Captain Miles Hesketh-Thorne

Miles Hesketh-Thorne is a surgeon in the field hospital.

Character outline
Miles has been granted every opportunity and privilege but he’s not interested in professional ambition, preferring to put all his energies in hot pursuit of wine and women.

Miles is a capable surgeon but more than that, he’s a brilliant doctor – his geniality endears him to staff and patients alike. He just can’t take himself seriously.

Captain Thomas Gillan and Miles come from polar opposite worlds but their friendship feeds off their differences. Miles will seize every opportunity to tease his friend about his rather intense attitude to work and love, yet underneath it all, Miles will do anything to protect Thomas.

The arrival of the volunteers makes Miles’ day and his roving eye quickly falls on Kitty Trevelyan; she’s difficult, impervious to his flirting and it attracts Miles like a moth to a flame.