Two Doctors, Chaplain Chose To Stay With Wounded

Northern Advocate, 21 June 1941, Page 7

Two Doctors, Chaplain Chose To Stay With Wounded

TSpecial to “Northern Advocate”! , AUCKLAND, This Day

According to information contained in letters which have been received by the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board (Mr Allan J. Moody), whose son (Captain R. F. Moody) was a doctor with the New Zealand Forces in Crete, two Auckland doctors and a well-known city Baptist minister ehQse to remain with the seriously J : wounded men rather than seek escape.

The second doctor was Captain Selwyn de Clive-Lowe. A letter referring to his son which Mr Moody . received yesterday from Colonel Kenneth MacCoi’mick, D. 3.0., also of Auckland, stated: “I have not been able to get the full facts from those who have returned except that in company with Selwyn de CltveLowe, he found himself with a number of seriously wounded practically cut off and decided that it was his duty to stay with the wounded. Red Cross Respected

“The consensus of opinion among those who have returned -is that unless medical units got in the way of active operations the Germans have respected the Red Cross and medical personnel had nothing to fear.’’ A similar opinion is expressed in a letter received by Mrs Hiddlestone, whose husband, the Rev. J. S. Hiddlestone, was a chaplain. The letter stated. “!rhe men of his unit told me that the enemy were respecting the Red Cross at this point, and had refrained from bombing. “Mr Hiddlestone and the patients were in a cave under good shelter when they were left behind. The Germans v/ould be especially apt to be kind to Mr Hiddlestone because he had been very good to a number of wounded German prisoners collected in this hospital.”