 Played by Arnold Ridley, Charles Godfrey was the frailest member of the platoon and was the platoon's medical orderly.He had served in the First World War as a conscientious-objecting stretcher bearer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, winning the Military Medal, before becoming a gentlemen's outfitter at the Army & Navy Stores.Godfrey was a gentle, amiable but vague bachelor who lived with his spinster sisters Dolly and Cissy in an idyllic cottage, and was a martyr to his weak bladder, leading to many requests to be "excused".