Harry H. Corbett

Harry H. Corbett OBE was an English actor and comedian, who co-starred alongside Wilfrid Brambell in the long-running BBC television sitcom "Steptoe and Son", which was broadcast 1962-65 and 1970–74. Corbett enlisted in the Royal Marines in World War II, serving in the Home Fleet on the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire. After VJ Day in 1945, he was posted to the Far East, where he was involved in quelling unrest in New Guinea and reportedly killed two Japanese soldiers there whilst engaged in hand-to-hand combat. While posted in Tonga, he deserted and remained in Australia before handing himself in to military police.