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Joe Macknade

Played by Lloyd Thomas

Fact title Fact data
Date of birth
6 February 1896
Place of birth
Folkestone
Age at outbreak of WW1
18
Occupation
Unemployed barker
Address
Saffrons Place, Folkestone

Affable and well-meaning, though not very bright, Joe is unfairly tarred with the Macknade brush.

Like his father, Bill, he is largely unemployed, though he does odd jobs as a carnival barker. He has poor health, is small in stature and famously rotten teeth. He is desperate to enlist to escape an unhappy family home and a life of poverty.