Post by Max on Feb 13, 2005 13:36:51 GMT -5
I went to the Medical event at Donington le Heath, got there a bit early so most people were still finishing setting up.
I didn't talk to the WW2 para's, but then they didn't seem too talkative anyway. kit wise nothing interesting to look at.
Did talk to the WW1 chaps, the old one was brilliant, when I couldn't think of any more questions he just carried on telling me stuff. all about who he was, what he did and where he fitted in to the causalty chain,
said about how most wounds were from blast and shrapnel. how all the wounds got infected with in being farm land, how shrapnel could be anything from bit of trees and rock to the man standing next to you from his buttons to his bones, also how in some blasts a man would have his own buttons or money in his pocket pushed into himself.
He had some old style soap as well, bit offious but another talking point.
What was good he had a repro map of an area of the somme, which was interesting to look at any way but it made you stop and look, he also used it to show where aid stations would be and how far man had to be carried till could be taken by a vechile.
He had some bullets, but in cases, I've got some loose of different calibers that could let public feel the weight of, .38 is three time that of 9mm.
He talked about shell splinters but didn't have any, if anyone knows someone who works in a garage ask them for the little bits out of a blown gear box or diff, they look about the same, or Tiny may be able to get some thing.
I didn't talk to the WW2 para's, but then they didn't seem too talkative anyway. kit wise nothing interesting to look at.
Did talk to the WW1 chaps, the old one was brilliant, when I couldn't think of any more questions he just carried on telling me stuff. all about who he was, what he did and where he fitted in to the causalty chain,
said about how most wounds were from blast and shrapnel. how all the wounds got infected with in being farm land, how shrapnel could be anything from bit of trees and rock to the man standing next to you from his buttons to his bones, also how in some blasts a man would have his own buttons or money in his pocket pushed into himself.
He had some old style soap as well, bit offious but another talking point.
What was good he had a repro map of an area of the somme, which was interesting to look at any way but it made you stop and look, he also used it to show where aid stations would be and how far man had to be carried till could be taken by a vechile.
He had some bullets, but in cases, I've got some loose of different calibers that could let public feel the weight of, .38 is three time that of 9mm.
He talked about shell splinters but didn't have any, if anyone knows someone who works in a garage ask them for the little bits out of a blown gear box or diff, they look about the same, or Tiny may be able to get some thing.
