Colonel Sir HP FlashmanVC SASSL#535

Character: b 1822, s. H. Flashman, Esq., Ashby and Hon. Alicia Paget; educ. Rugby School. m. Elspeth Rennie Morrison, d. Lord Paisley; one s., one d. Colours purchased, cornet 11th LD, 1838 {redesig. 11th H, Prince Albert's Own};
Served Afghanistan, 1841-42 (staff, medals, thanks of Parliament, interview with Wellington, HM's Victoria & Albert, captain); 1st Sikh War (staff, medals); Crimea (colonel 17th L by Royal Order, staff, Balaklava, p.o.w., medals); Indian mutiny (staff, Lucknow, etc., VC, KCB, KCIE); China, Taiping Rebellion (staff, p.o.w., medals).
Served US Army (major, Union forces, 1862, Libby Prison, Medal of honour; colonel (staff) Army of the Confederacy, 1863, letter of thanks Pres. Jefferson Davis, Gettysburg, Brandy Station, etc..); Abyssinian War (staff, Magdala, medals); Franco-Prussian War (staff, Chevalier, L`egion d 'Honneur); Ashanti War (staff, medals); Zulu War (staff, Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift, etc., medals, brig. general); Egyptian War (staff, medals); Sudan (staff, Gen. Gordon's Khartoum Star); Boxer Rebellion (staff, Pekin Residency, medals); regularly commanded to court.
Travelled extensively in military and civilian capacities; a.d.c. Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (San Serafino Order of Purity & Truth, 4th class); milit. advisor, HM Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar; chief of staff to Rajah of Sarawak; J.B. Hickock's dep. marshall, US; secret service agent, US; R`egiment 'Etrangere, L`arm'ee Francaise; British observer, translator for the US Commission, Treaty Negotiations Sioux & N. Cheyenne Nations; special milit. detach. German states, Bavaria, Prussia; foreign court serv. Duchy of Strackenz, Schleswig-Holstein question, (Danish Order of the Elephant); wagon-train capt., scout, indian-fighter, "49er", gold rushes California, US & Victoria, Australia; observed War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay; witness, raid on Harper's Ferry Arsenal, Battle on the Greasy Grass, Col. J.S. "Tiger Jack" Moran's arrest; Tranby-Croft Affair; Pitched 1st hat trick in sport's literature, for Mynn's Casuals against All-England XI, Lord's, June 1843; observed 1st HeavyWeight title fight, Sullivan/Ryan, Miss. City, Miss. US, 7 Feb. 1882. Bernier/Flashman duel, pistoles, deloped; Bismarck/Flashman duel, Hapsberg style; Flashman/Starnberg duel, sabre's; Flashman/Nuget-Hare duel, bowie knife/tomahawk; Chmn, Flashman and Bottomley, Ltd.; dir. British Opium Trading Co.; governor, Rugby School; hon. pres. Mission for Reclamation of Reduced Females. Publications: Dawns and Departures of a Soldier's Life; Twixt Cossack and Cannon; The Case Against Army Reform. Clubs; White's, United Service, Blackjack (Batavia). Recreation: oriental studies, angling. Add. Gandamack Lodge, Ashby, Leics. From Who's Who, 1909 edition.

How I picked my Alias: While in school I started haunting Used Bookstores, on one of these Trips I ran across "Flashman" the 1st volume in the Flashman Papers [there are 10 in all Published so far] and I was immediately addicted to the detriment of all else when a new Volume was acquired. So when I found EoT-SASS back in "82"-"83" who else but Flash Harry Would be the perfect moniker for me.