Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyo

Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyo**** Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781922488305 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2021 Publisher: Big Sky Description: This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength. Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher bearing in some of Australias most horrific battles: the Somme,

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781922488305
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2021
Publisher: Big Sky


Description:
This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength.

Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australias most horrific battles: the Somme, Bullecourt, Ypres and Villers-Bretonneux. In April 1918, at Villers-Bretonneux, he was severely gassed. His eyes were traumatised, his lungs damaged. Upon his return home, he met and married Madeline, the love of his life, started a family, and resumed his career teaching art. But eventually the effects of the mustard gas claimed his eyesight, ending his career. Courageously enduring this consequence of war, he continued contributing to society by assisting his son and son-in-law in their stained-glass window business. Advances in medicine finally restored his sight in 1968, allowing him to yet again appreciate the beauty around him, before his death in 1976.

The story of this Anzac will stir your soul. It is a story of war and bravery, pain and strength, hope and miracles.