Harrogate Herald - 9th may 1917

Chats with the Wounded

Private W H Clayton, of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, is in the Grove House Hospital with a gun shot wound in the left ankle. He was on the Eastern Front and they were delivering an attack when he was hit. This was the second time he had been wounded. On the previous occasion, also on the Eastern Front, the enemy were shelling their lines. Pte Clayton was in the reserve line when he was struck on the had with a piece of shrapnel. He went into the Australian Hospital in Alexandra, where he was for about a couple of months. he is now going on nicely.