WALKED 600 MILES
MAN WITH BROKEN SKULL LONDON, May 27. Petty-officer Percy Ward, of Durham, walked 600 miles with a fractured skuli did not know it. His journey took four months through enemy-held Italy after his ship had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
Ward was on a prison train travelling through North Italy. He suddenly leaped up and said to his fellow prisoners: “ This is where I get out, chaps, ’ and jumped from the swiftly-moving train.
He fell heavily and was knocked out for a few moments, but after he had bathed a head wound and tied it up with a handkerchief he started his long walk to the British lines.
His fractured skull was diagnosed ip hospital. Now he is in Britain onTeave.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25560, 13 June 1944, Page 6
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