Moving left to right, the cast of characters are;
Lieutenant Micklewhite.
Cashiered for “looting while intoxicated”.
Re-enlisted using an alias, calling himself Peachy Carnehan.
Later promoted to Sergeant.
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Aide-de-Camp to the King of Kafiristan.
An unidentified Private soldier rumored to be from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Court-martialed and dishonorably discharged for “looting while intoxicated”.
Also, re-enlisted using an alias, calling himself Daniel Dravot.
Later promoted to Sergeant.
Together with Sgt. Carnehan, was reputed to be affiliated with the same Masonic Lodge in Lahore as the assistant editor of a local newspaper, the “Civil and Military Gazette”, where it was furtively whispered in certain London Gentleman’s Clubs, they assisted him bake exceedingly good cakes
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King of Kafiristan.
Flashman.
Had recently served as detached Political Officer at the court of Indian heroine, Lakshmi Bai the Rani of Jhansi. Who, on account of her epic career as a rebel leader and somewhat inevitable demise in battle, was unjustly derided by the British gutter press as “The Jezebel of India”.
Anyway, getting back to Flashman’s adventures;
Survivor of the uprising at Meerut and briefly served as a member of “Rowbotham’s Mosstroopers”.
Also survived Wheeler’s entrenchment, escaping the massacre at Suti Chowra Ghat, Cawnpore, by the skin of his teeth.
Subsequently assigned, not without due protest, to the commissariat support element of the Lucknow Relief Force.
Later promoted to General, Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE, etc.
Appointed by a naïve Queen Victoria as honorary president of the famous charitable institute, “Mission for the Reclamation of Reduced Females”. In which duties he took a proactive and diligent interest, (by all accounts).
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Debatable; but acting on a friendly suggestion from kindly old Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck to impersonate, Prince Carl Gustaf, and then entering into a bigamous marriage with Duchess Irma of Strackenz, doesn’t count.
However, military service as Sergeant-General of Mad Queen Ranavalona’s
Armed Forces of Madagascar must surely be considered.
Havildar Shadwell Gupta Singh.
A deserter from the Sikh Khalsa and now masquerading as an Afghan trooper in The Corps of Guides for reasons as yet unknown. Although I’d hazard he was also kicked out of the military for “looting while intoxicated”. It’s a rather familiar story.
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Butler at Gandamak Lodge, Ashby, Leicestershire. Flashman’s opulent retirement home, funded by a lifetime of ill-gotten gains.
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