![]() ![]() ![]() When he returned to England to recuperate from the war, he was operated on by an army surgeon he was glad to have the free service, but had no choice in the surgeon, and the one who operated on him botched the job somewhat, so that throughout the remainder of his life, he had trouble breathing through one nostril. Part of his breathing problems came from a battered nose, which he got while at Charterhouse, a British prep school by “playing rugger with soccer players.” Boxing in the army worsened the condition of his nose. His war experiences exacerbated lung problems he had all his life despite these problems Graves lived for ninety years. In that war, he was severely wounded and taken for dead. Like many of his generation, he served in the British Army (Royal Welch Fusilliers, to be exact) during World War I. A poet and novelist of some note, he was also a respected classical scholar and translator. ![]()
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