Bill Meadows

Bill Meadows was British lieutenant during the Great War. On Christmas Day, 1914, his company was in the trenches outside Messines, Belgium. He was able to still enjoy the informal truce the combatants had brokered for the day. He and an officer named Alec spent time with German Hauptmann Franz Wormser (who'd been educated at Cambridge) until until a German messenger named Adolf Hitler grew enraged by the truce, and started firing the British officers, killing Alec. Meadows promptly shot Hitler dead. Wormser quickly convinced Meadows that Hitler had been a lone maniac, and that the loss of the British officer had been avenged. Meadows agreed.

Meadows briefly grieved for Alec's widow, Sue, whom he described as "sweet as sugar".