Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1915-1915
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...cases were allotted to us--an average of over 3 cases a day. In all 441 cases were at one time or another under our observation and care. Of the 383 cases on which we have full records 318 received actual wounds by missiles--as follows: Rifle ball, 128 Shrapnel ball, 31 Shell fragment, 133 Shell fragment and rifle ball, 5 Shell fragment and shrapnel, 1 Doubtful, 5 Bomb fragments, 9 Hand-grenade, 3 Barbed wire, 1 Mine explosion, 1 Revolver ball, 1 Total...
John F. Bass '91, staff correspondent of the Chicago Daily News with the Russian army at Warsaw, was wounded in the face, early this month, by an explosion of German shrapnel, while returning from the trenches. Information has been cabled that his injuries are not serious...