Search or sort for the relevant findings below. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned, findings contain the names of deceased persons.Īn Inquest sittings listfor the Coroners Court is posted online at the end of every month (note: the list is subject to change). WARNING - content in these findings may be distressing to readers. If an inquest was held, the findings may include comments or recommendations made by the coroner relating to public health and safety, the administration of justice or ways to prevent similar deaths. Inquest findings (since 2004) as well as non-inquest public interest matters (since 2012) are available below.įindings are published on this website when an inquest was held or a coroner otherwise orders they be published in the public interest.Ī finding is the document handed down by a coroner at the end of an investigation into a death. Queensland Civil Administration Tribunal (QCAT)įindings and upcoming inquests - Coroners Court.Queensland Civil Administration Tribunal.I would recommend it as one to read if it is in your local bookshop but certainly wouldn't recommend you going out of your way to find it. Its a soldiers story that has you running through the hedgerows avoiding incoming MG42 fire but suffers severe slow down in places before finally fizzling out towards the end. So to summarise this book has good moments, it doesn't get bogged down in high ranking tactical discussion. On the other hand there were times when the oratory felt dry and it moved steadily through these motions for the entire book. I have read better first hand accounts of fighting in World War Two but there were some poignant and exciting moments in this book that ensured you didn't want to put it down. I recently finished reading this book and did quite enjoy it.

One of the great first-person accounts of the making of a combat veteran, in the last, most violent months of World War II. In the end, he felt not like a conqueror or a victor, but an exhausted survivor, left with nothing but his life and his emotions. Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished. 'If you survive your first day, I'll promote you.' So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy, and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled.įrom July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building.

If You Survive by George Wilson