Name This Soldier

[SwampFox]

Today,  1/21/2020, would have been this well known comedian's 96th birthday. He landed at Normandy as an operator with the Third Light Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery, British Army. He later summed up his service with, "I was five years in the army and never got a stripe." Who is he?

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[LBC]

That's Benny Hill...I think nearly  every British male his age was a soldier 

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Correct on both counts.