Lance Corporal Jack Jones, portrayed by Clive Dunn OBE (9 January 1920-6 November 2012) was the local Butcher of Walmington-on-Sea, and had served in four military campaigns—Mahdist War in the Sudan (1884–1885), The British Reconquest of Sudan (1896–1899), The Boer War (1899–1902) and the First World War (1914–1918). He later returned to his position as a Lance-Corporal in the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard.