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Pte. Russel Leamy Badly WoundedThe first authentic news of the wounds, received bv Pte. Russeli Leatnv, who was very severely handled by the explosion of a shrapnel shell, tin October 8th last, is contained in a let ter from a friend of his , which reached Creston the latter part of February. The correspondent writes: “So far as I can learn both from the doctors and nurses who are attending Pte. Leamy he has better than a fighting chance of pulling through, but it is going to be a long fight. Pte. Leamy told me the whole ins and outs of the'affair. In making the charge, or rather in moying forward in support, on the morning of October 8th he was one of the last of the section and a big shell burst behind him. ^ A piece struck him between his shoulder-blade on the right side* embedding itself in his right luag, and although they successfully operated and removed the “piece of sheb the lung was really so bcidly torn it was impossible to remove it. The left lung wss slightly injured as well. - ,ig'iiu* in tig, iiow- ■evert .has stcuteu. Lb‘:neai, and startedto again act about the? middle of January, but blood poison has already set in cansiug no less than three abscesses around the wound, the last one being lanced the day before Christmas. The blood poison has also caused a breaking out on the back which has also to be lanced, and at times runs very freely. He is receiving every attention possible, and they even have him in a. tent so that he gets all the fresh air possible, but he certainly suffers terrible pain.“He said that after beiug hit he got up and wanted to see how the rest of the section fared, hut collapsed again in a shell hole. Two German prisoners who happened along bound him up and carried him to a dressing station, from where, by degrees, he was carried buck but was at least 17 hours before he got to a casualty clearing station, and hadn’t had the dressings changed from the time the two Fritzes fixed him up, so that it is little wonder blood poisoning followed. Under all the circumstances ho has done mighty weli. One of the first questions he asked was as to prospects of his being fit to bt; back on deck to start the new year back on the tiring line.”The very latest word from the hospital is that he is more than holding his own, and friends hereabouts hope that bis recovery though slow will be permanent, and that he will be around in good time and in good shape to take a hand hi t he big drive on Berlin this year.
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Creston Review
Creston, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Mar 09, 1917
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