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FIRST AID AT HOME
BROKEN BONES
… Splints can be improvised from almost anything long enough, but they must be well padded, especially where they bear on bony points. Cut the splint material to the length required and pad with newspapers and tie round twice, using triangular bandages. Keep the patient warm. Get in touch with a doctor as soon as possible and do not omit to tell him the nature of the injury, so that he may come prepared and not lose time.
The West Australian, 1933
It took Milton about two hours to return with Nancy Wake sitting on the handlebars. He had found her asleep in the small flat she shared with another journalist, and pretended he was a suitor inviting her out for a moonlit tryst. She had recognised him and agreed without hesitation. They had meandered back l
