Jean Claude Lengela

Played by Fiston Barek

Fact title	Fact data
Date of birth	4 April 1888
Place of birth	Coquilhatville, Belgian Congo
Age at outbreak of WW1	26
Occupation	Wounded soldier and munitions worker
Address	Elisabethville

Jean Claude is one of the thousands of wounded soldiers at Elisabethville, a specially-built Belgian town and munitions works at Birtley, just outside Newcastle.

It is easy to see why Marion falls for the romantic, violin-playing Jean Claude, who acts as her chivalrous translator at the factory where he works 72 hours a week. However their relationship does not go unnoticed by the overzealous military management and a few suspicious locals, who aren’t as welcoming to the war-fleeing workforce as most.