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As I have just restored this ancient photograph of my Grandfather, I decided to give it some exposure. He was a Royal Lancer, in the British forces, and this was taken just prior to embarkation for Africa, where he fought in the Boer war, in the late 1800's. He sustained a leg wound, which never healed, and wore a bandage around his calf, for the rest of his life. I never saw him limp, and he dug a garden every year, till he was in his seventies. He died in 1963, at the age of 83.