Jim, is it possible that the wounded man was visited at a station close to the front (not a hospital) and that the son mistook the visit to be the preceeding day when the father had said that it was "just before the event? I wouldn't be ready to claim it was all bunkum and bosh without knowing the seed of truth behind the account. I'm going to be cautious about dismissing it alltogether without really knowing for certain about all of the actual facts, whatever they might be and however long it takes to divulge them. How can anyone KNOW for certain what exactly took place? I certainly don't and I'm going to be cautious in making any definite conclusions from 90 plus years away from the events. Not saying that you haven't brought some very important facts into focus. Well done. Why don't we look into it further then and see what we can see as far as we're able to from what we can gather. I think that the story warrants further invfestigation and to conclude, at this point, that the story is just BS is unsound.