OPERATING TABLE SMOKE
INDOMITABLE OFFICER WITH r TWO FRACTURED LEGS. “I went all through the war without a scratch, and now I am smashed up like this,” was the comment of Cap-, tain Henry Hobbs, of Cress -Farm,. Wivenhoe, when both his , legs were fractured through a collision between his motor-cycle and a. ear at a dangerous corner near Elmstead. Calmly ho smoked cigarettes during his journey to hospital and on the operating tabic, and was declared by the ambulance men to be-the most indomitable patient they had ever had.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 9
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90Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 9
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