Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn was born in London in 1920 and
died in November 2012 aged 92.
Clive was best known to British TV viewers as Corporal Jones
in the BBC series Dads Army from the 1960s and the 1970s. But he was also a sort
of pop star too when he charted with several records in the 1970s including the
big No. 1 called Granddad.
Clive Dunn OBE played a very old home guard volunteer during
world war two, he managed to bring that old man profile to the pop charts, and
had a huge hit with this novelty record. The song was written by Herbie Flowers
the co-founder of Blue Mink in the 1970s.
