Yes, apparently the wound caused pain and "problems" for many years, he apparently stated that the enemy were "dirty little buggers", the spear points being tainted with unpleasant substances.
He survived to fall on very hard times, was reported missing from a poorhouse and was found by a constable at a tin mine, he had taken his own life by use of a cut throat razor, having used it as the name suggests.
A sad end for a "Tommy".
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