Phyllis Marshall

Played by Christine Absalom

Fact title	Fact data
Date of birth	19 February 1860
Place of birth	Newcastle
Age at the outbreak of WW1	54
Address	Collingwood Park, Tyneside

From the privileged Marshall dynasty, Phyllis is older sister to Sylvia, with whom she has a fraught relationship.

Controlling but benevolent, Phyllis helped raise nephew Victor at the family estate in the North East. Keen to preserve family standards despite her apparently modest "five hundred pounds a year", her arrival in Folkestone is driven by a particular interest in the upbringing of Kitty’s child.