When Sybil is at the breakfast table reading the letter of the death of another friend, she folds it closed and looks up. The camera cuts to Lord Grantham for a line but when it cuts back to Sybil, her head is down and she is reading the open letter again.
When the orchestra is playing for the hospital opening in November 1916, the flags suspended over the stage include that of Greece, which did not enter the First World War until 2 July 1917. In addition to this, the Greek flag shown was not adopted as the national flag until 1969.
Mosley is worried he'll be drafted into the Army. But in 1916, the age limit for conscription was forty, and we know Mosley was in his mid forties in 1916.
In the opening battle scene, one of the soldiers calls Matthew Crawley played by Dan Stevens "Sgt. Stevens" instead of "Sgt. Crawley."
It is Matthew talking to St. Stevens not someone else calling him by his real life last name.
It is Matthew talking to St. Stevens not someone else calling him by his real life last name.
Lord Grantham is depressed because the North Riding Volunteers want him as a mascot, and not to serve with them in the field. Why are the North Riding Volunteers still in England. Every Territorial Force (TA) battalion had been in France or further afield since 1915, and this was 1916.
The new maid uses the trendy modern term, "Just Sayin'".
Mrs. Bates uses the modern term "As If" to her husband.
Daisy uses the phrase Tell you what which is not something a girl from Yorkshire would use in 1916.