What injury did Georges Braque suffer during World War I?

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Georges Braque Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956

During World War I, the French artist Georges Braque served as an infantry sergeant and was decorated twice for bravery in 1914. In 1915, he suffered a serious head wound, which necessitated a trepanation, several months of hospitalization, and a long period of convalescence.1