'''Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB KCIE'''; awarded Queen's Medal for Afghanistan 1841-42, ribbons for honors in Kabul, Jellalabad, Sutlej, Crimea, Indian mutiny and the Second China War, Abyssinia, South Africa, Egypt Queen's Sudan, Third China War, Queen Victoria's Jubilee, Edward VII Coronation, Edward VII Delhi Durbar, George V Coronation; Order of the Elephant (Denmark), Turkish Crimea Medal, Congressional Medal of Honor (USA, post-1904), Civil War Campaign Medal (USA); Southern Cross of Honor (awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to Confederate veterans, a very low-quality specimen of the unofficial ribbon); San Serafino Order of Purity and Truth (4th class), Iron Cross (Prussia/Germany, 1870); Legion of Honor (France), Franco-Prussian War Medal (France); Franco-Prussian War Medal (Germany); Indian War Medal (USA); Khedive's Star (Egypt), Khedive's Sudan Medal 1896 (Egypt); and General Gordon's Khartoum Star.

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FlashMan, poltroon, bully, cheat, scoundrel, womanizer, toady, and thoroughgoing cad, was unwilling participant in almost every significant battle and military drama from the disastrous retreat of the British from Kabul (Afghanistan, 1842) until his death at 93 during the Great War (1915). FlashMan's memoirs have been faithfully transcribed and annotated by the 20th Century's greatest historical novelist, GeorgeMacDonaldFraser.

For more details see http://www.harryflashman.org/ency.htm.
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