1961 Press Photo Douglas Ritchie & Penny Evans

Colonel Britton speaks again: In the garden of his home at Mickleham, England, Douglas Ritchie, Colonel Britton of World War II, whose voice in British news broadcasts was known all over occupied Europe, teaches a young neighbour, Penny Evans (6), how to play chess. Rendered completely speechless and partially paralyzed by a brain hemorrhage in 1955 when he was expected to die, Colonel Britton, now 56 has fought back and learned to walk and talk again. How he did it he has told in two days in a British Broadcasting Corporation program in Britain, in which a recording of his wartime voice was contrasted with his recovered speech and in a book Stroke (Doubleday and Co., New York).

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 7--1961.



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