Edmund Blackadder mud of the trenches of the Western Front, this Blackadder's sole goal is to escape his inevitable fate. Blackadder's attempts to escape are thwarted by General Melchett, who does not realize the futility of the war, and Melchett's assistant Captain Darling, his sycophantic right-hand man. Blackadder shares his trench with Private S. Baldrick, and Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh. In the series finale, "Goodbyeee", Captain Blackadder and his company go over the top in 1917 to their implied deaths. In the series, Captain Blackadder is seen wearing the following ribbons: Lord Edmund Blackadder is the modern representative of
The Son of God Goes Forth to War The Son of God Goes Forth to War The Son of God Goes Forth to War (1812) is a hymn by Reginald Heber which appears, with reworked lyrics, in the novella "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888), by Rudyard Kipling and, set to the Irish tune "The Moreen" / "The Minstrel Boy", in the film "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975), directed by John Huston. In religious use it is more often sung to Henry Stephen Cutler's 1872 tune "All Saints New", which was written for it. <poem> The Son of God goes forth to war, a kingly