AFTER 21 YEARS.
SHRAPNEL PROVES FATAL.
MAN WOUNDED IN FRANCE
LONDON, January 6
The verdict at an inquest the death of a war veteran on New Year’s Eve was that the man “died as a result of a shrapnel wound received in France in 1916.” . The victim was Harry Pierce, aged 42, a carpenter, of Battersea. Doctors gave evidence that a piece of shrapnel the size of a man’s little finger was found in Pierce’s lung. Death was due to blood poisoning.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 84, 19 January 1938, Page 6
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