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My Shot'

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AuthorFox, John Hubert
TitleMy Shot'
NotesMy father served in the Coldstream Guards and saw action at Loos, Ypres and the Somme. He survived all these (though wounded on the Somme). Finally at Cambrai he received a shot through the shoulder. This was the Blighty wound which every soldier hoped for. Not fatal or life threatening but serious enough to be sent back to England. Whilst recovering in hospital in Manchester he wrote this poem which indicates the joy and relief of getting this kind of wound.

Editor's Comment:
Opening lines of poem: 'In Cambrai battle I was shot | on the 30th of November last...'

Corporal 14269 John Hubert Fox, 2nd BN. Coldstream Guards. He enlisted on 21 Dec. 1914 at Sheffield, serving on the Western Front.
Item Date6th January 1918
Creation placeCambrai
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
ContentPoem
CataloguerRichard Marshall
FilenameGWA_1945_My_Shot.jpg
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameDennis Fox
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/3640