For Sapper Arthur ‘Paulus’ Woodard,
a sixteen-year-old ‘boy soldier’ at Gallipoli, 1915.

 

To my parents, Roy and Margaret Longden,
whose memories helped to inspire this book
but who did not live to see its publication.

 

And to all the staff of the Primrose Unit, Pilgrim Ward
and Godber Ward, at Bedford hospital,
who cared for my parents between February and April 2011.