Back at the Wheel (First World War Centennial)

Back at the wheel. Although this French ambulance driver had an arm shot off by a piece of shell as he was returning from the front, the wonderful ingenuity of modern surgery has made it possible for him to take his seat at the wheel again. From Illustrated World, November 1916, page 402.

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