'It hit me silly when it hit'
'Got half my face off'
'14796 L/cpl Payne'
'You know me'
'. . . again the cemetry I thought it had done for me when it hit me' _____________________________ There's a pause as blood starts seeping through the bandages. 'It only the blood coming through my mouth' A nurse is summoned - the ha
with the Field Ambulance at a farm at Ypres
'I was running from the trench'
'it would have smashed my brains out'
'Now half my face knocked off'
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