Mr. C. Griffiths of Griffiths and Co., boot importers, Hastings, notifies uis that be is not the Griffiths sued for debt at the Magistrate’s Court. According to Sir Henry Lucy, a doctor in Bristol was officially engaged to examine the condition of a wounded man sent home from the front, and report upon the possibilities of his being again fit for military service. He replied that having had an arm amputated the man was permanently incapacitated. Back came the searching official inquiry: “How do you know Private has only one arm I” “Sir,” responded the irate medical man. “1 counted it.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 265, 25 October 1916, Page 6
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