It Ain't Half Hot Mum to Bombardier after Solly is demobbed and sent back to Britain. The soldiers are under the orders of Battery Sergeant Major "Shut Up" Williams, a belligerent Welshman who has spent almost all of his life as a professional soldier. In turn, Williams reports to the two officers in charge of the Concert Party: Captain Ashwood and Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds. Both Ashwood and Reynolds are characterised as coming from upper-class backgrounds. Ashwood, the younger officer, is rather stupid and slightly excitable, while Reynolds is older and more worldly-wise and sensible. While often bemoaning the rough conditions of Army life, both Ashwood and
Mavis Pugh Clegg, an actor who would later appear in "Dad's Army", "Are You Being Served?" and "You Rang, M'Lord?", but is perhaps best known as Mr La-di-da Gunner Graham in the BBC sitcom "It Ain't Half Hot Mum", and they married in 1959. Pugh did not begin her television career until she was in her sixth decade, with an appearance in the 1974 "Dad's Army" episode "The Captain's Car". Two years later she appeared in one episode of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum", titled "Ticket to Blighty", and in "Are You Being Served?" in the episode "Fifty Years On". She also