X-ray image showing shrapnel and fractures in forearm, possibly of Lieutenant (Lt) Thomas Leonard ...

Accession Number P11948.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Jones, William Henry
Place made France
Date made 1916-1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

X-ray image showing shrapnel and fractures in forearm, possibly of Lieutenant (Lt) Thomas Leonard Huxtable, 9th Machine Gun Company. Lt Huxtable sustained severe shrapnel wounds to his left arm, which had to be amputated.