# No More Parades — Character guide

> Key figures in No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford.

- [Christopher Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/christopher_tietjens.md): A brilliant, honorable Yorkshire landowner and captain in the trenches, he recapitulates his wrecked marriage while shells fall and men go mad around him.
- [Sylvia Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/sylvia_tietjens.md): Christopher's beautiful, faithless wife, whose vindictive passions and sudden returns from a Birkenhead convent keep his marriage a wound that will not close.
- [General Lord Edward Campion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/general_campion.md): A senior general of the old military establishment, whose favor and displeasure shape the fates of the officers beneath him.
- [Valentine Wannop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/valentine_wannop.md): A young suffragist and intellectual whose connection to Tietjens runs deeper than propriety allows, and whose fate he cannot stop weighing.
- [Mark Tietjens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/mark_tietjens.md): Christopher's older brother, a cold, powerful figure of the Yorkshire family whose judgments and silences carry their own kind of force.
- [Major Perowne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/perowne.md): A pompous, incompetent major and Sylvia's lover, whose vanity and ineptitude make him a walking embarrassment to the officers around him.
- [Colonel Levin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/levin.md): Levin moves between the polished, unreadable General Campion and the wrecked dignity of Tietjens, signalling with his eyes what he cannot say aloud. He cares — 'Do you suppose I don't care what happens to you?' — yet his
- [Sergeant-Major Cowley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/sergeant_major_cowley.md): Cowley is the practical spine of Tietjens' unit, translating chaos — a Canadian draft that stampedes at its first German plane — into something like order. He reports the men's panic without contempt and their jokes with
- [Captain Mackenzie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/captain_mackenzie.md): Mackenzie shares Tietjens' hut and his contempt for the mountain of paperwork descending from every headquarters in France. Their sparring — rhymes for a sonnet against Latin hexameters in three minutes — is half hostili
- [Captain McKechnie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/captain_mckechnie.md): McKechnie nurses old injuries and new slights, his bitterness sharpened by the company of dubious men like the returned Jonce or Evanns. He watches Tietjens with an envy that has nothing to do with rank and everything to
- [O Nine Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/o_nine_morgan.md): O Nine Morgan comes from the Rhondda, unmarried, and burns with fury because the elder officer refused him leave to chase the buyer of his wife's laundry. He is one of the two men on the hut floor, his red lips still tal
- [General O'Hara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/general_ohara.md): An Irish general involved in military administration.
- [Lieutenant Hotchkiss](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/lieutenant_hotchkiss.md): A young officer in Tietjens' unit.
- [Sir Vincent Macmaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_more_parades_se/characters/sir_vincent_macmaster.md): A government official and acquaintance of Tietjens.

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