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Silas Morrow
Played by Shaun Dooley
| Fact title | Fact data |
|---|---|
| Date of birth |
11 November 1878
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| Place of birth |
Todmorden
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| Age at outbreak of WW1 |
35
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| Occupation |
Farmer and Non-Commissioned Officer
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Coming from farming stock, Staff Sergeant Morrow is convalescing at the Bevan Hospital after suffering from trench fever. Under normal circumstances he would, as an NCO, be treated separately to an officer such as ; but with medical services overstretched by the war, these are not normal circumstances.
When Silas begins to display symptoms which cannot be physically explained, suspects the contagion of “war hysteria”. however is much more capable of understanding Silas’s mysterious illness, having herself suffered from the stigma of an unspoken, medicalised malady.
