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Episode 3 -Charles

posted 10 years ago by fanaticita
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Why was Charles and a number of other people in the mobile laundry unit sent to the "Far East", and why was he killed??? This was not clear or I missed something.

[–] jlchine 10 years ago

I'm not sure of the details either, but it's too bad there wasn't more of him. Charles Stringham is my favourite part of the show.

[–] randommovies2002 9 years ago

I thought he was a rather sad and tragic figure. His niece was something else, wasn't she?! (Love Miranda Richardson!)

[–] jlchine 9 years ago

Tragic yes but he's also amusing and charming, a bit like Sebastian Flyte of BR. Stringham was a gentle and intelligent soul beneath the dipso.

[–] randommovies2002 9 years ago

Wasn't Charles taken prisoner? I thought he died in the prison camp where we saw him being beaten.

They were sent because of the campaigns being fought in that part of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-East_Asian_theatre_of_World_War_II

Mobile Laundry Units
http://www.qmfound.com/services.htm

[–] marudd50 9 years ago

Also, he ended up a captive and then dead because Winderpoole did nothing to keep his old friend from such a fate.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

[–] randommovies2002 9 years ago

Right, that's what I thought. (Need to watch this again.)

How are you getting along? Enjoying it?