I had a few photographers, great grandad went to South Africa to recover from TB and to set up a photography business. It didn’t quite work out like that! The Anglo Boer war was on so he ended up in Kimberley Town Guard and also worked as a war photographer. His army record states he was a “Sharp Shooter” and I have a spent bullet case which he carried with him. I always wonder if he killed someone with that bullet.
Some of his photographs (I have the originals so am confident in saying that) are on web pages relating to the war and the future King’s visit to SA) others were recently published in a book by someone who colours Boer War images. I wonder what he would have made of it all?