WW1 thru to the Falklands.
Maybe he’s James Bigglesworth. Biggles had a long career.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles
I am a major, major Biggles fan - my collection is near complete at this point (I also had a near complete collection in 1971, but I gave it away to a younger boy as I thought I’d outgrown them!)