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Episode #4.9 - S4-E9

Factual error: Renate escapes from the prison in a Morris Ten Four, with the badge visible on the bonnet. However, this designation was not introduced until 1935 and the episode is set in 1931.

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Factual error: The ribbons on Captain Smith's medals are incorrect. The ribbon on his Reserve Decoration should be plain green (it is green and red in the film) and that on his Transport Medal should be red and blue (it is blue and white in the film).

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Factual error: Christopher Robin and his schoolmates undergo the army medical (which he fails) at the outbreak of war. In fact, Christopher Robin had left school and was at Cambridge by the time the war broke out. In addition, those that pass the medical go off to war in privates' uniforms. As the school (Stowe) is a prestigious public school, almost all would have been commissioned and never served as privates.

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Factual error: The musicians in the (real) Band of the Coldstream Guards that plays Happy Birthday for Christopher Robin are wearing their 21st-century uniforms and medals.

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Not an Ice Cream - S1-E6

Factual error: The British Army soldiers are not wearing British Army uniforms or carrying British Army weapons and some of them have beards, which are not permitted to British Army soldiers.

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Factual error: The survivors of the Wormhoudt massacre were not picked up by the same SS soldiers who had carried out the massacre as in the series. They were picked up by a Wehrmacht ambulance unit, which is how they managed to survive to become prisoners of war.

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Factual error: Captain James Lynn-Allen wasn't shot by an SS officer whilst remonstrating with him about the treatment of his men. He was shot whilst trying to escape and his sacrifice allowed another soldier to successfully escape.

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Deliverance - S1-E3

Factual error: The crosses marking the graves of British soldiers outside the hospital abbreviate Private as the American "Pvt" rather than the British "Pte."

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Season 1 generally

Factual error: Jimmy Langley wears the single pip of a second lieutenant. He was actually a lieutenant at the time and should therefore be wearing two pips.

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Season 1 generally

Factual error: Harold Alexander, although his rank of major-general is correctly mentioned by the narrator, wears the rank insignia of a full general.

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Factual error: None of the Metropolitan Police officers are wearing the divisional letters that have always been worn above their numbers by the Met on their epaulettes.

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Factual error: The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has red fabric within the crowns on his rank insignia. This would be correct for most British police forces, but the Metropolitan Police uses blue fabric instead.

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The Road to Hell - S6-E5

Factual error: Moss is apparently now a chief superintendent. This rank was not widely used in England until 1949 and was not in use in Birmingham City Police until at least that time.

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The Road to Hell - S6-E5

Factual error: Birmingham Urban District Council is mentioned. There was no Birmingham UDC. Birmingham was a County Borough with City status, not an Urban District.

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Factual error: Captain Bernard Rawlings, the British naval attaché in Tokyo at the beginning of the film, wears no medal ribbons. In fact, as depicted in photographs, Rawlings would have had several ribbons by that stage, including First World War service ribbons and the OBE he was awarded in 1920.

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Factual error: All the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officers appear to wear green branch distinction cloth ('lights') between their rank rings. Green indicated electrical officers. As non-specialist officers, they shouldn't be wearing any lights at all.

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Show generally

Factual error: Detective Superintendent Hamilton has red fabric within the crowns on her rank insignia. This would be correct for most British police forces, but the Metropolitan Police uses blue fabric instead.

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Black Shirt - S6-E2

Factual error: Sir Oswald Mosley is shown sitting in Parliament in 1933. He actually never sat as an MP after 1931.

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Season 3 generally

Factual error: Lord Palmerston was not a young, fashionable, rakish man-about-town at this time. He was actually 64 when the series begins in 1848, eight years older than Lord John Russell, the Prime Minister, depicted as a much older man.

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The White Elephant - S3-E8

Factual error: The Duke of Wellington submits his resignation as Commander-in-Chief in 1851. In reality, he remained in the post until his death the following year.

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