Collingwood Splinter Wound — Trafalgar 21 October 1805

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Two British columns. Not a wound plate and not a likeness.

Overview

The wound is already on Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography. At the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview he was wounded in the leg by a splinter.¹

The Wound

This note covers Collingwood’s Trafalgar wound only. Surgery, a gun that threw the splinter, and a later medical history stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type is the 32-pounder wound-type sentence, not this wound. Hardy Shoe-Buckle — Trafalgar 21 October 1805 is a buckle, not a Collingwood wound. Spoken lines stay on the Collingwood note. Do not clone the wooden-splinters page.²

Sources

• @hughes1957collingwood
• Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography

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• Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview
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• Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type

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• Hardy Shoe-Buckle — Trafalgar 21 October 1805
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Footnotes

1. Wounded in the leg by a splinter: Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography. ↩

2. Wound type stays on Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type. Do not invent surgery or which gun threw the splinter. Do not recopy a spoken line. ↩