- Contributed by听
- CSV Media NI
- People in story:听
- Andrew Andrews
- Location of story:听
- Killyleagh, Northern Ireland
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A4291003
- Contributed on:听
- 28 June 2005
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I had three brothers in the army and my father was in the Somme. I had a brother who was in the air force, the eldest brother was a regimental sergeant major. He was in the army for about 21 years. He had a watch in his best pocket and a bullet ricocheted of it at Dunkirk and saved his life.
Another brother in the army, he was a parachutist. He got shrapnel in his leg, took his toes off, took his foot off and the poison travelled up his leg and they had to remove the leg above the knee and they gave him a wooden leg. Eventually gangrene and the disease got up into his body and he died in England. But the rest of us, thank-God, survived.
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