Ten Years Ago Today, item 28

• December 14, 2016 23:02:14 Sue Bryant

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  A long spell in the hospital perhaps even a trip

  - dear old Blighty was something to be thankful

  for. It doesn’t sound very heroic does it. According

  to all ideas & theories one should have been sorry

  to get away from beating the Germans. But after

  four years of war it meant a lot to us to be

  able to sleep in a decent bed, have decent meals

  and once more become civilised even if the price of these

  comforts was a wound. So perhaps you will

  realize why I wsa “wind up” getting back over

  that infernal bombing stop. If I stopped another

  Hun bullet it might mean goodbye to England

  home, Beauty and all I wanted just then was to

  get away from any more danger, and I knew if

  I could only successfully drop in the trench the other

  side I stood a mighty good chance of getting back.

  so with a mighty effort I hoisted myself up

  with the help of two of the infantrymen & half

  rolled, half crawled across that yard or two

  of exposed surface. Luck was with me and

  somewhat on the wire but that mattered not at

  all. For the time being I was under cover and

  except for running into an unlucky shell

  had every chance of making the Field Dressing

  Station & then away for somewhere behind

  the lines. My Welsh friend gave me two men

  to accompany me back because by the time I

  was feeling pretty bad. I discovered afterwards

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