Silas Morrow

Played by Shaun Dooley

Fact title	Fact data
Date of birth	11 November 1878
Place of birth	Todmorden
Age at outbreak of WW1	35
Occupation	Farmer and Non-Commissioned Officer

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 Victor; but with medical services overstretched by the war, these are not normal circumstances.

When Silas begins to display symptoms which cannot be physically explained, Dr Pilchard suspects the contagion of “war hysteria”. Adeline however is much more capable of understanding Silas’s mysterious illness, having herself suffered from the stigma of an unspoken, medicalised malady.