This picture shows the injury to my left leg. I nearly lost that too. I managed to walk out of the Sari Bar with that wound. If I didn’t walk out then I would have been burned alive. I also sustained shrapnel cuts in my back, deflated lung, hole in my thigh and right torso plus perforated eardrum). You are probably quite shocked by these pictures but what you see is the harsh reality of what happened. But I survived.
That day was horrendous! What happened that day made the program “Casualty” look like a picnic. The hospital was overwhelmed with casualties and ran out of antibiotics. Gangrene entered my lower right arm and had to be amputated when I was evacuated to Darwin in Australia. I’d be a dead man if the Australians hadn’t evacuated me. The British government would have left me for dead in Bali and yet the British Honory Consulate in Bali received OBE (Order of the British Empire) awards. I write these words with no doubt in my mind.
