the plane, but Morgan is dead.

3rd September 1983 (Febuary 1918)-CB makes a remark about wounding himself in order to get to go home. CB opens Scholar's package by mistake which contains foolish-looking body armour. Humiliated, the Scholar vows to get even.

10th September 1983 (Febuary 1918)-CB saves a soldier doing Field Punishment under fire, but fails to retrieve a dead German from No Man's Land using grappling hooks. Scholar tries to charge him, but a senior officer comes to CB's aid.

17th September 1983 (Febuary 1918)-S, CB & Lt Dowd go to `the Wart' an OP, against CB's advice as it is under watch by an enemy balloon. CB walks so as not to draw attention to himself but S runs. CB accidentally shoots himself in the foot.

24th September 1983 (Febuary 1918)-CB accused of having a SIW. In hospital awaiting a court martial. Lt Dowd, badly wounded, will testify on his behalf. Meets Nurse Kate Wincer who hates CB for being a coward, gives him a white feather.

1st October 1983 (Febuary 1918)-Court Martial day. Kate hears that Dowd will support Charley's story and apologies for her behaviour. CB is in mood for reconciliation. The court room and Charley hears that Dowd has died in his sleep.

8th October 1983 (Febuary 1918)-CB looks like he will be court-martialled. A late written testimony is submitted by Dowd and CB is exonerated whilst Scholar is criticised for his own cowardice. Charges are dropped. Invalided to Ripon.

15th October 1983 NO CHARLEY'S WAR No reason for its absence in Captain Hurricane

22nd October 1983 NO CHARLEY'S WAR

29th October 1983(Febuary 1918)- Wilf takes on a giant Zeppelin Staaken bomber. Convalescent home in Yorkshire, CB and co still have to do drill. Runs into Kate. A mysterious figure spots Charley from a barred-cell.

5th November 1983 (Febuary 1918)-Giant bomber attack on London. Kate and Charley falling for each other. Mysterious figure in bushes - it is the deranged and psychotic Snell.

12th November 1983 (Febuary 1918)-Snell leaps out and tries to throttle Charley. Flashback to Messines and Snell's injury. Snell sees CB as his nemesis.

19th November 1983 (Febuary 1918)-Snell escorted back to cell. Kate says he was recovering well and that they hope to send him back to the front. Charley tells her about Snell's past. Wilf turns up on his motorbike.

26th November 1983 (Febuary 1918)-Snell hides knife in his jacket and Kate takes him out for a stroll. Wilf and Charley go for a motorbike ride when the wheel starts to come off. Snell makes a break for the gate.

3rd December 1983 (Febuary 1918)-Wilf and Charley dust themselves down after falling off bike. Snell stabs soldier on the gate and runs at Kate. CB and WB arrive in the nick of time and Charley throws himself at Snell who is overpowered.

10th December 1983 (Febuary 1918)-Snell locked up for good. Wilf returns to London hoping to down a giant bomber and win a pilot's commission. Trip to Scarborough and CB proposes to Kate. Asks her parents for Kate's hand in marriage.

17th December 1983 (7th March 1918)-Charley and Kate's wedding day. Air raid Jack and all the family are there including CB's Mum and Dad and Brother-in-law Oliver.

24th December 1983 (7th March 1918)-Oiley's private air raid shelter. Wilf shoots up a Zeppelin giant and it heads towards a balloon apron.

31st December 1983 (7th March 1918)-The plane cuts through the apron. Wilf's burst had killed the pilots, but a German gunner kills Wilf and his pilot. The bomber crashes back at its base. CB and Kate return from honeymoon for Wilf's funeral.

14th January 1984 (March 1918)-Jack's ship, `HMS Kent' lost it's sister ship to the `Nurnberg'. Jack heads towards the Falklands in 1914. Jack falls foul of Navy discipline and Stoker `Grizzly' Morgan to whom he owes money

21st January 1984 (March 1918)-Kent refuels at the Falklands - meanwhile the Nurnberg and a battle fleet are heading towards the islands to invade them.

28th January 1984 (March 1918)-Two dreadnoughts are waiting for the Germans who turn tail and run. The `Scharnhorst' sacrifices herself to save the rest of the fleet.

4th February 1984(March 1918)- Kent chases the Nurnberg, burning anything on board to catch up with the German cruiser.

11th February 1984 (March 1918)-The British cruiser catches the Nurnberg and opens fire. Return fire pierces Jack's turret setting fire to the cordite cases inside as flames shoot down the shell hoist chute.

18th February 1984 (March 1918)-The ships exchange fire and the Nurnberg is close to surrender.

25th February 1984 (March 1918)-The Nurnberg lowers its colours, but the Germans strike their colours and open fire.

3rd March 1984 (March 1918)-The Kent finishes off the Nurnberg and the ship sinks with its entire crew. Oiley and co drop Jack off at Chatham. Oiley has been called up again.

10th March 1984 (March 1918)-German Spring Offensive. CB has been promoted to L/Cpl. German Stormtroopers attack and Scholar is set on fire by a flamethrower.

17th March 1984 (March 1918)-Skin puts Scholar out of his misery. The redoubt is surrounded and the section is captured.

24th March 1984 (March 1918)-Charley kills the Unteroffizer and leads a breakout. They head towards the sound of tanks in the fog.

31st March 1984 (March 1918)-The tanks are German-manned. CB and co escape and bump into Nobbler White, a cockney in a kilt. They free an 18pd from the mud as Uhlans approach.

7th April 1984 (March 1918)-Charley recognises `Warrior' amongst the gun team. They fight the Uhlans but CB runs out of ammo as a German bears down on him.

14th April 1984 (March 1918)-Skin saves Charley. The 18pd fire at point-blank range, but the gun crew are killed. CB and co take over, directed by the wounded RHA officer. Warrior is hit.

21st April 1984(March 1918)- They knock out the tank and CB shoots Warrior. Skin is acting suspiciously. They enter the town of Albert and run into a group of looters.

28th April 1984 (March 1918)-Charley organises the defence. Skin is suspected of being a spy. The German marines break in to Albert and take no prisoners. Skin shakes hands with a German soldier.

5th May 1984 (March 1918)-He is Skin's brother, but is shot. Skin's (Skorczyk) parents are from Silesia. His brother was visiting relatives in Germany and was called up there. Skin impersonates his brother and saves men.

12th May 1984 (April 1918)Charley and co back in the Somme area having pulled back 40 miles. Old Bill read the `Backs to the Wall' communique from Haig. Attack of the first German panzers.

19th May 1984 (April 1918)The tank `Elfreide' is pushed into a sandpit. Attack by hundreds of stormtroopers.

26th May 1984  (May 1918)-Charley and co fight stormtroopers. Arrival of light tanks. Charley rescues crew of an overturned Renault only to find he has rescued Captain Snell. End of the Spring Offensive.

2nd June 1984 (May 1918)-Charley now a corporal. Doughboys - Meet Pigiron, a corporal from the Hell's Fighters raised in Harlem. Americans go into attack led by French officers but when things go wrong, CB and co go to help.

9th June 1984 (summer 1918)-CB and Pigiron charge a German machine-gun nest. Out of line they fight two bullying US soldiers. A mystery figure fires at them as they leave a café.

16th June 1984 (summer 1918)-Pigiron is shot dead and the murderer escapes. Lt Conway saw Snell shoot the Cpl. Conway is shot in the back by Snell during a battle.

23rd June 1984 (summer 1918)-JB is missing after the Zeebrugge Raid. CB goes into a village, but is ambushed by German commandos. He is sent back to say that the village is clear and to lead them into a trap. CB shouts a warning.

30th June 1984 (summer 1918)-Charley survives and Snell ambushes the Stosstrupps. The German CO tries to make his escape in an armoured car but is blown up. Charley is blown into the river and captured by Germans.

7th July 1984(summer 1918)- In the POW camp. The sadistic Unteroffizer Guttenheim. Charley is reunited with Jack.

14th July 1984 (summer 1918)-Charley works down a coal mine. CB and JB swap clothes with German miners and escape. Tracked down by Guts

21st July 1984 (summer 1918)-Charley shows the tunnel diggers how to dig claykicking style. Guts rumbles the tunnel and Charley kills him.

28th July 1984 (summer 1918)-Guts is not dead. Charley and Jack fake influenza and are buried outside the wire, but Charley thinks he is buried alive.

4th August 1984 (summer 1918)-CB is rescued by Jack and they board a train pretending to be Belgian workers. Guts is on the train, but they leap off. Guts dies when leaning out of the train. Three days later they reach British lines.

11th August 1984 (November 1918) - attack on Albert Canal. Two of CB's comrades die of flu.

18th August 1984  (November 1918) Enter a mined village. Smith 70 and Young Albert roar up on motorcycle combination and beat off attack.

25th August 1984  (November 1918) Bridgelaying tank aids attack. Snell puts captured Germans in cellar and throws a grenade into it. He then shoots an enraged Skin dead.

1st September 1984 (November 1918)  Valenciennes. Old Bill flushes out a sniper in the railway station.

8th September 1984  ( 11th November 1918) Last day of the war. Snell is determined to reach Mons with an hour to go. Men are cut down leaving CB and Snell to fight it out.

15th September 1984 ( 11th November 1918) Fight on slag heap. Snell tells CB that he has `volunteered' him for Russia. An acid sprayer gets Snell and CB walks away refusing to put him out of his misery. Old Bill has survived and is off to Russia, too.

22nd September 1984 NO CHARLEY'S WAR Joe on a weeks holiday

29th September 1984 START OF THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1919. (September 1919)-Archangel front. CB and co throw useless White Russian troops out of trench. Meet Percy, TT Sloane and Grouchy Spencer. British take wooden blockhouses.

6th October 1984 (September 1919)-Battalion of Death, led by Red Rosa. Billeted in Tulaga. L/Cpl Chippy killed by Rosa

13th October 1984(September 1919)- Attack beaten off with armoured car. Red Rosa killed. Tulaga is torched by the British to deny it to the Reds.

20th October 1984 (September 1919)-Hauling an aeroplane by sledge. They blacken their cap badges to stop the sniper aiming for them. The monks refuse to let the soldiers shelter at the monastery.

27th October 1984 (September 1919)-The abbot intervenes. The Reds attack, but this is beaten off when the aeroplane gets airborne. The Reds torch the monastery after the British leave.

3rd November 1984 NO CHARLEY'S WAR

10th November 1984 (September 1919)-Spirodonov and the armoured trains - CB takes the salute

17th November 1984 (September 1919)-Spirodonov's story - CB fights off the Red infantry, but the White train is led into an ambush

24th November 1984 (September 1919)-Train battle - CB changes the points - Percy is shot by the Reds

1st December 1984 (September 1919)-The Mill OP, White Russians change side and kill Woodbridge

8th December 1984(September 1919)- Fight at the Mill, CB leaps from the burning building.

15th December 1984 (September 1919)-Grouchy talks of revolution - he is captured during night patrol and is shot by Spirodonov who thinks he is an assassin

22nd December 1984 (September 1919)-Fight off train, prepare for use of mustard gas

29th December 1984 (September 1919)-Use mustard gas, CB save Zumarov the Commissar from death.

12th January 1985 (September 1919)-Fight off cavalry and Charley kills Kurt Zweig, a German ex-Uhlan mercenary. Spirodonov escapes senior commissar sent to arrest him, and goes in pursuit of train.

19th January 1985 (September 1919)-Discover of gold bullion aboard train. Spirodonov determined to take gold. Rear carriage is alight and about to explode. Charley uncouples it, but has to leap on to disappearing train.

26th January 1985  THE LAST EVER PAT MILLS SCRIPT FOR THE STORY-SEE INTERVIEW PAGE. FROM HERE ON THE SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN BY SCOTT GOODHALL.(September 1919)- Old Bill catches CB. Spirodonov's train slams into truck and explodes. (January 1933), CB on the dole. Busking outside `King Kong' queues. Sees Old Bill who is commissionaire. Adolf Hitler comes to power.

2nd February 1985 (1936) - Charley has nightmare about the trenches. Len is determined to join up.

9th February 1985 (Jan 1939)-. CB and Kate watch newsreel of Nazi aggression. Their son, Len, has jacked in university and has joined up. A furious Charley takes some air and sees Old Bill set upon by soldiers in an alley.

16th February 1985 (Jan 1939)-Fight off soldiers who had laughed at Bill when he tried to join up. Len joins up, conscription imminent. CB will have to go to war again.

23rd February 1985 (May 1940) - Charley and Watts have lost their comrades during Blitkrieg. Flashback to January when British arrive in France.

2nd March 1985 (May 1940) Charley and Watts attack a panzer and knock it out. Escape to woods.

9th March 1985 (May 1940) Sgt Nickles picks on CB. Tubby knocked over by fleeing troops.

16th March 1985 (May 1940) Charley saves a soldier Tubby from being crushed. Parachute watch in a wood and a sniper shoots two soldiers dead.

23rd March 1985 (May 1940) The sniper is shot, but they are attacked by motorcycle combinations.

30th March 1985(May 1940)  Parachutists turn out to be dummies set to explode on landing.

6th April 1985 (May 1940) Attila the Hun, aka Klaus Rimmer. Charley and Watts are trapped in town by panzer grenadiers.

13th April 1985 (May 1940) Archie and Cyril Hordle ambush Germans from cellar. Charley and Watts shelter with them.

20th April 1985 (May 1940) Archie's love of long words. Panzer attack on town.

27th April 1985 (May 1940) Charley and company sneak out of the basement by knocking a hole in the wall and getting into the shop next door. They make it out of the town and find a bren gun carrier in an old barn

4th May 1985(May 1940)  CB and co find Bren Gun Carrier and escape ahead of panzers. CB sees Len and group of sappers on bridge.

11th May 1985 (May 1940) CB and co try to make it cross bridge before RE blow it up. German bombard sappers killing them all.

18th May 1985 (May 1940) They cross half-collapsed bridge and pursuing German half-track collapses it. Len appears to have been killed in heavy shelling.

25th May 1985 Charley is prevented from striking the abusive Sgt Nickles. Fired on by Belgian fifth-columnists.

1st June 1985 (May 1940) Sgt Nickles kills the fifth columnists, but an arrow marker in a field points the way for German bombers.

8th June 1985 Charley appears to be shell shocked aftrer the battle tournai no doubt he will soon be back on form 'did i ever tell you about the time during war when....'

15th June 1985 (May 1940) CB and co use a horse to change the marker and the Luftwaffe bomb their own troops.

22nd June 1985 (May 1940) Old woman gives soldiers her husband's sabre from Franco-Prussian War. Meet up with armour.

29th June 1985 (May 1940) Attack by Matilda Is on German infantry column.

6th July 1985 (May 1940) Armoured car attacks Charley. Knocked out with Hotchkiss. Commander and Kleist prepare to fight on.

13th July 1985 (May 1940) Officer killed. Charley saves Kleist from Nickles.

20th July 1985 Captain Dixon impresses all the platoon except Charley who start going on about how hes too keen 'just like the officers we had in the great war....' Charley appears to be turning into uncle Albert from only fools and horses.

27th July 1985 May 1940- Arras and Charley bores his mates about the first time he was here in the first War.

3rd August 1985- Charley and co. drive straight into halted German tanks

10th August 1985 (May 1940) New orders to halt the British advance are lost when the dispatch rider is killed. Charley tries to persuade the Durhams' CO to stop his attack.

17th August 1985 (May 1940) Blitzkrieg attack and the Durhams are badly mauled. Withdrawal to new line.

24th August 1985 The platoon are in a celler in the town,  Old Nick shoots a German prisoner in the back

31st August 1985 (May 1940) Defence of Sainte Croix

7th September 1985 (May 1940) Attack by Panzer Commander `Attila the Hun' at Sainte Croix

14th September 1985 (May 1940) Nickles tries to get CB to crash the carrier into the lead tank, but he swerves behind brick wall. Nickles prepares to murder German prisoners.

21st September 1985 (May 1940) CB saves Germans but the Germans attack and the cellar ceiling begins to collapse, in a strange echo of 'Mad Mick' (see 1979).

28th September 1985 (May 1940) Cyril holds ceiling up as British escape. Exactly the same outcome as Mad Mick at the start of the strip, i wonder if this  is a rip-off of Mills or a tip-of-the-cap, in joke by Scott Goodall.

5th October 1985 (May 1940) Pull Kleist out just in time. He saves Charley from a lunatic Nickles who tries to shoot CB. Nickles knocks out Attila the Hun's tank and they fight.

12th October 1985 (May 1940) Nickles and Attila fight. Young German panzer man saves CB and co by leading them to safety through sewers. Nickles stands in their way with grenades.

19th October 1985 (May 1940) Nickles is pulled down by a mortally wounded Attila and grenade kills them both. CB shot in the shoulder.

26th October 1985 (May 1940) Defence of the Canal. CB saves Scouser, Nobby Clark from the canal.

2nd November 1985 NO CHARLEY'S WAR

9th November 1985 (May 1940) CB receives news that Kate has been arrested for blackmarketeering from Oiley.

16th November 1985 (May 1940) Oiley has been stashing stolen goods in Kate's house. She is too distraught by news of Len's supposed death to notice.

23rd November 1985 (May 1940) Charley leads French Moroccans into attack on German troops.

30th November 1985 nobby Clark is hit in the head

7th December 1985 (May 1940) CB asks for compassionate leave as the British withdraw. A sniper kills his CO.

14th December 1985 (May 1940) Fight off German night assault across the canal.

21st December 1985 (May 1940) Heinrich Holtz snipes two British officers. CB given the task of hunting him down by chinless wonder, Lt Winslow-Brown. Charley takes an instant dislike to him.

28th December 1985 (May 1940) CSM Cooper shows Charley a knocked out Panzer. The Winslow Boy knocked it out single-handedly. CB remains unimpressed.

11th January 1986 (Summer 1940)-CB crosses canal to stalk Holtz.

18th January 1986 (Summer 1940)-CB is tracked by Holtz in turn. Cornered in ironmongers', he is wounded in the right hand.

25th January 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley has to use his left hand to fire his rifle, but he escapes to a timberyard. Holtz prepares to burn him out.

1st February 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley charges Holtz who freezes, as with the wild boar, and is killed.

8th February 1986 -Half dead, Charley floats across the river back to his own lines

15th February 1986 (Summer 1940)-West of Lille, Charley meets Wally Forbes at a First Aid Post. Train crash

22nd February 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley and Wally escape the wreckage.

1st March 1986 (Summer 1940)-Stukas shoot up the hospital train. CB and Wally escape to farmhouse, but a mysterious figure puts a shotgun to Wally's head.

8th March 1986 Hortense Flaubert is introduced, after finally being convinced they not fifth columists

15th March 1986(Summer 1940)- Hidden by Hortense Flaubert.

22nd March 1986 (Summer 1940)-Germans attack the farm

29th March 1986 (Summer 1940)-Hortense is fighting mad. Wally, CB and HF go to attack fuel dump.

5th April 1986 (Summer 1940)-Fight in the fuel dump in a captured tank.

12th April 1986 (Summer 1940)-Hortense is wounded, and they escape the dump pursued by Germans.

19th April 1986 (Summer 1940)-They kill the pursuing guard dogs, and reach Hortense's farm house, but are betrayed.

26th April 1986(Summer 1940)- Hortense prepares to make her last stand as the Germans arrive outside.

3rd May 1986 (Summer 1940)-She attacks them in a wheelchair, allowing Charley and Wally to escape at the cost of her life.

10th May 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley and Wally come to the aid of an ambulance attacked by French troops. Charley asks one of the wounded to deliver a letter to Bill Tozer when he returns to Britain.

17th May 1986 (Summer 1940)-Old Bill and the LDV. Bill goes to Oily to find out what happened with Kate. Oily asks his henchman, Sammy, to arrange an accident for Bill.

24th May 1986(Summer 1940)- Bill gives his men gas training in a smoke filled cellar. Sammy knocks Bill out and leaves him to die of fumes.

31st May 1986 (Summer 1940)-Sammy pushes Old Bill down the cellar steps, but young John Wilson returns and saves Old Bill's life. They pay a visit to Oily

7th June 1986 (Summer 1940)-Rout in France. Old Bill and Oiley box. Oiley beaten into submission and taken to the police station where he gives a full confession. Kate Bourne is released from prison.

14th June 1986(Summer 1940)- Cornered by the Waffen SS in a ditch.

21st June 1986 (Summer 1940)-Helped by LAC Bill Sims, they witness a massacre of refugees by SS Col Braun.

28th June 1986 (Summer 1940)-Breakthrough to Le Paradis. Bill encounters a rat in a sewer, and his fearful cries alert the Germans.

5th July 1986 (Summer 1940)-Escape sewer and arrive at Le Paradis to see surrender and iminent massacre of the Norfolks.

12th July 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley attacks SS in vain, and the surviving soldiers are killed. Rescue Bill Sims and kill Braun.

19th July 1986 (Summer 1940)-Dunkirk perimeter. CB and Wally help MPs destroy abandoned British lorries.

26th July 1986 A(Summer 1940)-ir attack kills MPs and Wally's lucky black cat.

2nd August 1986 (Summer 1940)-Dunkirk under fire. Wally Forbes killed on the East Mole.

9th August 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley shoots down a Stuka using a Bofors gun.

16th August 1986 (Summer 1940)-Sent east to help evacuation there, a Spitfire is shot down.

23rd August 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley rescues the wounded pilot, but his attempts to get him on board a hospital ship before other soldiers meets violent resistance.

30th August 1986 (Summer 1940)-Saved by the Winslow Boy, an Intelligence Officer. E-Boats attack the British ships.

6th September 1986 (Summer 1940)-Ship sinks. Charley sent to retrieve trucks with Royal Engineers, so that they can build a make-shift jetty by driving them into the sea. CB sees Len.

13th September 1986(Summer 1940)- Len is shell-shocked, but put aboard a boat. A near-miss makes him go crazy and he leaps into the water.

20th September 1986 (Summer 1940)-Fished out of the sea, CB leads a wounded Archie on to the same boat, but the boat strikes a mine.

27th September 1986 (Summer 1940)-They are rescued but Len punches his dad, knocking him into the sea. He is nearly crushed as two ships slam together in the rough sea

4th October 1986 (Summer 1940)-Charley is rescued from the sea, his ribs broken, and Len recognises his dad. CB realises that this is his last battle, and that he is too old, and his mind goes back to the First World War. End of Charley's War.

11th October 1986 Rerun Eps 1 and so on.

Reprints in Eagle (exact dates unknown)

2003

In 2003 the visitors to this website, Pat Mills and myself had badgered Rebellion to reprint Charley's War in the Megazine that they did it to get rid of us- it was an instant success again. The progs and dates and the issues that appeared are listed below

Reprinted
Judge Dredd Megazine 211 (1-5)
Judge Dredd Megazine 212 (6-10)
Judge Dredd Megazine 213 (11-13)
Judge Dredd Megazine 214 (14-16)
Judge Dredd Megazine 215 (17-19)
Judge Dredd Megazine 216 (20-21)
Judge Dredd Megazine 217 (22-28)
Judge Dredd Megazine 218 (29-32)
Judge Dredd Megazine 219 (33-38)
Judge Dredd Megazine 220 (39-43)
Judge Dredd Megazine 221 (44-49)
Judge Dredd Megazine 222 (50-55)
Judge Dredd Megazine 223 (56-60)
Judge Dredd Megazine 224 (61-63)
Judge Dredd Megazine 225 (64-66)
Judge Dredd Megazine 226 (67-69)

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Charley's War the graphic novel is released by Titan Books in November

 

 

 

As ive already mentioned Joe Rarely drew the Annuals or Summer Special stories due to time constraints drawing Charley's War in his working week, here is a list of the annuals and Specials and who drew what and when.