Private's Progress (1956 John Boulting)

Last seen 2013. Not as funny perhaps as some of the others in this series (though you have to revel in Terry-Thomas calling even individuals a 'Shaar', and Ian Carmichael's drunken reply when asked to identify himself - '999 Prickle-puss') but the satisfying story begins where Carmichel joins group of other rejects in 'holding' and meets wide boy Dickie Attenborough, who becomes central to the story. I didn't buy the two Germans (one, Christopher Lee on the brink of breakthrough) committing suicide - writers should have found two bodies somewhere else!

Alan Hackney's 1954 novel is the source - not sure if this had the same ending (Carmichael somewhat unfairly being nicked!)

We don't hear if Jill Adams is nicked