From all I've heard of Sean South, he was a terribly serious, rather humourless young man who was killed in a hideous ambush in an operation that went horribly wrong.

He was a cousin, as it happens, of Gregory Peck. First cousin, I think, but I'm not sure, might be second cousin.

But if you want gay, look to the Irish Guards - according to a recent biography of Anthony Blunt, they were the gay prostitutes favoured by the crowd of upper-class British homosexuals Blunt hung out with - you went to a pub, can't remember the name, and chose an Irish Guardsman, and put a folded ten-bob note in his boot - if he accepted, he went round the back of the pub with you...