Correspondence and photographs of Fred Tackaberry, Royal Irish Fusiliers, item 3

• May 22, 2017 22:22:17 Annick Rodriguez

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  from the aid post I was conveyed

  by stages down to the 29 C.C.S.

  and after 6 days there the train

  took me down to Rouen

  At the C.C.S the put a Thomases

  splint upon my lift leg which

  had sustained a compound

  fracture at the shin and

  and gunshot wounds at 

  the knee. In all Id

  got 4 wounds in that

  leg. My right leg they

  amputated just below

  the knee. After I had been

  at Rouen about a fortnight

  it was found my right

  leg was going wrong fast septic

  having set in at the knee

  so they took another piece 

  off which has left me with

  a stump of about 6 inches

  I had been hoping all the

  
  

  
  

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• May 22, 2017 22:19:58 Annick Rodriguez

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  from the aid post I was conveyed

  by stages down to the 29 C.C.S.

  and after 6 days there the train

  took me down to Rouen

  At the C.C.S the put a Thomases

  splint upon my lift leg which

  had sustained a compound

  fracture at the shin and

  and gunshot wounds at 

  the knee. In all Id

  got 4 wounds in that

  
  

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• May 22, 2017 22:19:31 Annick Rodriguez

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  from the aid post I was conveyed

  by stages down to the 29 C.C.S.

  and after 6 days there the train

  took me down to Rouen

  At the C.C.S the put a Thomases

  splint upon my lift leg which

  had sustained a compound

  fracture at the shin and

  
  

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