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Lewis Cox

Played by Dylan Edwards

Fact title Fact data
Date of birth
24 September 1896
Place of birth
Ashburton
Age at outbreak of WW1
18
Occupation
Farmer
Address
Halecot Farm, Devon

An amiable, but passive, young man, Lewis has always assumed that he will follow in his father Isaac’s footsteps as a farmer.

However the introduction of the Military Service Act means he will be conscripted unless he can prove his indispensability to the war effort at home. Not one to bear a grudge, Lewis would rather go fishing than get embroiled with the family conflict unfolding around him at Halecot Farm.