List of Tenko Characters - Other British Characters

Other British Characters

Brigadier Clifford Jefferson Marion's husband. At the beginning of the series, Clifford was increasingly concerned with Marion's wishes to return home to England but changed his mind when it became increasingly evident that Singapore would fall to the Japanese. He waved his wife off on the boat that would lead to her imprisonment. Upon their reunion after liberation, the marriage became extremely strained. Clifford wanted to use Marion's diary from the camp as evidence in the war crimes trial against Major Yamauchi. He couldn't understand Marion's reluctance to settle back into the pre-war way of life and the Jefferson's drifted apart. Clifford felt that Marion was spending too much time with the other internees but Marion felt Clifford only wanted to use her accounts of camp life to further his career. Eventually, they divorced. Clifford Jefferson was played by Jonathan Newth.

Phyllis Bristow Phyllis Bristow was a British RAPWI Officer stationed in Singapore and given the role of repatriating the internees. Bristow found it difficult to control the women based in Raffles Hotel but befriended Alice Courtenay in order to keep her away from Maggie Thorpe, who she felt was leading Alice astray. She was portrayed by Elspet Gray.

Victoria Armstrong Victoria Armstrong was the wife of a British Army officer in Singapore and left on the same boat as her best friend Marion Jefferson. She drowned when the boat was torpedoed. She was played by Wendy Williams.