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Sketches for historical and fictional characters in my AU China fiction:

The Shanghai Volunteer Corps (fictional):

Lt. Col. Holliway: British commanding officer in Shanghai, Holliway had his baptism of fire with the Irish Rifles in the Great War. Against all recommendations but asumming (correctly) that the Japanese will enslave his men and work them all to death in some camp, Holliway decides to break out and reach the Qing Army lines and continue fighting or go down trying.

CSgt. Meechan: the Highlander bandmaster and piper of the Scottish Company. He is with Holliway and the others in the mutiny against the Municipal authorities that are about to surrender to the Japanese... And insists that such a bold action must be heralded by the proper bagpipe tune, staring directly at the enemy's eyes like a giant, metaphorical, middle finger.

Sikh Punjabis: Recruited in British India, these men composed the majority of the rank and file in Shanghai and Hong Kong's police forces. Holliway counts on them to join his break out attempt, even against the wishes of defeatist officers.

Nanking Safety Zone (historical):
John Rabe: Commercial representative for Siemens AG in China, he first knew Puyi in 1927 qhen the Emperor contracted the Germans to build a eletrict system for the Imperial Palace in Mukden. Ten years later, Rabe is trying everything, from using his status as a Nazi Party member to writting for help from the very top (Hitler, Puyi, Chiang kai-shek and others) to save the 200 thousand people in the Nanking Safety Zone.

John Maggee: An American reverend and missionary, Maggee joins Rabe and others to oversee the Safety Zone, and his clandestine films and photographs are to this day the main proof of the Nanking Massacre. Trapped in a ring of Hell by his own will, Maggee must provide comfort to people who, by all accounts, were abandoned even by God.

Minnie Vautrin: Another American missionary and president of the Ginling College, Vautrin joins the Safety Committee to protect the young girls of the orgy of mass murder and rape. Unfortunately for her, the Japanese Army isn't impressed by her morals and proceed to brutalize every Chinese female from 8 to 80 right before Vautrin's eyes.

Description
Sketches for historical and fictional characters in my AU China fiction:

The Shanghai Volunteer Corps (fictional):

Lt. Col. Holliway: British commanding officer in Shanghai, Holliway had his baptism of fire with the Irish Rifles in the Great War. Against all recommendations but asumming (correctly) that the Japanese will enslave his men and work them all to death in some camp, Holliway decides to break out and reach the Qing Army lines and continue fighting or go down trying.

CSgt. Meechan: the Highlander bandmaster and piper of the Scottish Company. He is with Holliway and the others in the mutiny against the Municipal authorities that are about to surrender to the Japanese... And insists that such a bold action must be heralded by the proper bagpipe tune, staring directly at the enemy's eyes like a giant, metaphorical, middle finger.

Sikh Punjabis: Recruited in British India, these men composed the majority of the rank and file in Shanghai and Hong Kong's police forces. Holliway counts on them to join his break out attempt, even against the wishes of defeatist officers.

Nanking Safety Zone (historical):
John Rabe: Commercial representative for Siemens AG in China, he first knew Puyi in 1927 qhen the Emperor contracted the Germans to build a eletrict system for the Imperial Palace in Mukden. Ten years later, Rabe is trying everything, from using his status as a Nazi Party member to writting for help from the very top (Hitler, Puyi, Chiang kai-shek and others) to save the 200 thousand people in the Nanking Safety Zone.

John Maggee: An American reverend and missionary, Maggee joins Rabe and others to oversee the Safety Zone, and his clandestine films and photographs are to this day the main proof of the Nanking Massacre. Trapped in a ring of Hell by his own will, Maggee must provide comfort to people who, by all accounts, were abandoned even by God.

Minnie Vautrin: Another American missionary and president of the Ginling College, Vautrin joins the Safety Committee to protect the young girls of the orgy of mass murder and rape. Unfortunately for her, the Japanese Army isn't impressed by her morals and proceed to brutalize every Chinese female from 8 to 80 right before Vautrin's eyes.