RED CROSS DRIVER'S RESOURCE
One of tho voluntary drivers of the British Red Cross unit in Italy (says ft writer in the "Cornhill Magazino") was bringing down, over an especially difficult piece of ground, an ambulanco full of wounded from a lofty sector of the Alpine front, when ho encountered a soldier in a desperate condition from a gaping bullet-wound in the throat. Realising that the man was in imminent danger of bleeding to death, the driver lifted tho inert body to his seat, propping it up tlio best ho could next to where he sat behind the steering-wheel. Driving with his .right hand, while with a finger of his left hand lie maintained a. firm pressure on the severed carotid artery, he steered his ambulanco down tho slippery, winding mountain road to the clearing station at tho foot of tho pass. The laconic comment of tho astonished but highly-pleased Italian doctor on the incident was direct but comprehensive "Well, young nan," lie said, as lie took hasty measures further to stauncli the Rushes, of blood, "you've saved his life, but in five minutes more you would have throttled him."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3141, 20 July 1917, Page 9
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190RED CROSS DRIVER'S RESOURCE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3141, 20 July 1917, Page 9
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