Cora Gidley

Played by Joanna Monro

Fact title	Fact data
Date of birth	12 December 1863
Place of birth	Sandgate
Age at the outbreak of WW1	51
Address	Staverley Court, Devon

Gabriel Graham’s estranged younger sister Cora arrives in Folkestone with trademark bluster and bravado on her way back to Devon where she lives with Catholic quarry-owner Hector.

Brimming with pride about her two sons fighting in Mesopotamia and the support she gives to a Red Cross base hospital in France, Cora is both an annoyance and an inspiration for the rest of her extended family.