Peter's Medals
Published on 19. August 2021
300 pages
978-1-5434-9750-2 (ISBN)
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In 1944 Peter Gayford, at the age of seventeen, rescues an airman from a crashed USAAF bomber. The Americans give him a medal. In June, army trucks pass his home; Peter joins them and drives a truck over the Channel to France on D Day.
Peter has a dead soldier's paybook. His truck is blown up and with multiple burns he is unconscious for days and on return is identified as this man. Difficulties arise when he meets the dead soldier's family.
Romance develops between Peter, his nurse, the dead soldier's widow and her mother. Peter eventually receives more medals for his gallantry including a Purple Heart for rescuing an American GI.
The story ends with Peter marrying the dead soldier's widow.
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I served eight years in the British Royal Navy mainly in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Oceans. Played cricket and rugby for the navy. On release emigrated to New Zealand in 1958, started as a truck driver and then had a thirty year career as an announcer for Radio New Zealand and NZ Television. Married a New Zealand girl and we have two sons and a daughter. In 1965, 1978 and 1995 travelled internationally with the National Band of NZ as their Compere in such places as the Hollywood Bowl. Have always had a close attraction to the theatre and was New Zealand's first Professor Higgins in MY FAIR LADY. Now retired and write novels.
