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Carte de visite portrait photograph of Colour Sergeant Leopold Duffy, South Lancashire Regiment, 1901-1902. Taken in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, by T Dickinson, Imperial Studio. C/Sgt Duffy is wearing riding trousers with puttees, spurs on his boots and a tunic with regimental collar badges. He holds a cane and his foreign service helmet. The insignia of a Colour Sergeant (three chevrons with a crown above) can be seen on his shoulder. Duffy had enlisted in the South Lancashire Regiment as a Private in 1893. After serving initially in England and Ireland he went to South Africa during the Boer War, where he was promoted to Colour Sergeant in the field in 1901, before proceeding to India in 1903. He remained in India through the First World War, becoming an officer and rising to the rank of Captain. He is the father of war artist Louis C Duffy (1908-1998). From a collection of 7 photographs and an archive relating to the service of Sgt (later Captain) Leopold Duffy, 1st Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, 1895-1905 (c). Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).

Boer War (1899-1902)