The Long March (October 1934 – October 1935) was an historic retreat, in which Communist army forces fled their bases in Jiangxi province in south China. Fleeing to the North under the man who would become Chairman Mao, this woman soldier nearing 90 years of age, marched the nearly 6000 miles from South China to Northern China.
Other veteran soldiers of the commonwealth
And a seeming anachronism, but his tri-corner is formal military attire of his own age gone by.