WillPower
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This is a remarkable story about a simple English penny from 1889 saving a Brit soldier's life during WW1. You hear about these things....I did when I was serving overseas....most are tall tales, some are never told. I had two rifles shot out my hands, a canteen shot off my hip, a Willy Pete shot off my rucksack strap (it didn't ignite), and was in a hut when a mortar round hit it, throwing a wood table in front of me that caught the shrapnel I'd have caught. Most Vets have similar stories and why most of us hate somebody saying "good luck" to us. Our luck is pretty much spent and it's a jinx IMO. So anyway here's a true story about a lucky penny in a fella's pocket:
A 19th-century penny that miraculously saved the life of a British World War I soldier is set to go up for auction next week....(which is why I posted this in Current Events)
The penny belonged to Private John Trickett, who kept it in the top breast pocket of his uniform as a "poignant reminder of home" during the war, SWNS reports. While on a French battlefield fighting German forces in 1914, a German soldier shot at Trickett. The bullet hit the penny, nestled firmly in Trickett's breast pocket, ricocheted through his nose and went out back of his ear, Maureen Coulson, Trickett’s granddaughter, said. Militaria expert Adrian Stevenson, who found the coin, said: “It looks to me like a pistol bullet hit the penny at close range. I’ve come across many stories of random objects saving soldiers’ lives but I’ve never seen anything like this before."
The 63-year-old Coulson noted that her grandfather was a "great big guy" and would go on to marry Coulson's grandmother, Clementine. He worked as a postmaster and a switchboard operator and would become the father to 8 children, prior to his death in 1962.
Miracle penny that saved WWI soldier's life to go up for auction: 'Never seen anything like this before'
A 19th-century penny that miraculously saved the life of a British World War I soldier is set to go up for auction next week....(which is why I posted this in Current Events)
The penny belonged to Private John Trickett, who kept it in the top breast pocket of his uniform as a "poignant reminder of home" during the war, SWNS reports. While on a French battlefield fighting German forces in 1914, a German soldier shot at Trickett. The bullet hit the penny, nestled firmly in Trickett's breast pocket, ricocheted through his nose and went out back of his ear, Maureen Coulson, Trickett’s granddaughter, said. Militaria expert Adrian Stevenson, who found the coin, said: “It looks to me like a pistol bullet hit the penny at close range. I’ve come across many stories of random objects saving soldiers’ lives but I’ve never seen anything like this before."
The 63-year-old Coulson noted that her grandfather was a "great big guy" and would go on to marry Coulson's grandmother, Clementine. He worked as a postmaster and a switchboard operator and would become the father to 8 children, prior to his death in 1962.
Miracle penny that saved WWI soldier's life to go up for auction: 'Never seen anything like this before'
