At 21:00 on that day, an hour before the 12th Battalion attacked Bréville, Otway was making a routine tour of his positions when a stray shell landed amongst his party. Lieutenant Christie was killed, Sergeant McGeever was wounded and Captain Greenway had been blown into a tree, but amazingly he was only concussed. Otway had been blown across the road by the blast and he was visibly unhurt, however for several weeks afterward he suffered headaches and pains to the left side of his neck and head, on one occasion he even lost his sight for three hours. On the 19th July, he was diagnosed as having severe concussion and so it was that Otway was evacuated from Normandy. Command of the 9th Battalion passed to Lieutenant-Colonel Napier Crookenden of the 6th Airlanding Brigade
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