The Delusions of Robert Harcus junior

The story of the second son of Robert Harcus. He was a Mounted Rifleman in the Ninth Contingent of the South Island Regiment who fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa. On his return in 1902, he was never the same and many years later began to experience great powers and grandiose delusions. He never knew the cause of his insanity and died a slow death in Seacliff Mental Asylum of paralytic dementia due to Syphilis infection.

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