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Report a Mistake- Object Number 19810917-021
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1915-1919
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Documentary artifact
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1915/01/01
- Latest 1919/12/31
- Inscription History of Fragments of Shell, bombs, Bullets removed from animals During the GREAT WAR 1915 -1919. By Capt. A.E Cameron, M.C. C.A.V.C 1.Bomb 24th August 1918. L.D 28th Bn. Smaller extracted with 3 other pieces from neck; wound 2" deep. Larger from the near arm traveled right around so that the probe couldn't locate it. Incision made on the other side when the piece removed 31/8/18. 2. Horse's neck 4" deep, 31st Bn. 7th Nov./17 Same bomb killed two officers & two men as well as wounding four O.R. 3. Taken from the lower jawbone. Hourse of 20th batt. C.F.A. 15th august 1917. Very difficult to remove. 4. Horse's back, penetrated 7" removed by incision parallel to the backbone 3/9/17 after being embedded there since 10/8/17. 5. From a horse's shoulder 6" upwards and inwards. 5th Bde.C.F.A. 18th August 1917. 6. Wounds face & tongue; this morsel of H.E. passed in the side of nose smashed the eye tooth and was extracted from middle of the tongue, 8th august 1917. 14th C.M.C. 7. From cavity above the eye, horse 6 Fld Co. C.e hit while I was at Div. H.C. the piece had remained in the wound 6 months Extracted 4th July 1917. 8.Removed from an Arty horse's neck Apl 1917. near La targette. 9. Remained in the thigh of a horse 7 months. Extracted 4th April 1918. Bay g. 6th fld.Co.C.E. (my own case). 10. chestnut g., 31st Bn. Near jaw one & a half inches deep, bad bleeding. 7/9/18. 11. Lead shrapnel from foreleg of a horses nos after about 3 months. 28th bn. June 1917. (not reported to me). 13. Portion of a bomb, passed through my hut at Reninghelst. Same bomb wounded Miller, Reid, Goethals, & 2 others. 3/8/19. 14. shrapnel lead bullet extracted 6 Nov 1 1917. From the ribs of Rdg horse, 56 MCCO. 15. From the tail of a L.D.5th C.M.G.Co. 6th Nov 1917. (Battle of Passchendael). 16. From bomb wound in the back. 28th Bn. 19th July 1918. 17. this piece was 3" in tail and rump of General Bell's charger Guillaucour 8th aug. 1918. (groom got 2 other pieces) 18. Machine Gun bullet in the jaw; L.D..28 Bn 1st Oct 1918. 19. H.D. 27th bn. Hit by shell 16/8/18. Next day this aeroplane bullet hit the same animal. (Near Caix.) 20. this wire caused haemorrahge and death of 27th Bn horse near Reninghelst. It was located under the right kidney. 21. 2nd Cdn div. H.Q. Police horsedestroyed at Dickebush, (foot smashed by shell) This automatic pistol bullet entered forehead and was removed from front of shoulder just under the skin. 22. German rifle bullet from a wound. Detail lost. 23. H.D 28th Bn. Hit off side of neck 5th Oct. 1918; on return from leave probe wouldn't pass through the Lig. Nuchae. Swelling near side, pus found at about 2" and piece removed. Wound syringed & iodined-unretarded recovery. Ext. 16/10/18.
- Materials Paper
- Branch Canadian Army Veterinary Corps
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Related activity Veterinarian