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Camp Follower
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In most wars, you have a bunch of men far from home, who are scared for their lives every day. Camp followers are those people who go with these men, and they originally consisted of the soldiers' wives or mistresses, merchants, and others who serviced and supplied the combatants. Up through the mid-19th century, the vast majority of female camp followers were soldiers' wives, and women of every socioeconomic class accompanied armies, creating a military community. They nursed, sewed, washed, and acted as merchants. Outright prostitution was often restricted or, in some cases, banned — sometimes to maintain good military order and discipline or to maintain the dignity of more "legitimate" camp followers. In later wars, camp followers more often consisted of wartime prostitutes — women who provided companionship to soldiers or sailors. Not to be confused with a Groupie, a Fangirl, or a follower who is Camp. Examples |
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Total War: Rome II and Total War: Attila can allow experienced armies to get a tradition that indicates the camp following of the army is so significant, it provides bonuses to the main army (such as reduced upkeep, or heightened morale). Attila will have armies exaggerate the trope while their faction is migrating - the entire rest of the faction are the camp followers of its armies, and all of the buildings used by their people are temporary ones that come into effect only while its army is encamped until the faction stops migrating. | |
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In the Honor Harrington series, the Royal Manticoran Navy will, providing the destination area isn't in a state of active combat, transport the spouses of officers and ratings aboard ships proceeding to the region in question on a space-available basis, and sometimes even allocates transport ships for the purpose. After Sir Aivars Terekhov is rotated back to the Talbott Quadrant, his wife Sinead requests passage aboard a friend's ship. There are a few awkward moments once she arrives in Talbott because the space in which Sir Aivars and his squadron are currently operating is an active combat zone (Admiral Khumalo, commanding RMN forces in the Quadrant, is unwilling to provide her with further assistance to reach her destination for that reason), but Sinead won't let that get in her way, and makes her own way to Montana, her husband's most recently reported port of call. | |
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Mount & Blade has this as a rank for female soldiers, one step above the 'Peasant Woman' unit. Unfortunately, while they had decent trade skills which would normally be good for getting minor discounts (good for about 8% off), the Trade skill on non-hero units is meaningless because their bonuses can't apply to the party, only themselves, and only the leader can go shopping. | |
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Not quite the same thing, but some Playboy playmates turn up to entertain the troops in Apocalypse Now. Based on an actual visit. Gets a bit closer to the trope in the Redux version; the playmates' transport breaks down and the characters in the main party offer to fix it... in exchange for some private time with the playmates. Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. |
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On Sharpe, women and children are frequently seen following British and French troops on campaign. The women provide laundry services and aid to the wounded while the children run errands. Sharpe also has a tendency to pick up women who end up tagging along for an adventure or two. | |
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Mollie Bean in The Guns of the South combines this with Sweet Polly Oliver. Note she's based on a real person. (The Real Life model was wounded at Gettysburg, her true gender identity discovered, and she was sent home; in the book, Mollie is also wounded at that battle but her injury was apparently not serious enough to lead to her secret being discovered by the attending doctor.) | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition includes Camp Follower as a basic Career that trains a broad range of practical skills. Flavor Text describes them as a versatile, surprisingly well-organized group who do lots of odd jobs around the camp, as well as scavenging and "personal companionship". | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Invoked by name. Liz is explaining to Ch'vorthq that when her boyfriend rejoined the Toughs, she came along too, and... | |
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Codex Alera: A brothel owned by one of these shows up in the third book, Captain's Fury. Tavi tends to use it just for the bath (due to his immediate superior placing him on indefinite latrine duty for thwarting his embezzlement scheme, Tavi was seriously in need of a bath regularly). After most of the command structure of his Legion is blown up by Canim sorcery, he hires the madam, who's shown to be a keen businesswoman and good with people, as his Tribune Logistica—basically, supply officer. Because of how crafting works, the prostitutes themselves are relatively strong earthcrafters (because you can inspire lust with earthcraft ... we don't know either but that's how it works). When Tavi needs to build large defensive emplacements, he drafts the prostitutes. A large portion of the camp followers are actually young women serving a tour of duty with the legions (all young people are required to serve in the legions, men as soldiers, women as camp followers). Their primary purpose is to provide housekeeping services for the soldiers such as cooking and cleaning. While they are not prostitutes it's not uncommon for them to end up marrying a soldier (and often pregnant) and the books hint that this is actually the main purpose of the program. The Alerans have camp followers to thank for their civilization, as they are descended from a Lost Roman Legion that crossed into Another Dimension long ago. Had the soldiers been alone, they would have died out, but enough female camp followers and Germanic local people came along to establish a viable breeding population, which eventually grew into the vast Aleran empire. |
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The Stormlight Archive: It's repeatedly mentioned that the bulk of any army actually consists of the workers and support staff. In fact, noble officers are expected to bring their wives to war with them; the husbands fight on the battlefield, while the wives keep track of logistics back in camp. By the time the story starts, the armies of the ten Alethi princedoms have been camped at the edge of the Shattered Plains for six years, so they've turned from "armies with camp followers" to "ten small cities with their own armies." | |
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In Mediterraneo, a troop of Italian soldiers is sent to a Greek island during World War II. While most of the locals are hiding, a prostitute (played by Vana Barba) stays to offer her services. She later marries one of the soldiers. | |
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James Jones' From Here to Eternity has Alma, Prewitt's love interest. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: During the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, Bajoran women were taken to be used as comfort women for Cardassian soldiers. | |
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Camp followers are absent from the titular mercenary company of the The Black Company, and the only mention they get is a sentence-long aside to explain why they’re absent: the Black Company’s captain doesn’t tolerate any and drives them off. New recruits must leave their old lives behind and be ready to uproot from their latest garrison at a moment’s notice, so they also have no families to tow. | |
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Band of Brothers: One episode shows the men liberating a Dutch city - where the people are taking the opportunity to shave and humiliate the women who slept with Germans. | |
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In Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, the soldiers visit a camp brothel in order to steal women's clothes for the purposes of an Operation Washerwomen. Ironically, the soldiers are all Sweet Polly Olivers anyway, but left most of their clothes at home. They also get advised that if they don't visit the "Soiled Doves", people might get suspicious. Sgt Jackrum always brought a book to read. |
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In Red River (1995), Yuri and her friends visit a palace where the ruler, in a fit of apathy, brought in a ton of prostitutes and had his soldiers have an orgy, ignoring the fact that Egyptian forces were on their way and everyone needed to get ready to fight. While Yuri initially orders all the prostitutes out, she's told that their presence in places like that are actually common and it's good to have some around for stress relief for the soldiers. This has her reconsider and say that any prostitutes who want to stay can. | |
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Possibly in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, as the resistance base in Heartland doubles as a refugee camp, with at least one crying infant living alongside rebel soldiers. Since the camp is made up of tents and given the nature of the war, it's pretty likely that the resistance moves around. It's later confirmed that some refugees began living wherever the resistance forms a base for their own protection, but after most of them were carded people just started making shelters wherever they could. |
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What with M*A*S*H being a show about how a military unit deals with war, these tend to show up fairly frequently. | |
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Wagons West: in Illinois!, during their first meeting the Baroness warns Henry about the camp followers along the Prussian lines; Henry assures her he avoids them entirely. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Tyrion Lannister enlists the services of one such camp follower called Shae and later smuggles her into the city to be his concubine. Camp followers or washerwomen (most of whom do very little washing) are often mentioned in ASOIAF, they can be seen following the Freys, the Boltons, and the Lannisters (and, presumably, every other army). Pretty Pia when Castle Harrenhall is occupied by the Lannister armies. Unfortunately this leaves her open to abuse, and Jaime Lannister ends up taking her with him to protect her and, ironically, to do his washing (a task his squires think is beneath them). |
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The regiments of the Sabbat Crusade in Gaunt's Ghosts are shown to be accompanied on their travels by various wives, lovers, children, and assorted men and women of both business and pleasure. They're even assigned their own decks on the leviathan troop transports. The number of camp followers is said to match or even exceed the actual regiment in size. | |
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In the Sword of Truth, camp followers of all kinds are portrayed as very bad people. The D'Harans target the Imperial Order camp whenever they can, not having any qualms about having denied the Imperial Order any service they can, whether it's that kind of service, or blacksmithing or cleaning or anything else that could give the Imperial Order any advantage. | |
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Nately has a favorite hooker in Catch-22 with whom he has fallen in love. She is referred to as "Nately's Whore" throughout. | |
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Game of Thrones: Shae begins as this before stepping up to be The Mistress. | |
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The Reynard Cycle: Nobel's army in The Baron of Maleperduys is accompanied by several stripes of these. Some are the highly respected priestesses of Sphinx, while others are clearly sex slaves. The majority of them appear to be run of the mill prostitutes. | |
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In one Beetle Bailey strip, Rolf, the civilian tennis instructor is recognized as a Rare Male Example by General Halftrack and that the actual tennis lessons that he gives the women are really foreplay when Miss Buxley tells him "I have a tennis lesson on my lunch hour.". General Halftrack then says to Major Greenbrass, "What gets me is that she pays him.". | |
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At the beginning of Sharpe's Rifles, a bunch of drunken redcoats are seen sleeping with some local women who have turned to prostitution. Later in the book, Sharpe has an argument with the Spanish officer he's teamed up with while fondling a prostitute. He doesn't sleep with her. | |
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Nicholette in Seven Men of Gascony. In some ways, she is a subversion as she is not only a wine seller rather than a prostitute but she is almost prudish for the circumstances, being married to every one of the soldiers she serviced(one at a time of course until he was killed). The only irregularity was that her first husband was married in a French Old Soldier ritual rather than legally. | |
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Marg Helgenberger's character on China Beach. | |
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In Enemy at the Door, set in German-occupied Guernsey during World War II, the episode "The Prussian Officer" revolves around an establishment of French prostitutes imported to the island for the use of the German soldiers. | |
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The Aubrey-Maturin series is rife with whores. Stephen blames this on the land rather than the sailors. In a Real Life parallel to the situation described in the Honor Harrington series (see below), officers' wives who wanted to be close to their husbands could request passage aboard Royal Navy vessels headed for the port closest to their husbands' operating stations. In The Mauritius Command Lady Clonfert, the wife of one of the captains in Jack Aubrey's new squadron, shows up at his home to beg passage to the Cape. Jack is somewhat miffed by the rather peremptory way in which the request is made (Lord Clonfert is an English aristocrat with an Irish title), but also is aware that refusing her wouldn't look good. He manages to avoid having her on his ship through a bit of Loophole Abuse mixed with Exact Words where he strictly specifies that she has to be at the dock, ready to go, by a certain date, and when she gets delayed by a bit, off he goes. (While Lord Clonfert is irritated, Jack has ironclad cover in that the Royal Navy does impose very strict requirements for ships to raise anchor and get underway - to "miss one's tide" is a Very Bad Thing. (On a different occasion, when one of Jack's commands is unavoidably delayed getting out of port, he and his officers have a few bad moments when they wonder if they will be called back ashore to explain to the Port Admiral why they didn't put out to sea at the specified time.) |
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The ironically-named Chastity eventually becomes one of these in Vile Bodies. | |
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In the Belisarius Series, after Belisarius recaptures a Persian city his army is crowded with Persian civilians clinging to the Romans for protection. This is Truth in Television; many camp followers in history were simply seeking protection from the other army or from the opportunistic banditry that always comes when war breaks down law and order. Belisarius is also experienced enough that, when one of his subordinates suggests forbidding the camp followers, he knows that will just result in the camp followers still following, but at a larger distance; instead, he starts to bring the camp followers under at least some of the army discipline. | |
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Gretchen Richter, one of the major characters in the 1632 series is a former camp follower who was rescued and promptly married by one of the time-displaced Americans. Also she's badass. Later on in the series (particularly in several of the "Grantville Gazette" short stories), the army of the United States of Europe (i.e., Germany) regularizes the status of camp followers, organizing them under military authority and discipline - in fact, some of the women devise and wear uniforms of their own - and tasking them with providing support services (cooking, cleaning, nursing, etc.) to the troops as described above. | |
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