Eric was shipped to the army hospital in Iserlohn, where he stayed for some time. I remember that for a while they would not allow him to look in a mirror as he was a pretty ghastly sight..

Anyway we shared this facility with the Canadians and he shared his room with a couple of Canadian guys who were in due to damage caused in some kind of drunken fight. All the patients once able to move around, were given white shirts and if I remember it correctly red ties to signify they were patients and were not allowed to leave the hospital premises. Anyway at least once (and I believe twice but would not swear to it) they went on the lam and got into another drunken brawl. When the nurses arrived next morning they were in a similar state to the day they had arrived having sustained new damage.

I believe they eventually discharged them to stop this revolving door scenario.

To follow up on John's comment re Eric being accident prone; he almost sustained serious damage from me one time outside of Innsbruck. We were doing a motor cycle tour of several countries on a VERY restricted budget and on arrival I had agreed to set up the tent etc while he took our limited food budget to get victuals.

He did not show up until very, very late, totally drunk, having spent most of our allowance on booze. The only food he had purchased was a large chunk of totally disgusting Austrian cheese. You can imagine how hungry I was at this point and came really close to either injuring him severely and leaving him behind to find his own way back to Dortmund.

I was still mad days later.