When Private Godfrey admits to having been a conscientious objector during the Great War, he is branded a coward, sent home in disgrace and thereafter ostracised by the platoon. When he saves Mainwaring's life, though, and it emerges that he holds the Military Medal for bravery under fire as a medical orderly, he is forgiven and reinstated

Frazer the undertaker loses the spring of the Lewis gun, He believes it may be in a recently made coffin which is shortly to be buried.