DESERT ADVENTURE
Many a man has owed liis life to a cleverly placed bandage, but few so strangejy as a sergeant who has just arrived back in England from Africa. He and his mate were sent off with a lorry of medical supplies for en advance party a long way ahead of the main army. After travelling for some time without meeting anyone, they realised that they were lost in the desert. They waited anxiously for many hours, but nights followed days, and no moving thing appeared except the aeroplanes which were flying too high to no,:ce one little lorry. At last after [heir water had given out and their hope very nearly so, the sergeant had a great id»a. W oak and fa'n' though he wjvj, he unwrapped a'l (he bandages in the lorry and made with them ?i huge SO>S on the ji"'"nu"d. Hi r> j eollapsed with exhaustion and smi- j stroke, bul an a'wnplnne saw the ( mesrngo almost at once, and help ; fame just in t;nr\
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 153, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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170DESERT ADVENTURE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 153, 10 September 1941, Page 6
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