204757 Bugler John Green British Army Kings Shropshire Light Infantry from:St Andrews Road, Small Heath, Birmingham John (known as Jack) Green was my uncle who served in the KSLI during WW2. He was presumed dead being missing in action. Family recollection is that a Medical Core Officer Billy Peg found him wounded through the stomach by machine gun ammunition, and saved his life. We think this was probably in 1944. My grandmother had believed him to have been killed as we had no word of him for some time. By chance a neighbour had seen an article in the Birmingham Gazette of a solider flown home pictured on the front page with a nurse holding his hand named Green. She told my Grandmother and when she saw this newspaper it was Jack her son. He was transferred to Burntwood Hospital then to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He was revived several times and survived until 15 years ago. He was pictured with in a newspaper article with the Queen Mother when she visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. We have been trying to trace anything that relates to this story and maybe I hope that someone may recall this or have facts passed from their ancestors that they would like to share with me.
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