Went the Day Well? (1942)

Mervyn Johns: Charlie Sims

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• Charles Sims, the church warder : [looking at a grave marker for the dead German invaders]  Yes, that's the only bit of England they got!

• Charles Sims, the church warder : Good day to you. Come to have a look at Bramley End, have you? Pretty little place, and a nice old church, 13th century, parts of it. Still, it won't be that has brought you here, I don't suppose. It'll be these names on this grave here. And the story that's buried along with them. Looks funny, doesn't it? German names in English churchyard. They wanted England, these Jerries did, and this is the only bit they got. The Battle of Bramley end, The papers called it. Nothing was said about it until after the war, and old Hitler got what was coming to him.

• [Germans are firing at the Manor House] 

  Charles Sims, the church warder : Duck madam, duck.

  Mrs Fraser : I am ducking.