A “SOUVENIR.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 117, 17 April 1934, Page 4

A “SOUVENIR.”

FRAGMENT OF SHELL. OPERATION AT GISBORNE. GISBORNE, April 16. The story of the Auckland returned soldier who has just had a fragment nf shell removed from his thigh, where it had reposed since 1916. lias brought lo light the storv of a Gisborne man who has been less fortunate. Air Percy Fulton, the local unemployment officer, who is at present recovering from an operation which was undertaken for the removal of a steel fragment which was located near the right eye, is the man. The operation was unsuccessful, and Mr Fulton is now resigned to another long wait in the hope that the metal chip will move nearer the surface and thus become accessible to the surgeon’s knift. Air Fulton collected his “souvenir on Gallipoli in August. 1915, as the result of a bomb explosion, a fragment entering the eye socket and embedding itself in the tissues behind the eye. It is only occasionally when the steel comes in' contact with the nerve that Air Fulton suffers greatly from the injurv. A recent X-ray examination disclosed the fragment located at a point near the eyeball and apparently accessible, but the operation did not'result successfully. Air Fulton still hopes, however, that in time he will he able to dispose of this relic of the 19-year-old wound.