Charlie Wright was a real-life Forrest Gump. Leaving the idyllic rural valley below Exmoor where he was born, he enlisted in British Army and found himself in the midst of the Second Boer War and the battles of Colenso, Spion Kop and Ladysmith. He was later posted to India in the Meerut cantonment where the Indian Mutiny had begun. On demobilisation he became a collier in the mines of South Wales where the Tonypandy Riots were put down by Churchill's...