My Shot'
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Title
My Shot'
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Identifier
3646.jpg
GWA_1945_My_Shot.jpg
Creator
Fox, John Hubert
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Abstract
My 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.
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.
Date
6th January 1918
Date Created
1918-01-06
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Type
Poem
Contributor
Richard Marshall
Dennis Fox
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford