<Tr> <Th> Family </Th> <Td> Edmund Mainwaring (father) Barry Mainwaring (brother) Elizabeth Mainwaring (wife) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Affiliated with </Th> <Td> Captain in the Home Guard </Td> </Tr> <P> Captain George Mainwaring (/ ˈmænərɪŋ /) is the bank manager and Home Guard platoon commander portrayed by Arthur Lowe on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army, set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington - on - Sea during the Second World War . He has become widely accepted and regarded as a classic British comic character owing to the popularity of both Dad's Army and Lowe's portrayal of him . </P> <P> In the 2016 film based on the sitcom, Mainwaring is played by Toby Jones . </P>

In the tv series dad's army what was captain mainwaring's first name