Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Forever grateful for their sacrifice.

I also.

I've been to a few places which remind me.

I'd like to pay my respect at Auschwitz but it depends on a few things including how harrowing it would be.

Great updates Red

 

[alanc]

I'd like to pay my respect at Auschwitz but it depends on a few things including how harrowing it would be.

I've been to Auschwitz/Birkenau several times and it is harrowing, especially Birkenau, which highlights the scale of the horror.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1408014/Carl-Warner.html?msockid=07dae07c82fa67be17aef58983416697

have found online but its behind a paywall , no idea how to get around that so will be next week till i post it up

disabling javascript sometimes works (and does in this case)


Carl Warner, who has died aged 92, was awarded an MC during the battles of Alamein when serving, as a doctor and a conscientious objector, in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

In 1933, on holiday in the Black Forest with his fiancee, Warner, a Quaker, had witnessed an unpleasant scene involving a group of Hitler Youth.

Back home at Liverpool, he then also got to know several Jewish families who had fled the Nazi regime. So when war came in 1939, Warner joined the RAMC without a second thought.

From October 1942 to February 1943, he commanded the forward dressing station of the 15th Light Field Ambulance in North Africa.

All casualties coming from brigade units and many others passed through his hands. On one day alone he dealt with 123 casualties.

Warner's complete disdain for bombing and shelling, his citation recorded, was a magnificent example to others, while his skill in giving transfusions and tending wounds saved many lives.

In April 1943, in Tunisia, he was wounded in the leg, and carried some of the shrapnel with him all his life.

Charles Whitlow Warner - always known as Carl - was born at Liverpool on April 10 1910, into a devout Quaker family.

He was educated at Parkfield School, Liverpool, then at Sidcot, a Quaker school in Somerset, where he was captain of cricket and football, and head boy. After reading Medicine at Liverpool University, he worked as house surgeon at various local hospitals.

In 1936 he became a partner in a general practice at Woolton, then a village on the outskirts of Liverpool. There, except for the period of his war service, he remained for nearly 50 years, until his retirement in 1984.

The work of the practice was mostly private, but during the worst years of the Depression Warner and his partners were sent seriously sick and malnourished patients by the Public Assistance Commission.

They worked long hours, six or seven days a week. Saturdays were busiest, because patients could attend the surgery without missing work. Cases of diphtheria were legion, frequently fatal; there were annual outbreaks of measles and scarlet fever, and many cases of pneumonia.

When Warner returned after the war, penicillin, other antibiotics and the foundation of the National Health Service were transforming the picture.

Warner also noted the changing attitudes of patients: "A culture of 'rights' was growing . . . and the NHS provided fertile soil for this culture."

Carl Warner, who died on September 1, married, in 1936, Jennie Wass; she died in 1999. Their son survives him.

Wonderful.

Thanks both.

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Forever grateful for their sacrifice.

I also.

I've been to a few places which remind me.

I'd like to pay my respect at Auschwitz but it depends on a few things including how harrowing it would be.

Great updates Red

 

Auschwitz IS harrowing Shaz, and it should be, and you should go.

Stay in Krakow, which is a wonderful, friendly, vibrant city to offset the trauma a little.

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So as we made our way slowly South on the back roads of France we were somewhere north of Paris and ready to stop for the night when we stumbled upon this place.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Fontainebleau


Apparently no one minds if you park your camper on the Palace drive (Trademan's entrance of course) so we did, along with several others.

In the morning we found the gates were open and we were free to look around. Such opulence.

Pics to follow.

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[Karabiner]

Great pics Tom.

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Thanks Ralph.
I know that other people's holiday snaps are gauche, but it's my diary and I don't care. 

[Pokerpops]

That’s a cracking park up Tom. Did you find it on Park4Night?

I mostly use searchforsites but have used that one, it led me to a lovely spot near Coventry when I was at the recent APAT event. By the canal at Hawkesbury Junction it was very peaceful.

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Yes David Park 4 Night is my go to app.

[Geo the Sarge]

Super spot Tom.

You're not too far from Versaille, the Palace there is something else and well worth the visit.

We visited a few years back after the Mrs got hooked on the TV series.

Geo

[Geo the Sarge]

BTW, I forgot to mention I became a great grandad at the end of last year.

Geo

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BTW, I forgot to mention I became a great grandad at the end of last year.

Geo

Congratulations Geo. I'm a GG too.

My goodness we're old.

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BTW, I forgot to mention I became a great grandad at the end of last year.

Geo

Congratulations Geo. I'm a GG too.

My goodness we're old.

Me too.
I often get mistaken for an old man due to my age.