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Description
Mr. Atkinson translates his hospital experiences into the theory that married men who had left young families behind were the least likely to survive disease.
Transcription
It’s a theory I have knowing the figures. We had, let’s we’ll put our people into three classifications. We had young single men, some of them from as young as 16, even up to 30 that were single. We had a group of married men from the age of, even some down as low as 20, not that many with kids but from 25 to 40 that had young families back home and then we had the older group, some of them, a couple of them even up into their 60’s in the Grenadiers that had, were married but their families were all grown up. Now out of that group, my thinking is the largest group of deaths stemmed in that married group from 21 to 40 who had young families at home. Those things were, they were thinking about it the same time they were sick, am I going to get home and see Mum. All I had at home was my mother and step father and sisters and I didn’t have the same worry my brother had, he was married and had a family. He died in camp.