FRANCESTOWN, N.H. (AP) – A Francestown soldier serving in Iraq was seriously wounded over the weekend in a roadside bombing.

First Lt. Scott Quilty, 26, had to have his right leg amputated below the knee and his right arm amputated below the elbow, his father told The Sentinel.

The father, R. Scott Quilty, said he, his wife and their daughter were able to speak with Scott on Tuesday, after he underwent surgery and doctors induced a coma. He is scheduled to fly to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington later this week.

“He was a little disoriented,” the elder Quilty said. “When I talked to him, he didn’t know what had happened to him.”

The younger Quilty led a platoon leader of 30 soldiers in the 10th Mountain Division, a combat infantry unit based out of Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y. He had been in Iraq for six weeks, his father said.

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