Shells whistling over the Jessfield Sector, where fierce fighting was again in progress yesterday added to the toll of casualties already suffered by the Royal Ulster Rifles, three more Riflemen being injured, one seriously, in the morning. They were Lance-Corporal Thomas Dewey, aged 21, of Lurgan, Ireland, who received a compound fracture of the left tibia and fibula, and is now in a serious condition: Rifleman Hugh Leckey, aged 24, of Belfast, who received a lacerated wound on the right knee: and Rifleman Sanderson, of Clan Parish, Ireland, who received lacerated wounds on the right thigh. All three men were taken to the British Military Hospital. Riflemen Leckey and Sanderson were expected to recover, their wounds not being considered serious.
Meanwhile, it was reported yesterday that Rifleman Robert Delaney, who was seriously injured on Friday evening when on duty in the Jessfield Sector, died yesterday at 10.50 am.
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