Thank you. Mostly though it was a pleasure as I really, really like your writing. It has been most frustrating combing through your work and not leaving feedback, but I thought that a spate of commentary on everything you wrote by one person involved in the same anonmous gift giving fest ...might just be a bit of a giveaway. So in due course I shall go and remedy that.
It is not quite the image I had in mind and the scan does no justice to Holmes (who has managed to get himself bleached out), but it is primarily meant to be about Watson. If there is one time to be bereft, it is when you are mourning the loss of the better part of a regiment. Timing and space have always been things Holmes is good at.
My not-so-inner-historian got a bit pernickety. Watson's uniform is correct to within five years - I could only find one dress uniform for the Berkshire's and it was a bit later (although handily that of a surgeon), when uniforms had undergone some changes. Same as ranking insignia - it shouldn't be on the cuffs, but eh.. hard to see his left shoulder.
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It is not quite the image I had in mind and the scan does no justice to Holmes (who has managed to get himself bleached out), but it is primarily meant to be about Watson. If there is one time to be bereft, it is when you are mourning the loss of the better part of a regiment. Timing and space have always been things Holmes is good at.
My not-so-inner-historian got a bit pernickety. Watson's uniform is correct to within five years - I could only find one dress uniform for the Berkshire's and it was a bit later (although handily that of a surgeon), when uniforms had undergone some changes. Same as ranking insignia - it shouldn't be on the cuffs, but eh.. hard to see his left shoulder.