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Pte. Thomas Walter Cox
British Army 2nd Btn. Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
from:Kensworth, Bedfordshire
My father, Thomas Cox who died in 1987 aged 73, was badly wounded during WW2.
The only detail I have is that his battalion was crossing from North Africa to Sicily when he was hit by a sniper's bullet, which passed through one side of his neck and out the other, narrowly missing his spine.
He was taken to the Leicester Royal Infirmary and I remember seeing a photo of him sitting up and smiling in hospital, with a plaster cast covering his body from his waist to his chin. Despite carrying the scars, physical and mental, from the war, he worked as an electroplater until well after retirement age.