HIS GOOD LUCK
At a meeting of tho Thetford, Norfolk Board of Guardians, a letter was read from one of the medical officers, Dr. W. E. Cooper, who is on service at No. 26 Briitsh General Hospital, France. In the course of the letter he refers to the remarkable fortitude shown by our wounded soldiers He says: "Patients are generally sent in batches of 50 to 150 to the different hospitals, and then for the next few days we are busy cutting off smashed arms and legs and hunting for fragments of shells and bullets. Our patients are generally awfully good and cheerful. "I was talking to a man last week in ono of the wards who told mo he was very lucky to be whore he was, as ho might have been seriously hurt. All that happened to him wasi
"1. Left leg off abovo tho knee. "2. Right leg shattered l with shell, but getting bettor.
Two and a half fingers off the left hand.
"4. Some fragments of shell in head and neck. His arm was also a good bit torn.
"Curious ideas some people have as tb vdhat constitutes luck! But they are all ITke that. A grumbler is almost unknown."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 7
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205HIS GOOD LUCK Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 7
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