RED CROSS DRIVER'S RESOUCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12063, 19 July 1917, Page 2

RED CROSS DRIVER'S RESOUCE.

One of the voluntary drivers of the British Red Cross unit in Italy a writer in the " Cornhill Magazine)' was bringing dnwr. over an especially difficult piece of ground, an ambulance full of wounded from a lofty sector °t the Alpine front., when lie encountered a, soldier in a desperate condition fioin a gaping bullet wound in tho throat. Realising that the man «"as in imminent danger of bleeding to death, the driver lifted the inert, body to his seat. k propping it up the best, he could ncxt| to where he sat behind the- steeringwheel. Driving with his r'ght- hand, while with a finger of his left hand he maintained a firm pressure on the severed carotid artery, lie steered his ambulancp_down the slippery, binding mountain road to the clearing station at the foot of the pass. The laconie comment of the astonished but highly pleased Italian doctor on the incident was direct but comprehensive Well, young man," he said, as ho took hasty measures further to staunch the gushes of blood, " you ve saved his lifo, but in five minutes more you would have throttled him."