- Private Albert Nicholls has had a hand shot off but loathsome Major Yelland claims he is a malingerer who wounded himself to get out of the war and, despite the efforts of Colonel Brett and Matron, he is court-martialled and shot. Yelland, an incompetent and snobbish surgeon, taunts Thomas Gillan over his experimental treatment to save a patient's leg with a prosthetic, though Thomas is successful and Yelland is moved away. Meanwhile young Irishman Enda Peach stages a naked revolt against the hated British, drawing an unusual response from the sergeant who sees him as his adoptive son and Joan confesses to Belgian refugee Jaco that her lover is actually a German she met prior to the war. However Rosalie notices the engagement ring Joan wears around her neck.—don @ minifie-1
- Pte. Albert Nicholls was wounded in battle but now faces an even greater battle when Maj. Gerard Yelland, a newly arrived surgeon, insists that the wound was self-inflicted. Yelland is a snob and a not very competent surgeon who is disliked by pretty well all of the other surgeons at the hospital. Meanwhile a young Irish soldier, Enda Peach, is having trouble reconciling fighting for the British, who he sees as Ireland's oppressors. His family back home has actually received threats about him being in the army. His good friend, the older Sgt. Aloysius McCafferty - also an Irishman - has no such trouble but is unable to convince Peach who stages his own unique protest. Rosalie begins to tell people Joan is engaged without knowing the entire story.—garykmcd
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