disabled members.

[Owen]

this is why my typing is crappy as well

Didn't stop you typing in "on his lofty perch" three times in one post though did it me old Moonraker?
Cheers Lee, as the saying goes, "There but for the Grace of God go I."
I've been down to SN12 rather alot this week, keep wondering where you are so I can park up me 7.5 ton lorry and grab a cuppa.
What is down the pub, 6X ?

[4th wilts]

yes,there is 6x but i am a cider man mainly,yours.lee.

[sapper]

On holiday in Majorca in my wheelchair some years ago, we had some red wine with the lunch, Sheila rarely drinks, but this day she did. She wheeled my chair back in the most erratic manner ever. help by two Spanish police men to get my chair up a steep curb.
Sapper

[WotNoChad?]

You'll do me too Lee.

I wouldn't bother too much about quotes and references, for me if someones got them they've got them and if they haven't, they haven't - it means no more and no less.

[Gotthard Heinrici]

Lee, Congrats on the fact that you do not let your disabilty get in your way to communicate with the forum. I would however like to make one point: when you make statements like: hastings reminds me of ambrose,licking ikes ass,while slating monty,harris,etc.i never heard yank authors slating patton,ike and bradley.i still stand by my statement.bloody traitor imo.yours,lee.

or even:
earlier in this thread someone was on about a book called armageddon,slagging off our monty.was that not written by hastings.rather ironic that,sounds like tedder.how many copies do you think he wants to sell in the u.s.a. bloody traitor,yours very sincerely,lee.

Or perhaps this: market was an american debacle.failure to grab son bridge.gavin sendng 1 company on day 2 to capture the wilhelmena bridge at njimegen and needding british help to keep the advance routes open.im sorry,but this is my opinion.all garden units had to stop and help.

Now, if you are gonna make statements like that, then you had better back them up. I am a fair person, and I believe in treating everyone equally. My first reaction is not to go "oh Lee's opinon muct be cautioned by the fact that he has no access to records. I treat you as I do everyone else. I do this because you deserve to be treated equally, not favourably or less faourably but equally. Therefore I expect no more or no less than anyone else. If I am to treat you as equally as say Owen, Christos or Ron Goldstein (first 3 names that popped into my head) then I must say that if you are gonna make sweeping statements then, like everyone else, it is your responsiblity to make sure either: a) you can back it up or b) u know someone who can. I have given examples of situations where you have given your opinion. this is a public forum, it is accessed by member of the public. therefore we owe it to them to bakc up our claims with suitable proof. So in responnse to your post I say yes, well done on doing all you can to overcome your disability but I will judge you as I judge everyonr else in the interests of equality.

i am sorry if I have offended anyone with this.

[4th wilts]

right you are gott,i shall try my quotes and sources better.most of the posts i do make are clearly from my books,mags and things that i have read on other sites etc,and i appreciate that some off the cuff remarks might wind people up,if it does upset anyone in anyway just let me know.i hope no one is offended by your post either gott,that would offend me too.equality has a quality all of its own.i dont pretend to to know much about the war,but this forum is great fun,with its knowledge,discussions and most importantly,its characters.i think i shall buy one of them word things that recognises my voice,then i can read my books out loud and file them on this p.c.my brother will be a busy man after christmas,setting this up.yours,lee.

[4th wilts]

brian,you must be bloody mad going backwards up a step,did you not fall out the front,break your neck that will,one tap and you are out.this will tickle you.i was in the duke of cornwalls spinal injuries unit,salisbury for 13months,but i found a good few friends,one was gavin who could walk a bit,he was a soldier.he used to push me about in my old wheelchair,he said it was better than some crutches.anyway,we were in salisbury city centre on new years eve,pissed as trees,got into a disabled taxi.we got back to hospital and gavin tried to pull i out of the taxi backwards all pissed up.i woke up a couple of days later in bed.i never broke a bone,but i had marks and bruises all up my backside,so i had bedrest for a week or two.i am laughing writing this but let it be a lesson to all.do not ever fall out of wheelchairs.yours,lee.

[sapper]

Salisbury? The place we went when allowed out in our "Blues" But landlords were forbidden to serve disabled soldiers alcoholic drinks, so we could not get a beer.
But there was one tea shop that served afternoon teas to the war disabled...Great!

Being we were at Lake, North of Salisbury it was our "Treat" day out.

I was discharged from Salisbury on crutches, with steel calipers, unable to walk more than a few yards without severe pain from a fractured spine, and bone grafted leg shorter than the other, and had to make my way home back to Swanage under my own steam. I do not know to this day how I got home, of how long it took me. Indeed I think I was near to death when I got home. I still cannot recall how I managed it. It was terrible just dumped outside the Hospital and left.

Things were a little different then!
I have a book that I wrote. It is the story of Five men from Sword Beach to Bremen.
Captain Edwards RE. Lionel Roebuck, East Yorks. Richard Harris 1st Suffolks. myself RE. and a sailor Stan Hough from the D day landing ship The Princess Astrid. it is called "Cameos of War"

Only one man got to Bremen!

I can send some of it to you if you are interested.
Sapper

[4th wilts]

ooff,that must of hurt,breaks of the spine hurt big time.i had a bit of bone taken off my hip and that was used to replace them smashed up vertibrae in my neck.i would love to read some of your book brian,that would be great.yours,lee.

[sapper]

The flaming enemy broke my back on a lonely road in Holland, Something with a very big BANG! They brought me back cemented to the stretcher with my own congealed blood. Then I awoke in a SPICA...A complete body cast from my chin to my toes,,,,,,Everything And with penicillin injections every 6 hours (Gangrene danger)

To save amputation, the Genius (Sir John Charnley) bone grafted my leg, and plated them with a steel plate marked with the war office arrow! Trouble is, they took the bone for the graft from my hips.. The ones that stick out to hang you trousers on!

I have no stick out bits now.. So I have to wear braces or my pants fall straight down! HELP! And to make things worse, I am a very funny shape indeed.

Shame it spoils my handsome looks... BIG GRIN!

Send me a PM with your E mail address and I will forward the story. It must not be used in the public domain as it is the personal story of these men and NOT for publication.

By the way, did you have a SPICA body cast?
Cheers Sapper