Burial at Sea vs Interment

[j.sabourn]

If there is one thing I could change Brenda as regards administering first aid to bodies in pain. Is going back to what was practiced during the war and was the disposable tin/lead type ready loaded syringes . Why they ever returned to the likes of glass syringes and and seperate capsules to fill the syringe oneself, I will never know. The average person working under stress does not have a steady hand and makes the job 10 times harder just trying to fill the syringe plus the loss of time incurred. I rather think the Americans brought out this type of syringe so a casualty could if necessary and no one available just stick it in themselves if necessary. Front line soldiers carried them in their ammunition pouches. I would imagine and hope your father had such technology small as it was .JS

[Brenda Shackleton]

My Dad always said that he thanked God he was in the business of saving lives and not taking them. . Also, the Rescue Ships were fitted with small hospitals with a Surgeon and Medical Orderlies. A lead-filled syringe sounds terminal to me.
Regards
Brenda

[j.sabourn]

I just quoted lead as don’t know what they were made of. They were like a miniature pyramid and silver in colour and you just pressed your thumb on the base and pushed , then threw away or discarded. JS