SICK SAILOR TRANSFERRED IN MID-OCEAN FOR URGENT OPERATION. MAY AND JUNE 1943, ABOARD HMS KENYA. WHILE AT SEA THE CRUISER HMS KENYA RECEIVED AN URGENT SIGNAL FROM THE AUSTRALIAN DESTROYER NORMAN REQUESTING THE TRANSFER OF A MEMBER OF HER CREW, ABLE SEAMAN BRUCE GILLMORE, FOR AN IMMEDIATE APPENDIX OPERATION. BOTH SHIPS DREW AS NEAR ALONGSIDE AS POSSIBLE, HMS KENYA THEN SWUNG OUT A CRADLE ATTACHED TO HER CRANE ON WHICH THE SICK MAN WAS LAID AND TRANSFERRED OVER TO THE CRUISER. - The operation on the sick man being performed by the ship's surgeons in the operating theatre of HMS KENYA

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