A Doctor at War by Matthew Hall

Author:Matthew Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2013-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

We were under orders to move soon to Tobruk, but things were very ‘fluid’ and I had no one to appeal to find out the real state of affairs. Martin and Jim (a fellow officer) persuaded me to risk about one third of my entire unit in an endeavour to get those boys out. Had it succeeded all would have been well, but had it failed I’d have been out of a job. Well, we decided that it must be done and off they went through enemy held territory and got up there; when the drill was for Martin to go in and try and get the wounded out under the Red Cross flag. That they got there a couple of hours after a column out of Tobruk had gone through is old history; but it showed the stuff he was made of. If he had pulled it off and had the luck to get there first it’d have been a DSO… This is not an unsolicited testimonial, Sir, but I think it is only fair that you should know he’s first class and the greater the responsibility the better he does; only [one] thing he can’t stand and that’s inactivity… He’s impulsive and impatient; I used to think I was impatient but I have nothing on him.

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