 Mr Yeatman is also in charge of counting the church collections after services, which he often does in the "Red Lion" public house.Throughout the series, there are numerous insinuations from Lance-Corporal Jones and Chief Warden Hodges that Mr Yeatman is engaged in the systematic embezzlement of church funds, but the Vicar seems to be either in denial of this reality, too trusting and naive to believe it, or he simply turns a blind eye.Like the vicar and Warden Hodges, the verger is a veteran of the First World War and is noted (in "Battle of the Giants!")