Talk:Private Charles Godfrey

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[edit] Oldest?

The oldest member of the platoon

Is he? I know the show isn't always consistent on comparitively obscure details, but the first season episode The Showing Up of Corporal Jones is pretty explicit that Jones is the eldest (as the only one deemed too old) - was there ever anything that explicitly says Godfrey is? Timrollpickering 19:53, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Godfrey is nearly 86. Jones' is in his 70s and his father is in his 90s.

[edit] 86?

At that age he would have been born in the late 1850's! Making him in his fifties during WWI and therefore not subject to conscription - and probably not permitted to serve in action in any way. I was just watching the episode The Recruit and already wondering about his age and previous experiences. However the main article Dad's Army says he's 59 - which would then tally with his RAMC work and all Plutonium27 (talk) 20:34, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, there are several inconsistencies like that throughout the series - in the early episodes, Jones supposedly has a living father, for example. I'll have to have a read around to see if his age is explicitly stated in any books, etc. Bob talk 20:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)