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In fact, Eric Alford never did come out of Ste. Anne de Bellevue Military Hospital. His shell shock was apparently interspersed with periods of great clarity when he preached to and comforted inmates at the mediaeval-looking jail of St. Vincent de Paul, or chatted with young MacDonald College students fishing in the dull canal. But often he fell into periods of depression, silences that even caring nurses could not break into. He died in 1953.