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Once a Soldier - Series 1 - On Parade

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Documentary series about the Chelsea Pensioners, former British soldiers who live in the Royal Hospital in Chelsea. All leave is cancelled - all 300 Chelsea Pensioners are ordered to the parade ground as HM the Queen takes the salute on Founders Day. But in the hottest June since records began, how will the massed ranks of the pensioners cope?