Died and Went Home
A.R.P. workers in London spend much of fheir time organising practice emergencies. In response to telephone calls from different points, ambulances and stretctier-bearers rush to collect prearranged “casualties.” In one emergency of this kind something went wrong. The ambulance was misdirected and took 20 minutes to reach the building which was supposed to have been bombed. The patience of the “casualty’ 7 had not survived the timelag. Awaiting the stretcher-bearers was a note:! “Bled to death. Gone home. Sorry. 1 *
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 280, 27 November 1939, Page 3
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