WANTS NOW TO LIVE
SOLDIER THINKS OF OTHERS P.A. ■ AUCKLAND, Jan. 9. A badly-wounded American soldier, P.F.C. Charles E. Oats, .was flown from New Zealand to New Caledonia to. be featured in a Christmas broadcast from Noumea to the United States. Private Oats had had 31 blood plasma transfusions in the last year, the number being a record for the 39th General Hospital in New Zealand, where he is a patient, and perhaps a record for one person anywhere. Private Oats was wounded at Guadalcanal on January 16, 1943, when a Japanese shell killed his friends. It was necessary to amputate an arm and a leg, and for some months he was in an unfavourable condition and did not want to live. However, he found that others were in the same plight and slowly changed his attitude. Today he has a reputation among his fellows of not thinking about himself, but of always trying to help somebody else. The broadcast in New Caledonia was from a ward in an Army hospital. It was held on Christmas Eve. After the broadcast he was flown back to New Zealand.
Mrs. A. Bulman, 302 Taranaki Street, fractured her left thigh in a fall from a gangway at the wharf today and was taken from her home to hospital by the Free Ambulance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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