Show carried souvenir of somme fourteen years yeara the true stories of sim strange inge war wounds are legion but one of the roost most curious concerns a kingore kintore man john garden who Is employed ns a gardener in Inver invernale arle scotland mr air garden served in ili france with the fourth gordons and was wounded by shrapnel riming dering the battle of the somme on august 18 1910 1010 tear near guillemont Gull lemont quite recently in the course of his M mark mr air garden had I 1 occasion to maw in n heavy lift and felt celt ns al evere severe pat the back of ills his land beneath the fone ne of the middle finger the pain became worse and lits hi shand liand swelled so alarmingly that he hod had to go to a hospital an op oration was performed and a bullet nn an inch and a quarter long and a quarter of an inch in diameter was extracted it hod had been lodged nil all these 14 years in the hand beneath the bone until the sudden wrench had loosened it from itsjo siaion |