Sad to read this

Richard · #1 (**permalink**) April 27th, 2007, 10:20 PM

What a tragedy.

Quote:

WWII claims British casualty 60 years on

A retired miner is believed to have become the oldest soldier to have died from a Second World War injury.
For nearly 64 years Leslie Croft, 86, lived a healthy life after surviving the shrapnel wound that cut short his service during the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943.
But the shell fragment caused a twisting of the small bowel. Scar tissue on the operation that followed led to the loss of vital blood supplies and eventually to the broncho-pneumonia that killed him, a coroner decided.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1717259.ece

Hawkerace · #2 (**permalink**) April 28th, 2007, 03:28 AM

aww.. thats a shame..
I feel bad. <

More reasons why war is somewhat wrong.

Martin Bull · #3 (**permalink**) April 28th, 2007, 07:02 AM

That is indeed sad. My Dad always says that when he was in the Army, one of the phrases he most often heard was 'If it's got your number on it....'

Skipper · #4 (**permalink**) April 28th, 2007, 08:35 AM

Sad news indeed. May be we should add smokers to that toll, as most of these young men started smoking when they joined the army and some still die because of that vice they caught during WWII