AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Operation to Remove Piece of Shrapnel From Man’s Head LEGACY OF GREAT WAR FOUR YEARS A PRISONER (By TelegrajU —Press Association.) WHAKATANE, Sept. 19. A successful operation for the removal of a. piece of shrapnel shell, embedded in his skull for 20 years, was performed, on Les Forbes at Whakatane hospital. Mr Forbes, who was in the ImpArmy at the outbreak of the w. was wounded in August, 1914, tr prisoner in France, and remained in a German prison camp for four and a-half years. After lie was released, he married and came to New Zealand, and settled in this district. Ho was recently subject to violent headaches and an X-ray revealed a piece /djf shrapnel embedded in his skull some distance from the main wound'. ,
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 19 September 1934, Page 6
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