Chelsea Pensioners Denis Shiels, left, and John Walker, on their visit to the Lochaber Times office in Fort William this week.
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IT’S NOT their combined age of nearly 180 years that forces Denis Shiels and John Walker to take their time walking along Fort William’s High Street, but the endless requests to take their photograph.
The reason is obvious as the two men are resplendent in the scarlet uniform of the famous pensioners of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The intrepid duo are among the 300 army veterans who call the Royal Hospital home.