PLUCKY BOY SCOUT
After receiving 20 wounds in his arms, right leg, and body from pellets from a shotgun, a 13-year-old Boy Scou', William Fraser, of Bearsden, Glasgow, walked unaided for half a mile to a farm, and was then taken to hospital, where he is recovering rapidly. Fraser, who was accompanied by two other Boy Scouts, was on an afternoon cycling trip, and they were looking over a hedge on the main GlasgowMilngavie road when the accident occurred. It is stated that a man with a shotgun was shooting rabbi's in a field near-by.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 12
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95PLUCKY BOY SCOUT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20077, 25 October 1939, Page 12
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