Percy Ball

Percy Leitch Ball served as a Signaller with the Algonquin Regiment in North-West Europe, fighting in Belgium and the Netherlands, spending the winter of 1943-44 along the Maas River. He was shot in the abdomen by a sniper while trying to repair a line in the Hochwald Forest, and was very fortunate to have been carried into a captured German pillbox by a green rookie who saved his life. He goes on to describe the trip to the field hospital by jeep and later to Nijmegen, Holland. that he was involved in the Battle of the Bulge, he describes his duties as a signaler, again describes the events that lead to Ball being wounded, being carried into a captured German pillbox by a green rookie who saved his life, the trip to the hospital in Nijmegen, going into shock while in the hospital, talking to a Padre when he