A detachment from Captain Kurt Heidecker's Plant Troop, supported by a section from 9th Construction Troop, worked over Christmas to complete these works (which included resurfacing and shaping the runway, drainage and installing culverts).
The junior doctor and zoologist was Edward Wilson, who became close to Scott and provided the qualities of calmness, patience and detachment that the captain reportedly lacked.
Hunting them down is a detachment of soldiers led by Captain Vidal, brilliantly played by the handsome, menacing Sergi Lopez, best known in this country for playing the psychopathic killer in Dominik Moll's Harry, He's Here To Help and the evil head porter of a London hotel in Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things.
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As part of their captain's personal security detachment, Specialist Coppeler and a half-dozen soldiers spread out around their commander, perched on rooftops, encircling desert perimeters and staking out a building's edge.
Soon after that, when two British officers were killed leading an attack by the larger detachment on the German gun battery, Captain Porteous took their place, dashing across 250 yards of open ground in the face of machine-gun fire at the head of a bayonet assault.
The detachment was under the command of Captain James Raymond.
The next day more reinforcements arrived when Captain Jacob Early's detachment reached the grove.
Filmed in South Africa, it stars Green Wing actor Oliver Chris as wise-cracking bomb disposal expert captain Nick Medhurst, who leads a detachment of soldiers engaged in the deadly task of dealing with improvised explosive devices.
One of the nurses who witnessed the 10 August incident apparently told her boyfriend, a captain in the Seventh Army public affairs detachment.
