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A Fateful Encounter

by Ron Steer

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Ron Steer
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Sgt. Frederick (Fred) Barton
Location of story:听
Algiers
Background to story:听
Army
Article ID:听
A7431518
Contributed on:听
30 November 2005

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War web site by Ron Steer, of 大象传媒 South East Today, on behalf of Fred Barton, and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr. Barton fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

A Fateful Encounter

I was injured in Italy and was transported to Algiers by hospital ship. On arrival, we were unloaded from the ship on stretchers by Prisoners of War; coming out of the darker inside of the ship and being carried down the gangway into very bright sunshine made it very difficult to see. A red Cross Nurse was standing at the bottom of the gangway; as each stretcher went by her, she put a packet of cigarettes and a bar of chocolate on your chest.
That little thought really made one feel wanted.
A little bit further on there was a Naval C.P.O with a clipboard who was checking us off. When I got to him I was still not seeing very well and wasn鈥檛 taking much notice, till a voice said, 鈥漌hat the b****y hell have you been doing?鈥 It was my cousin
Until then, we didn鈥檛 know where we each were. I was taken to the 96th General Hospital where, needless to say, I was one of the very few to have a visitor.

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