TIMELY VISIT PAID TO SON
A mother has arrived back in England, convinced that she saved her son's life. It is not just her fancy. The doctors and nurses in the B.E.F. base hospital in France where she saw her son are convinced, too. The son. Private Walter Beasley, aged 21, seemed to have lost all spirit. Meningitis, which followed influenza, had left him weak. Asked the nurse at his bedside, “Do you think your mother would come out to see you?” "I don’t think so,” he replied. “Not after all the trouble at home. Father died a month ago.” Later the nurse spoke again: “Your mother is outside.” Then the nurse opened the door and Mrs Florence Beasley, of Bowling Green Avenue, Cirencester, came in and kissed her son. Now her son is out of danger. Mrs Beasley said after her visit to him: “He recognized me at once, but couldn’t believe it. I am sure my visit saved his life.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24106, 20 April 1940, Page 12
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162TIMELY VISIT PAID TO SON Southland Times, Issue 24106, 20 April 1940, Page 12
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