Can You Walk?

About the Book

From childhood as a patient for the VAD at the start of the Second World War. As a cadet at age ten to sixteen. Progressing through the ranks of the Voluntary Order of St. John of Jerusalem from 1939 to 1992. Full-time as ambulance driver to station officer to training officer to senior paramedic training superintendent from 1960 to 1992.

About the Author

I was born in 1933, the only child of Margaret and Thomas Boynton. My father worked as a boiler-smith at the steam locomotive sheds in Selby in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Voluntary Service, "unpaid," in the St. John Ambulance first as a patient then a cadet, adult member, cadet officer, area staff officer. "Officially" thirty-eight years. Actually nearer forty-seven. Full-time service "salaried" started as an ambulance man, station officer, training officer, senior paramedic training superintendent. Thirty-two years in service from 1960 to 1992.