The Bandy Papers

This combination seems to drive most people (and many animals) he meets to dislike him and as a result he has developed a "stone face" to counter these attacks (a defence that often backfires by inciting his enemies to greater levels of malice).

Since Beamington is said to be "twenty miles" from Ottawa, "a town of sun baked, frost cracked brick, splintering timber, and brown grass" across the river from Quebec, one likely location is Cumberland, Ontario.

After spending some time in the trenches, it was decided that the infantry was not entirely suited to his talents and so he was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, where he stayed on and off for the rest of the war, until being sent to Russia to fight Bolsheviks, where he was captured by Red Russian forces at the Battle of Toulgas on November 11, 1918.

When several of his careers threatened to land him in prison (or worse, Cabinet), Bandy returned to Europe, flying via Iceland, to restore his fortunes through the marketing of the Gander, an amphibious aircraft of his design.

Offered employment in the Maharajah's air force, Bandy continued his long tradition of upsetting the powers that be by accepting this controversial appointment.

In the final volume of the series, Bandy faces Germany's top fighter pilot in combat before returning to the Soviet Union for the Yalta conference at the end of the war, where he has to cope with Stalin's paranoia and secret police.