COURAGE OF NURSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 193, 17 July 1941, Page 8

COURAGE OF NURSES.

! IN BOMBING" ATTACKS. j Gunner Eric D. Fuller, son of Mr | and Mrs E. Fuller, of Wellington and j formerly of Palmerston North, ro- . turned to New Zealand recently from j active service. Gunner Fuller was'] wounded in Greece, evacuated to Crete;, and almost immediately returned lo { Egypt, when ho entered hospital Jorjj the treatment of a serious hand! j wound. He spoke highly of the Aus-jj tralian and New Zealand nurses, who ( stayed at their posts attending to tito j { wounded during air raids in and Crete. Even during the evacua-k tion from Crete. Gunner Fuller stated, k tlio ship on which he was travelling ’ was bombed and the nurses great enthusiasm in the efforts of the, j anti-aircraft gunners in bringing down L the planes. , “To see 12 Dorniers coming to bomb J ' the ship and three Blenheim bombers * I fighting them off was a sight that j I could not easily lxi forgotten,” said ! Gunner Fuller. “The Huns dropped , their bombs in the sea and tho last j iwe saw'of them was when they were l fast disappearing over the horizon.” k : Gunner Fuller praised the number- 1 l less men who continually found cover * for the wounded during dive-bombing ’ attacks. On one occasion a soldier ; flung Gunner Fuller into a shallow j I slit trench and flung himself on top ~ ' of him to shelter him from the blasts. . “This is only one of the many self- 1 sacrificing acts that wore carried out,” “ lie concluded.