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Whether charging at the Russians in the Battle of the Light Brigade, yelling in angry defiance at a judge, poisoning his friends, fighting an officer to protect a woman, charging into the darkness to slaughter — and be slaughtered by — the local populace, fighting Napoleon's forces at Waterloo, forging a communistic community, or being jailed for revolutionary activities, there is a specific trait displayed by these four Mad-Bastard-Bambricks that sets them apart, and which, time will only tell, has perhaps been eradicated from our gene pool.

Here is the relationship between all four:

Each of these four people died without offspring.

Three of them had military involvement — one rising to the rank of Captain, another receiving the Victoria Cross, and one fighting in the Charge of the Light-brigade. The last of the M.B.Bs, Robert Prince Bambrick, my great-grand-father's uncle, was the first Bambrick born in Australia, jailed for his part in organising The Great Shearers' Strike of 1891, a strike which led to the foundation of the Labor Party in Australia; he later founded a communistic community in South Australia.

Each of them was a Mad Bastard Bambrick.

Clarification of the title Mad Bastard Bambrick

Bastard, in this case, is not used in the sense of a "child born to an unmarried mother", nor is Mad used in the sense of "mental illness", rather the phrase "Mad Bastard" intends to convey that here we have a person you'd be wise not to cross.