Bullet in Heart for Ten Years, item 3

• October 25, 2018 15:18:25 Sara Fresi

  Recent report in this newspaper stated that U.S.

  my surgeons had removed a Vietcong bullet from the

  art of a 20-years-old American soldier in what they

  led an operation unprecedented in the Vietnam War.

  The heart surgeon said: "We did not know until we

  ened his chest that the bullet had actually pierced the

  art. It's just incredible that he lived to get to hospital."

  The item prompted a colleague to refer me to Bren-

  O'Reilly, a linotype operator with this newspaper.

  endan then told me the story of his late father, Mr.

  chael O'Reilly, formerly of the Connaught Rangers,

  had a German bullet in his heart for ten years.

  photo

  his is the bullet which was lodged in Mr. O'Reilly's heart

                                          muscle

  He showed me an old news-

  per cutting which told how

  father was admitted to

  een Mary's Hospital at

  ehampton and subsequently

  t, completely recovered.

  
  

  "The history of 'Paddy'

  Reilly, as he is known at

  ehampton, is an ex-

  ordinary one" went the 

  wspaper story of the time.

  
  

  "He was shot at

  apelle in the spring of 1915

  World Was One), the bullet 

  ercing both lungs and lodging

  the heart. He lay un-

  uscious for a week, but the 

  let could not be located and

  he was eventually sent back to

  the firing lines.

  He was in the battle of the

  Somme in 1916 and was buried

  in a shell-hole and afterwards

  seriously wounded by shrapnel

  in the thigh.

  His wounds necessitated two

  operations and he was X-rayed,

  but still no one discovered that

  there was a bullet in the

  muscle of the heart.

  "Paddy" was trasferred to

  the Labour Corps, and soon

  after the Armistice, was sent to

  his home in Longford on pension.

  Dr. Mary J. Farrell of

  Longford sent him to the Rich-

  mond Hospital, Dublin, where

  
  

• October 25, 2018 15:12:30 Sara Fresi

  Recent report in this newspaper stated that U.S.

  my surgeons had removed a Vietcong bullet from the

  art of a 20-years-old American soldier in what they

  led an operation unprecedented in the Vietnam War.

  The heart surgeon said: "We did not know until we

  ened his chest that the bullet had actually pierced the

  art. It's just incredible that he lived to get to hospital."

  The item prompted a colleague to refer me to Bren-

  O'Reilly, a linotype operator with this newspaper.

  endan then told me the story of his late father, Mr.

  chael O'Reilly, formerly of the Connaught Rangers,

  had a German bullet in his heart for ten years.

  photo

  his is the bullet which was lodged in Mr. O'Reilly's heart

                                          muscle

  He showed 

  
  

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• October 25, 2018 15:11:26 Sara Fresi

  Recent report in this newspaper stated that U.S.

  my surgeons had removed a Vietcong bullet from the

  art of a 20-years-old American soldier in what they

  led an operation unprecedented in the Vietnam War.

  The heart surgeon said: "We did not know until we

  ened his chest that the bullet had actually pierced the

  art. It's just incredible that he lived to get to hospital."

  The item prompted a colleague to refer me to Bren-

  O'Reilly, a linotype operator with this newspaper.

  endan then told me the story of his late father, Mr.

  chael O'Reilly, formerly of the Connaught Rangers,

  had a German bullet in his heart for ten years.

  
  

  
  

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