Author’s footnote
My wife’s late father, Major Colin Keartland Mole, was a twenty-three-year-old second lieutenant with the Manchester Regiment when he served in Italy in September 1944 at the Battle of Montegridolfo, in the Province of Rimini.
Despite having no medical training, he helped deliver twins to a local family during an artillery bombardment and in return, was given the honour of naming one of them after his mother, Kathleen.
After the war, he briefly took up a civilian career before joining military intelligence in West Berlin. He was there when the Berlin Wall was constructed and conducted de-briefings of escapees from the East.
This much is true.
Everything else is from the author’s imagination.