AN OFFICER'S ENDURANCE.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 31 May 1917, Page 3

AN OFFICER'S ENDURANCE.

An officer who visited the Foreign Office on Wednesday (says the 'Scotsman' of March 10), and who, save for a maimed hand, presented a normal and healthy appearance, supplied a remarkable example of endurance and courage. Going over a parapet, the officer was shot through the lungs, but was not put out of action until other shots smashed one arm and wounded him in one leg. For 19 hours he lay in the open,- and while crawling in search of water to quench his intense thirst he was-struck by a shell splinter, which carried away part of his right' hand. He sustained other shell wounds to his back and side. Despite his injuries he managed to abtain a drink from the bottle of a dead Frenchman, and then suffered yet further maiming from a portion of a shell which took off a foot and part of a leg and inflicted another less serious wound. Having been fitted with an artificial leg and foot, he shows little sign of his terrible experience.