In answer to a question recently posted in your FAQs. The phrase a killing officer / murdering officer came from the first Sharpe film. When Sharpe makes Harper into a Sargent Harper says he will never be a proper Sargent. Sharpe replies so, I’ll never be a proper officer. Sgt. Harper tells Sharpe he will make a grand killing officer, an officer that gets you killed by mistake. Harper refers to Major Hogan as a murdering officer who gets you killed for a reason. Craig Chapman

Dear Bernard, I hope this information is of use to you. You appealed for help regarding the distinction made between killing and murdering officers. I’m not sure that the quote ever appeared in the Sharpe novels but it definitely appeared in the TV version of Sharpe’s Rifles in a conversation between Sharpe and Harper. Please continue writing – I love your books. Kind Regards, Dee

The reference to a killing officer and murdering officer is in the first Sharpe film, Sharpe’s Rifles. Not sure if it was taken from the book. J. Guenther