This is the highly questionable, entirely unauthorized, and almost certainly exaggerated tale of Captain Herb Jones, a man who believed, deep in his soul (and deeper in his mustache), that he was destined for greatness. Not just any greatness, mind you. We're talking Lawrence of Arabia-level legend but with more tea, less competence, and significantly worse maps.
Captain Jones, an officer in His Majesty's Armed Forces during the First World War, was assigned - or more accurately, misplaced to a dusty, ill-equipped base somewhere in Libya.