Surgeon-Major Alexander Francis Preston, an Irishman who served in Afghanistan and was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, may have been the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John Watson.
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Click the link for Preston's story, and speculation as to whether Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories, used him as a model for Dr. Watson.
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