Dead Hero Come Back to Life

May 13, 1918
Daisy Yao
Staff Reporter

Yesterday, in a special hospital in Buckinghamshire, England, a Canadian soldier who has been presumed died in the Third Battle of Ypres in November, 1917, regained his consciousness.

Dunstable Ramsay, a Canadian soldier who has killed three German soldiers in the Third Battle of Ypres in Passchendaele. His left leg was seriously injured and lost conscious on the battlefield. Since his identification disks had been burned up, people presumed him as sacrificed during the battle.

After almost six months, he regained his consciousness, and still could remember his name and everything else that had happened. “This is incredible! I thought he will lay unconscious forever!” says Diana Marfleet, the nurse who takes care of Dunstanle Ramsay.

It is reported that Dunstable Ramsay’s left leg was hit by a fragment of exploding shell and his chest and left side were badly burned by a flare. “He was a lucky man! Although his left leg had been amputated, but he survived!” says Bill House, Dunstable Ramsay’s doctor.

Since Ramsay regained his consciousness, so the Victoria Cross that had been awarded to him posthumously could be presented to him in person. The medal was award to him for bravery in killing the three Germans. “Ramsay is a hero, and his bravery should be honored!” says the spokesman of King George V, “We hope he recover soon, to be able to attend the ceremony at Buckingham Palace.”