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Effie Taverner

Played by Lizzie Stables

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Date of birth
31 October 1900
Place of birth
Plymouth
Age at outbreak of WW1
14
Address
Halecot Farm, Devon

Brazen and blossoming Effie helps, sometimes with great reluctance, at her mother Elspeth’s Halecot Farm.

Not having grown up as a farm girl, she is more interested in Elspeth’s handsome Belgian labourer Georges than she is in sheep shearing. Against the backdrop of a Devonshire spring time, Effie’s affectionately competitive companionship with soon blooms.