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Wounded American Remembered After Somme Fighting
A first person account recounts brutal trench fighting with German troops, bayonet hand to hand, and rescue moments. The narrator details wounds from shrapnel and bullets, recovery at Contay and Rouen, aid from Major Gilday, and a hospital train attack by German planes.
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Abell Hole
Godeall
Hurdiers
miKk Ore
Williams
Kentucky
Coe
Terret
Anc
Pale
Prizoners
Gilday
Vorleres
Goig
Mighty
Knickerbocker
New York
Walter
Poderes
Fleet Hospital
Portores
Erin Rominders
Tan
Lewis
Macfarlane
Glaws
Belgium
France
Monten
Thia
Bergeant McClintock
Lorington
Pramee
Botgin
Somme
London
Dong
Contay
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Comualty Clearing
Humber
Germie
Rouen