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Stoker Richard Henry, R.A.N., Melbourne. has been discharged from a military hospital in Western Australia after a year’s treatment, during which he received 36 pints of blood —three pints by direct transfusion and the rest from the hospital’s blood bank. The previous record for a patient was 3?, nints. From an emaciated wreck whose life was despaired of, he became a healthy, sun-tanned man with only a slight limp. Henry was on his way to join his own corvette in a tanker when it was shelled and torpedoed by two Japanese raiders. While in the tanker’s lifeboat Henry’s leg was ripped open by machine-gun bullets fired by the second raider after the first had been sunk. The tanker, which had seemed doomed, kept afloat, and Henry was hoisted on board on a stretcher improvised from tivo oars and a blanket. In spite of fire on board, the tanker managed to reach port and Henry was transferred to hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25429, 10 January 1944, Page 4
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