EXAMPLES OF BRITISH COURAGE
BOY LOST LEG-NO HERO’
“I’m no hero, Mister. All the boys round here put out bombs.” Saying this, a bright-eyed schoolboy laughed as he leaned on a pair of crutches and waved the stump of his right leg that he lost through putting out an incendiary bomb to save a building in his street.
He is Christopher Wheelright, 14, of College Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham. After extinguishing a bomb he had his right leg amputated.
A large piece of shrapnel was removed from his right arm, and he is now back in school taking his place with the “gang” of schoolboys who are regularly putting out bombs during raids.
“I have to tell my pals to pull the other leg now. If they read about me in the paper I shall never hear the last of it.” Chris, with two pals, saw an incendiary bomb drop near a billiards hall. “As I threw sand over it it exploded and my leg went limp,” he said. “They took me to hospital. Off came the leg. As soon as I get a cork leg I hope to start work.”
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 85, 15 August 1941, Page 2
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191EXAMPLES OF BRITISH COURAGE Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 85, 15 August 1941, Page 2
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