AFTER 20 YEARS
Shrapnel Taken From Skull
SUCCESSFUL OPERATION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WHAKATANE, Sept. 19
An operation for the removal of a piece of shrapnel shell that had been embedded in his skull for 20 years, was successfully performed on Mr. Les Forbes at. the Whakatane Hospital. Mr. Forbes, who was in the Imperial Army at the outbreak of the war, was wounded lit August, 1914, and taken prisoner iu France. He re mained in a German prison camp for four and a-half years. After his release he married and came to New Zealand and settled in this district. He was recently subject to violent, headaches, and an X-ray examination revealed a piece of slirapued embedded in the skull nemo distance from the main wouna.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 237, 19 September 1934, Page 7
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