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Maltravers (The Start of WW1)
Played by Jim Howick
Maltravers, the earnest ginger-moustached junior officer played by Jim Howick in Horrible Histories' 2009 sketch The Start of WW1. His questions prompt the general's tangled explanation of why Britain is going to war.
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