John Watson's Character Sketch In Sherlock Holmes

A character sketch is a complete and abridged portrayal of a particular person, which includes both physical and character traits. John Watson is a doctor who is believed to be the incarnation of Conan Doyle himself in Sherlock Holmes stories. In terms of his physical appearance, it is practically limited description of him for most stories are in a first-person narrative from Watson. His sketch is in pieces and bits from the conversation between him and others throughout the whole stories.
It seems he is discharged because of an injury in Afghanistan war. He informs ‘I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail Bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery’(Doyle 2011c: 6). Yet, in The Sign of the Four, he states ‘[I] sat nursing my wounded leg. I had had a Jezail bullet through it some time before, and thought it did not prevent me from walking it ached wearily at every change of the weather’(Doyle 2006: 2). In The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, the only other mention of the injury, he narrates ambiguously ‘the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence’(Doyle 2011b: 239). It is hard to tell which position Watson does wound, but conclusively he seems to be killed nearly and injured seriously in the long and difficult evacuation from the war, except for he manages to stroll across the moor with little obstacle in The Hound of Baskervilles. When Watson returns from Afghanistan