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One-Arm Sutton [1933]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of California https://books.google.com/books?id=hV86AQAAIAAJ Chapter II-V cover the First World War years, where he initially joined the Royal Engineers as a Lieutenant. He lost an arm at Gallipoli due to an exploding hand grenade, then was assigned to the Inventions Department of the Ministry of Munitions. In 1917 he went to America where for a year and a half he superintended the manufacture of trench–mortars for the American Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Arthur_Sutton Francis Arthur Sutton (Wikipedia) “Following the war he built railways in Mexico and Argentina and also mined for gold in Siberia and Korea. Sutton travelled to China where he had purchased manufacturing rights for the Stokes Mortar that he provided to various warlords. He became a major general for the Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin… During World War II he was interned in Hong Kong ” where he died in 1944.

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