A Bluejacket who was brought into the Naval Hospital at Rosyth had had
one of his legs blown off while he was asleep in his hammock. The late
Mr. Thomas Horrocks Oppenshaw, the senior surgeon-in-charge, asked him
what his first thought was when the explosion woke him up.
"My first thought was 'Torpedoed, by gum!'"
"And what did you think next?"
"I think what I thought next was 'Ruddy good shot!'"--_H.R.A., M.D.,
llford Manor, near Lewes, Sussex._