Brian Elliott seemed to be the only one still carrying a weapon. He stood protectively over Colin Lewis who sat slumped against the base of the tree behind which they rested. It was then that Chap realised Lewis was badly wounded.
‘Big Fella’ Colin Lewis, the biggest and toughest of them all, sat slumped on the jungle floor with his back against the trunk of the tree. His eyes dropped to his hands and he stared in shock and awe as his bloodied intestines slipped through his fingers. He moaned pitifully as he tried in vain to push them back into the gaping, jagged hole in his abdomen where gunfire had almost cut him in two. Only the Big Fella could have made it this far into the almost impenetrable jungle without succumbing sooner to his horrific wounds.
When Lewis eventually looked up an
