Some War Wounds Stay With You To The End

The bag contained a whopping 6oz of bomb shrapnel, roughly two handfuls, that Mr Brown had been carrying around for 60 years Photo: SWNS.com

Weighty Memento: War Veteran's Secret Revealed After His Death -- The Telegraph

The family of a war hero only discovered the full weight of his bravery after his death when his cremation left behind a huge pile of shrapnel.

Ronald Brown stepped on a land mine while on a mission in France in August 1944.

The blast peppered his left leg with red-hot fragments and he was forced to crawl two miles to safety.

But because of medical conditions of the day it was thought safer to leave shrapnel in his body.

He survived the war but only ever told his family the basic story and said the accident had left him with a 'bad knee'.

Mr Brown told loved ones he still had a 'bullet' in his leg and asked his grandchildren not to sit on his knee because of the pain it caused.

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My Comment: I had the same experience with my father and his war wound (he had some steel fragments on the side of his chest and one in front). It was shown to me by a doctor on an x-ray .... all my father would say was that he got it in the war.