Show carried souvenir of somme fourteen years the true stories of strange war wounds are legion but one of the roost curious concerns a roan john garden who Is employed as a gardener in Inver urle scotland mr garden bened in france with the fourth gordons and wounded by shrapnel daring the battle of the borome on august 18 near guillemont Gull lemont quite recently in the course of ills ork mr garden had occasion to roal e n heavy lift and felt n severe pain in the back of his hand beneath the bone of the middle finger the pain became worse and his hand swelled so alarmingly that he had to go to a hospital an op was performed and a rifle bullet an inch and a quarter long and a quarter of an inch in adlam was extracted it had been lodged all these 14 years in the hand beneath the bone until the sudden wrench had loosened it from its position |