In this Kipling work, the title orphan's father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab
I went as far as to make him the son of a private in an Irish 
Battalion, and .... an orphan boy of 13 living with a half-caste woman who smoked 
opium and ... Kim's father, Kimbal O'Hara, a sergeant of the Irish regiment, had 
become an... [DOC] [TLE] Considering Kim's Dual Identity in the Post-colonial Discourse [PAR] fourteen years old, Kipling left school to work in a bank.