Soldier Sharp-The Rat of the Rifles

From the first ("Great news chaps!") merged issue of Battle & Valiant dated, 23 October 1976. This strip comes over from Valiant with nice art by Joe Colquhoun. Kind of an unusual strip this one. Sharp was an interesting character: he was the antithisis of the usual 'hero' being an utter scumbag, who'd sell his own mother to save his skin. From what I remember, he had his comeuppance in the end...