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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The 15th Casualty Clearing Section, a field hospital, landed on D+2 and opened i
 
 ![Timeline of nearby BGHs](/timeline.png)
 
-Given this background it is not surprising that British hospital facilities at Cancello expanded rapidly in response to the casualty rate. In January 1944 100 BGH became effective, followed by 69 BGH in February and 72 BGH in May, and then in June 5 BGH, 11 BGH and 48 BGH. Finally, in July, 31 BGH began treatment. This sequencing is shown in the figure below, that identifies the deployments at Cancello, BGHs operating in Rome, their subsequent onward movement, 22 BGH’s final deployment at Mestre and Mac’s period of leave. The first point to reinforce is that neither 50 BGH in which Mac began service nor 22 BGH in which he ended it arrive at Cancello. Thus, he must have transferred to another unit to be at Cassino and then transferred to 22 BGH subsequently (22 BGH is the only hospital to be stationed at Mestre). Which of the seven Cancello hospitals is most likely? The stand-out one is 69 BGH as it left Cancello and went to Rome in March 1945 and then disbanded at the end of September 1945. The running down of 69 BGH would have provided Mac with the administrative opportunity to drift into the background in Rome before re-emerging from the shadows in order to get his LIAP approved on 18<sup>th</sup> October 1945. When he returned to Italy from leave he most likely transferred to 22 BGH and ended his service in Mestre.
+Given this background it is not surprising that British hospital facilities at Cancello expanded rapidly in response to the casualty rate. In January 1944 100 BGH became effective, followed by 69 BGH in February and 72 BGH in May, and then in June 5 BGH, 11 BGH and 48 BGH. Finally, in July, 31 BGH began treatment. This sequencing is shown in the figure above, that identifies the deployments at Cancello, BGHs operating in Rome, their subsequent onward movement, 22 BGH’s final deployment at Mestre and Mac’s period of leave. The first point to reinforce is that neither 50 BGH in which Mac began service nor 22 BGH in which he ended it arrive at Cancello. Thus, he must have transferred to another unit to be at Cassino and then transferred to 22 BGH subsequently (22 BGH is the only hospital to be stationed at Mestre). Which of the seven Cancello hospitals is most likely? The stand-out one is 69 BGH as it left Cancello and went to Rome in March 1945 and then disbanded at the end of September 1945. The running down of 69 BGH would have provided Mac with the administrative opportunity to drift into the background in Rome before re-emerging from the shadows in order to get his LIAP approved on 18<sup>th</sup> October 1945. When he returned to Italy from leave he most likely transferred to 22 BGH and ended his service in Mestre.
 
 This is by no means a certain hypothesis, but it is the most plausible as 48 BGH (the only other one to serve at both locations) continued on to Graz from September 1945. To the best of my recollection of his comments about the time in Rome, Mac mentioned 9 months as the period that he was anonymous. By this criterion, 69 BGH is the best fit if he became detached when it moved to Rome. For 48 BGH he would have to have become detached after the deployment in Rome had begun. Of the others, Assissi is 80 miles north of Rome, Azezzo 110 miles north of Rome, Afragola is 120 miles south east in the vicinity of Naples and Rimini on the east coast 150 miles north of Rome. For any of 5 BGH, 11 BGH, 31 BGH, 54 BGH, 72 BGH or 100 BGH to be units in which Mac served we would have to assume that he was ‘lost’ after the move from Cancello and just found has way to Rome but they had moved a distance from Rome well before the LIAP time window. In the case of 104 BGH he would have had to transfer units a second time and become detached whilst the hospital was deployed in Rome. 54 BGH also requires him to transfer units twice before Mestre. Maybe the transfer from 50 BGH to 69 BGH was temporary to alleviate the Cassino rush and this helped with the administrative confusion that facilitated the period of freedom afforded by His Majesty.