{"id":2578,"date":"2016-01-09T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:08:09","slug":"bullet-in-fire-youth-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/bullet-in-fire-youth-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLET IN FIRE &#8211; YOUTH INJURED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader<\/em> 29 January 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Extraordinary Accident near Curragh Camp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BULLET IN FIRE &#8211; YOUTH INJURED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An extraordinary accident is reported to have occurred at Athgarvan which is on the border line of the Curragh Camp. It appears that a young lad named Thos. Wilmot was sitting by a fire in the local clubroom speaking to a number of friends when suddenly there was heard an explosion from the fire and the young lad was struck in the thigh by what at first appeared to be a stone. Dr. L. F. Rowan, Kildare, was quickly on the scene and finding him seriously injured had him removed to the Drogheda Memorial Hospital where on examination he found that a bullet had lodged in the upper portion of the boy\u2019s thigh. How the bullet got into the fire is a mystery, but it is thought that it got swept in by accidentally falling from someone who was delivering coal. Head-Constable O\u2019Dea with Sergeant Thompson and the local police have made diligent inquires into the matter which is regarded as purely accidental. The injured boy is progressing favourably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader 29 January 1916 Extraordinary Accident near Curragh Camp BULLET IN FIRE &#8211; YOUTH INJURED An extraordinary accident is reported to have occurred at Athgarvan which is on the border line of the Curragh Camp. It appears that a young lad named Thos. Wilmot was sitting by a fire in the local clubroom speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}