Hi there. I have a couple of rumours and stories passed down by by grandfather and I'd like to know if they're true or false; I'm a civilian so for all I know they may be complete bull or just ordinary truths.
My grandfather was a field medic in WW2 and stayed on to fight in Kenya and Korea. He told me that, as a medic at the rank of Lance Corporal, he (and other medics) actually outranked everyone in the field when it came to medical matters. For example he says once that the SNCO was wounded and only him, and the CO of the unit, were able to reach him to give help. The CO was a young Officer fresh out of Sandhurst and didn't really know what do whilst my grandfather set about fixing the SNCOs wound; he sat there shocked at the blood, babbling, so my grandfather held up a pair of forceps and said, 'Shut up and hold this-now,'- no 'Sir', no 'Please', because a man's life was in his hands.
Secondly he tells me many medics carried sidearms in order to put the seriously wounded...
2007-12-17
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