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again and to be freed from the Army. I found I could not get home until it was completely healed, but Captain Stuart the head of the Military Hospital King George the Fifth who was very kind to me said he would transfer me to Birkenhead. However while waiting for this to go through I decided to undergo another op[e]ration, my 12th, to finish it off and shortly after Sir Charles Ball and Sir Thomas Miles came down and had a look at it and advised this procedure saying it would not interfere with the usefulness of the knee joint. Dad arrived the day after in Dublin and two days later I went under ether again exactly 25 weeks to the day after amputation. Dr Smylie who performed the operation was present at the first. I got over the effects in fine style and suffered very little pain indeed and 9 days after I was up in the Ward. A week later I was out again, on the 29th to tea with Bissell at Dr. Purcers and next day with him to