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Western Mail, 4 July 1929, p. 2
Most diggers who received a "blighty," or contracted serious illness on service, will remember the medical board which had subsequently to be faced. Three medical officers of high rank and grave demeanour inspected files, asked searching questions, and then pronounced sentence - Aussie or the front. There is no doubt, too, that the decisions of the board were generally just, even if they did not always fit in with the desires of tho soldier. It was hard to convince those three men that one should be returned to Australia if the case did not warrant it: it was very hard indeed, that one was returned to France with any serious physical disability which would handicap him in the exacting duty of thec front line. At least two West Australian soldiers achieved the apparently impossible - Captain Meysey Hammond, M.C. and bar. M.M., of the 28th, and Captain Don McLeod, of the 12th. They both returned to their units after being severely wounded. Hammond with a permanently disabled arm and McLeod with his arm amputated. Each gave splendid service despite his injury, and Meysey Hammond was killed in 1918 while organising his outpost line after an attack. McLeod was again wounded in No Man's Land, near Strazecle, in 1918, while engaged on a particularly risky patrol. He lived to return to the West, and lost his life a few months back by falling down a mine shaft in the Nor' West. We all know that with all his faculties a man needed a stout heart to do his job "over there." These men, carrying on, disabled as they were, must have possessed in addition the moral qualities of super-men.