Harry Wells

Harry G. Wells - affectionately known as the Sarge among his men - was the sergeant and commanding officer of the squad in Dog Soldiers, possessing close ties with all the men. He was injured (and ultimately infected) by a werewolf, leading to Cooper taking command of his squad while he was injury-crippled before the Sarge rejoined in his men's efforts alongside Cooper once his injuries regenerated.

Biography
Wells was friends with Eddie Oswald, who was killed by an anti-tank mine during a sweep along the Iraqi Border.

Wells and his squad are dropped in the Scottish Highlands as part of a supposed training exercise. That night, while the squad are camping, the mutilated corpse of a cow drops down into the camp from a nearby ledge. The squad decides to find how the cow died in the morning.

Wells and his squad follow the trail left by the dead cow, until they see a flare fired into the sky. Following it, the squad finds the ravaged remains of a Special Ops camp, with a traumatized and hypothermic Ryan as the only survivor. As dusk falls, the squad hears the howls of approaching werewolves and retreat into the woods, where they come under attack by the pack. One werewolf manages to badly wound Wells by tearing him across the stomach, before the latter is saved by Cooper.

Saved by a passing Megan, the squad seeks shelter at a deserted cottage to treat Wells' wounds. Cooper and Megan treat Wells' wounds by gluing his exposed guts back together, after which Wells makes a rapid recovery. Cooper, Wells, Megan and Spoon interrogate Ryan, who reveals that Wells and his squad were sent to the Highlands as bait to capture a werewolf for the Special Weapons Division. Wells, in a fit of rage, throws Ryan across the room. The latter then transforms into a werewolf and escapes. While the four remaining are planning an attack on the barn, where they believe the werewolves are hiding, Wells discovers that through his werewolf-inflicted wounds, he too has been infected and will soon become a werewolf.

After Cooper destroys the barn, Megan reveals that she tricked the soldiers into doing so to destroy their last means of escape. She also reveals that she too is a werewolf, and gives in and transforms. Wells then shoots her in the eye as three werewolves enter the cottage and attack. Wells and Cooper eventually escape the werewolves and try to hide in a bedroom wardrobe, where they find the bones of the family's previous victims. The werewolves then try to break into the wardrobe, forcing Wells to shoot through the floor into the kitchen downstairs to escape. As Wells begins to transform, he forces Cooper to take shelter in the cellar with Sam. The werewolves enter the kitchen as Wells transforms, but the latter retains his human mind just long enough to cut the gas line and ignite the oven, blowing up the cottage and killing them all.

Personality
Harry Wells was a slightly laid-back commander of his squad who had a forgiving and lenient attitude towards his soldiers' antics when there wasn't real danger, such as when he loaned his wristwatch to Spoon after the latter left his own back at the base. He frequently displayed a witty sense of humour towards his men in his use of words, such as when making a Red Riding Hood comment while being otherwise-serious, instructing his men to switch to using live ammunition.

The Sarge was a competent commander, knowing when to fluidly deem the training exercise over and switch to ammunition against hostile targets, and having priorities such as communications straight when discovering Ryan's destroyed camp. In spite of his attitude towards his men, the Sarge maintained very close emotional bonds with all of them. In stark contrast to Ryan, the Sarge valued his own men over following orders, exploding with rage alongside Cooper over the deaths of his men when they discovered Ryan's use of them as bait. The Sarge had an especially close bond with Cooper out of his soldiers bordering on surrogate father-son relationship, having comforting words with Cooper when the latter felt dismayed about failing selection. He also recognised Cooper's leadership skills, telling Cooper the squad was his when the Sarge was mortally injured and Cooper had effectively filled his role commanding the squad, as well as giving Cooper words of wisdom concerning things the latter hadn't yet learned about being in command.

The Sarge was unafraid to sacrifice and give up his own life in combat situations, such as when he insisted Cooper take shelter while the Sarge sacrificed himself and the other werewolves, or when he yelled at Cooper to leave him after he was partially disemboweled by a werewolf - in both cases, Cooper was defiant bordering on exasperated, refusing to leave the Sarge behind. However, the Sarge was by no means unnecessarily suicidal, at one point drunkenly thanking Cooper for saving him in the disembowelment instance. It's implied the Sarge overall had an accepting attitude of casualties in combat in spite of his wartime experience which his squad lacked, comforting Cooper when it became clear he was transforming into a werewolf with the words; "I just didn't make it out this time, that's all." Indeed, the Sarge reacted with significantly more control than Cooper despite their mutual anger, to discovering the last of the Sarge's men besides Cooper had been killed by the werewolves. The Sarge didn't have a high pain tolerance; screaming and telling Cooper to leave him after he was severely injured, and eventually telling Cooper to knock him out when Cooper and Megan attempted sealing his wounds with superglue, after downing whiskey failed to mute the Sarge's agony.

The Sarge was open-minded, stating he was taught to keep a very open mind by the eerie occurrence with Eddie Oswald's devil-tattoo - he furthermore stated this incident led him to develop a fear of such eerie goings-on. Indeed, when Cooper and the remaining soldiers were faced with conclusive proof that their enemy were indeed literal werewolves, the Sarge responded to Cooper's reasoning that the Uath's were the werewolves by commenting it explained why the werewolves were attacking so relentlessly after the soldiers had taken their cottage.

The Sarge evidently loved Annie very much - he admitted that never seeing her again terrified him, he chose to look at his photo of her twice when he believed he was likely to die, and he stated in a soft voice that he wanted Cooper to let him end his own life partly to spare Cooper having to explain killing the Sarge himself to Annie. He apparently had some significant respect for women in spite of his loving relationship, such as when he politely thanked Megan for passing him his gun despite his intense pain and exasperation.