Worthing - Broadwater Church Prior to 1919. And the Schneider Trophy.

            The Postcard

A postcard that was published by E. T. W. Dennis & Sons Ltd. of London and Sevenoaks. The card was posted in Worthing using two ½d. stamps on Wednesday the 24th. September 1919. It was sent to:

Miss P. Elliott,
16, Kenilworth Road,
Anerley,
London SE 20.

The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Dear P,
Just seen Mother off -
I daresay you will be
glad to have her back -
your gain is my loss.
It does not look quite
so fine - But I hope it
will improve by morning.
Love Dad."

The Schneider Trophy

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 24th. September 1919, an Italian Savoia 13 became the only competing aircraft to finish the 1919 Schneider Trophy race after poor weather grounded so many others.

However it was disqualified for missing a turning buoy. 

When judges asked pilot Guido Janello to complete another lap, he ran out of fuel.

Spurgeon Neel

The day also marked the birth in Memphis, Tennessee of Spurgeon Neel.

Spurgeon was an American army medical officer, first commander of the United States Army Health Services Command.

He is best known for pioneering medical evacuation of battlefield casualties using aircraft.

Neel's innovations in battlefield medicine greatly improved the survival rates for wounded soldiers. In the Great War, 8% of all injured men died of their injuries.

However in WWII it was 4.5 %; in Korea, 2.5%, and in Vietnam, 1.5%.

Neel attributed the lowering mortality rate to (1) the helicopter, (2) whole blood, (3) hospitals, and (4) highly trained personnel. As Neel pointed out, it was the medic under fire in whose hands rested the life-or-death decision for the wounded man.

Spurgeon, who was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, and Bronze Star Medal, died at the age of 83 on the 6th. June 2003, in San Antonio, Texas. 

He was laid to rest at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
   

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