MYSTERY WAR WOUND
BULLET IN SOLDIER’S BODY. During heavy shelling at Oppy Wood, in the summer of 1917, a Dumfries man, Mr Michael Wells, then serving with the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and now a railway worker, residing at Collin, received an injury which he regarded as a scratch. After it had been dressed he thought no more about it. About two months ago what was thought to be a boil developed on his back, and then something like a pencil-point appeared through the skin. A doctor was consulted, and Mr. Wells was astonished when the medical man extracted a German bullet from his back.
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Southland Times, Issue 20642, 14 November 1928, Page 8
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