History Series / SoldierSoldier

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!!Tropes paraded for inspection in this show include - ''wait for it, you horrible idle little trope!'' - these.

* SuspiciouslySmallArmy: The entire regiment is rarely on display at any one time. Normally the series focuses on B company, or especially whichever platoon the main characters are in.
* YourCheatingHeart: Happens regularly, [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder as Army life takes it's toll on relationships.]]
** Donna cheats on Dave a number of times, her excuse being she's bored with being an Army wife.
** Major Cadman's wife cheats on him, due to feeling lonely.
** Despite being HappilyMarried, Tony cheats on Joy in New Zealand.

Soldier Soldier is a British television drama series. it was titled after an old traditional song of the same name - ''Soldier, soldier will you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum?'' This was used as its theme music.

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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder

* GoodLookingPrivates

* MajorlyAwesome
* MarriedToTheJob

* MilitarySalute
* NewMeat
* RatedMForManly

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Most significantly of course, it was made and set before 9/11, Afganistan and Iraq.
** Series Two features the regiment going on a tour of duty to Hong Kong before the handover.
** On a much more trivial note, the clothes everyone wears when the are in civvies are noticeably late [[TheEighties Eighties]] and [[TheNineties Nineties]] styles.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Almost all the officers and NCOs want the best for their soldiers.

** Lieutenant Colonel Mark Osboure, who spent time in Northern Ireland during UsefulNotes/{{The Troubles}}.

** Major Cadman's wife also cheats on him, due to feeling lonely.

** Dave states he looks on Colonel Fortune as a father figure, as he has no contact with his real father. Lieutenant Pasco thinks he is trying to suck up, however Dave really does seem very fond of Fortune.

** Lieutenant Colonel Mark Osboure, who spent time in Northern Ireland during UsefulNotes/{{TheTroubles}}.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Dave looks on Colonel Fortune as a father figure, as he has no contact with his real father.
* Main/ArtisticLicenseMilitary: genuine army units could not be used or identified in this series, so wholly fictional ones, with plausible back stories, were invented.

* ColonelBadass: Lieutenant Colonel Dan Fortune, a deceptively mild man who can berate, scarify and yell with the best of them, when provoked. He is also extremely capable in the field - when his helicopter crashes, he cooly gets on with looking after the injured men, and lights a fire to attract attention to the crash site.
* DadTheVeteran: quite a few characters went into the Fusiliers because they are part of an Army tradition.

* MilitaryBrat: lots and lots of them; the show is drama set in a British army barracks in peacetime. Wives and families feature a lot.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* SoldierVsWarrior: senior soldiers and older officers are veterans of ''real'' shooting battles, who sometimes despair of the peacetime, unblooded, men they are training and leading.

** Major Cadman's wife also cheats on him, due to feeling lonely.

* YourCheatingHeart:

** On a much more trivial note, the clothes everyone wears when the are in civvies are noticeably late [[TheEighties Eighties]] and [[TheNineties Nineties]] styles.

** On a much more trivial note, the clothes everyone wears when the are in civvies are noticeably late [[TheEighties Eighties]] and [[Nineties TheNineties]] styles.

* GoodShepherd: Padre Simon Armstrong, who is a kind and sympathetic ear to the officers and men.

* Main/ArtisticLicenseMilitary: genuine army units could not be used or identified in this series, so wholly fictional ones, with plausible back stories, were invented.
* ColonelBadass: The Fusiliers' CO, a deceptively mild man who can berate, scarify and yell with the best of them, when provoked.

* FakeAristocrat: At one point, Dave is persuaded by some of the unit's junior officers to put on the mess dress of a lieutenant and bluff his way into a rival unit's officers' mess. Tucker carries off the deception, much to the delight of the officers concerned, but while sneaking back into barracks, he is clocked by the [[SergeantRock Regimental Sergeant-Major]], who is outraged to see a private soldier wearing officers' uniform he has no right to. Tucker ends up in the cells, but is only mildly reprimanded by the Colonel, who appreciates his junior officers are the ones at fault. ''They'' get a right royal bollocking later.

* SergeantRock: the feared Regimental Sergeant-Major.
* SoldierVsWarrior: senior soldiers and older officers are veterans of ''real'' shooting battles, who sometimes despair of the peacetime, unblooded, men they are training and leading.

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* SoldierVsWarrior: senior soldiers and older officers are veterans of ''real'' shooting battles, who sometimes despair of the peacetime, unblooded, men they are training and leading.

* MilitaryBrat: lots and lots of them; the show is drama set in a British army barracks in peacetime. Wives and families feature a lot.

Soldier Soldier is a British television drama series. it was titled after an old traditional song of the same name - ''Soldier, soldier will you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum?'' This was used as its theme music.

!!Tropes paraded for inspection in this show include - ''wait for it, you horrible idle little trope!'' - these.