Daily Archives: September 9th, 2012
Did it really happen? – by Lucy
Barbara Roberts ♦ 9th September 2012 ♦ 2 Comments
[an excerpt from I Am Just A Woman, a kindle book by Lucy, who has just started to follow our blog; published with her permission]: DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? Sometimes things happen to you that, even at the time, you wonder if they are actually real. Even now, 28 years after it happened, I still …
Any mug could have done it
Barbara Roberts ♦ 9th September 2012 ♦ 7 Comments
Albert Earnest Coates was a master surgeon, soldier, teacher and humanitarian. Refusing to leave his patients during the Second World War, Coates became a Prisoner of War of the Japanese. An ex POW, Private Bill Hood, said of Coates “… they, the POW camp doctors, were all good, but Colonel Coates stood out… he not …
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