All Quiet On The Preston Front - Principal Characters

Principal Characters

• Private David 'Hodge' Gadd, a garden centre assistant (Colin Buchanan)
• Private Wayne 'Eric' Disley, Hodge's best friend, a bit of a loser (Paul Haigh)
• Private Dawn Lomax, a trainee teacher (although she later leaves college) and new recruit to the transport section, Eric's girlfriend (later wife) (Caroline Catz)
• Private Simon 'Spock' Matlock, a history teacher and intellectual (Stephen Tompkinson in series one, Alistair MacGowan thereafter)
• Private Tony 'Lloydy' Lloyd, a farm labourer (later wealthy after inventing a successful boardgame), the platoon clown (Adrian Hood)
• Private (later Lance-Corporal) Derek 'Diesel' Moyle, a garage owner (Tony Marshall)
• Corporal (later Officer Cadet) Alison 'Ally' Minshull, NCO in charge of the transport section, Spock's sister, unhappily married to a local solicitor (Kate Gartside)
• Corporal (later Sergeant) Peter 'Pete' Polson, the friends' section commander, a former regular NCO, now manager of a hotel leisure centre (David MacCreedy)
• Jeanetta Scarry, an older woman with whom Hodge had a one-night stand five years before (Susan Wooldridge in series one and two, Carolyn Pickles theafter)
• Kirsty, Jeanetta's and Hodge's young daughter (Holly Grainger)
• Lieutenant Carl Rundle, the platoon commander, a junior hotel manager, in love with Ally (Keiran Flynn)
• Laura Delooze, a singer and waitress, briefly Hodge's girlfriend (Lucy Akhurst)
• Peter Wang, owner of the local Chinese restaurant (Ozzie Yue)
• Melanie 'Mel' Polson, Polson's younger sister, later Hodge's girlfriend (Angela Lonsdale; series three only)
• Mrs Ruddock, owner of the garden centre where Hodge works (Matyelock Gibbs; series one and three)
• Declan, a plastic surgeon, later Jeanetta's boyfriend (Oliver Cotton; series three only)