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Harrowing account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by pilot who was shot in the BUTTOCK is unearthed with dozens of unseen pictures

Lieutenant Edward Packe flew over the Western Front battlefield in a two-seater BE2c biplane at 7.30am on July 1, 1916. He was shot in the buttocks by a German fighter at 2,000ft.

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