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| Paul McGann | ... |
Percy Toplis
(4 episodes, 1986)
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| Bill Fellows | ... |
Geordie
(3 episodes, 1986)
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| Matthew Marsh | ... |
Charles Strange
(3 episodes, 1986)
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| Anthony Calf | ... |
Guinness
(3 episodes, 1986)
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Jane Wood | ... |
Annie Webster
(2 episodes, 1986)
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| Ron Donachie | ... |
Strachan
(2 episodes, 1986)
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| Timothy West | ... |
Thomson
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Dave Hill | ... |
Frank Webster
(2 episodes, 1986)
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| Penelope Wilton | ... |
Lady Angela Forbes
(2 episodes, 1986)
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| Jerome Flynn | ... |
Franny
(2 episodes, 1986)
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| Cherie Lunghi | ... |
Dorothy
(2 episodes, 1986)
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David Allister | ... |
General Asser
(2 episodes, 1986)
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| Geoff Morrell | ... |
Aussie Gas Mask
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Louis Mellis | ... |
Scots Gas Mask
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Philip McGough | ... |
Edwin Woodhall
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(2 episodes, 1986)
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| Patrick Doyle | ... |
Gilzean
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Aran Bell | ... |
Fellows
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Billy Clarke |
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Terry Cundall | ... |
Bertram
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Peter Hutchinson | ... |
Norman
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Ted Richards | ... |
PC Fulton
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Richard Ireson | ... |
Inspector Ritchie
(2 episodes, 1986)
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David Miller | ... |
Spruce
(2 episodes, 1986)
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Whether the events portrayed at Passchendale are true or not exactly accurate,this is still moving and emotive drama.Maybe useful as a training manual on how not to treat recruits, as bullying and brutality can still raise their ugly heads.Everyone has a breaking point and rather than instilling pride the Redcaps degraded and abused to the extent the soldiers were stripped of their dignity and had nothing to lose in mutiny.The drama certainly gets the viewer on the side of Percy Topliss,i was urging his escape from the pernicious official Woodhall.Whether mutiny jeopardised the allied cause,the underlying themes showed the complexity of the situation and how discipline stretched to inhumanity can backfire.