Saving a man’s life

And he told me, he said, "I have, my brother is off a few miles away, I want to go and see him." So he left me there by myself. So I'm standing, the windows of course are all blown out of the, the station, and I was standing by the window, and these crazy engineers had a bonfire out on the railway tracks, and they were burning a bunch of rubbish. And unknown to them, there was ammunition in there, and suddenly they, they started going off, and there was, right where I was standing, looking towards it, there was a soldier walking right by me and he only got about 2 feet, and all of a sudden he fell. He'd got hit, got hit right in the groin, right there, right with that artery, and I jumped out of the window and got a pressure bandage on it, and stopped the bleeding, and then they, they rushed over, and they brought a, a jeep ambulance over, and they kept the pressure on this, on him, got him on a stretcher, and took him back to the nearest medical unit. And all the time these shells are, are flying all over the place, and I get back into the station and I think, "John, you were a crazy fool to jump out that window," because I could have got just as easily hit as he had, as he did.

Interviewer: You saved his life.

I saved his life and they told me that, later that he didn't lose his leg or anything. He had, he was grateful, yeah.