236677 2nd Lt. John Vincent Fitzsimmons British Army 11th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from:Carlisle Wounded in January 1918, John Fitzsimmons was taken by ambulance to a casualty clearing station in Ballieul. He had been laying wire and came to in the CCS. The medics reckoned he was a goner but he survived. John had piece of shrapnel in his side and a wound in his forearm.
When he joined up in 1915 as a private, his father had given him a silver hip flask and silver cigarette case. They were stolen from him by the medics.
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