Major Brabazon-Plank (who appears in the Uncle Fred novel Uncle Dynamite) and Major Plank (who appears in the Jeeves novels Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) have been interpreted by some Wodehouse scholars as being the same character,[1][2] while others have described them as being two similar but separate characters.
While in Peru, Major Plank judged a bonny baby competition, where the mother of one of the honourable mentions was unhappy with the results and stabbed him in the leg.
Visiting Ashenden Manor, he finds Uncle Fred, whom he knew at Eton, usurping his identity.
[5] In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, Major Plank is a retired explorer.
An elderly, tanned, square-faced man, he was an explorer in Brazil and now lives in a house that he inherited from his godfather in Hockley-cum-Meston.
[8] Major Plank was portrayed by Norman Rodway in the Jeeves and Wooster episode "Trouble at Totleigh Towers".