Memory

John Baucher

The family headstone of Sir Stephen May of Belfast found in Balmoral CemeteryBalmoral Cemetery
Two of his sons are memorialised Humphry Frederick May, a Capt in the Queens Royal Antrim Rifles and Stephen Brinsley May of the 48th Bengal Native Infantry.
I was reminded of the Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser who's Anti Hero, Flashman is written into historical moments of the Victorian Era as part of the British Empire. He truly is a bastard of the highest order and it is a guilty pleasure to read but the escapades are so well researched that it's difficult not to read them.
MacDonald died on the 2nd Jan this year so this is my tribute to a fine writer who brought history alive for me

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