A military curiosity has arrived in New York’in John Costelloe, who as a private in the Gordon Highlanders survived twenty-nine bayonet and sabre wounds, and found his way to America as a steward on the liner New York from Liverpool. Among his chums in the Highlanders, Costelloe asserted, he was known as the “human pin cushion.’’ Every bayonet charge added five or six wounds to his ‘’collection,’’; until finally ho became so battered that his officers decided to give him’a,period of furlough.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9173, 13 October 1915, Page 11
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