TWELVE WOUNDS IN THE BRAIN
The following is a remarkable instance of vitality in a British soldier:— Private Albert Sepple, of Guildford, who enlisted in the 2nd Leicesters, and was a -member of the Indian Expeditionary Force, was wounded at Ypres on June 6 and has just died in a Norwich hospital. Ho had twelvo fragments of shrapnel embedded in his brain, and lived for nearly twenty weeks, novel- losing consciousness except wiicn under anaesthetics. The surgeons removed the twelvo pieces of shrapnel, varying in size from a pin'a head to a largo pea, from the brain. Besides the injuries to his head, his right side was paralysed, there was a largo wound in the left siionidei', and his left knee was shattered. Yet his courage nover wavered. Eight surgeons were round bis bod, and could hardly believe in his consciousness. As a special test they asked Sepple if he could whistle. Ho could, and did whistle several times. Gradually, however, his strength left him,; but he remained conscious to the end.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 7
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172TWELVE WOUNDS IN THE BRAIN Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 7
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