Soldiers being kind to kids and civilians

This, from an article I once posted on ww2talk.com:

In the early hours of this morning I found myself transported back some sixty odd years to an incident that occurred to me in post-war Austria.

I was witness at the time to a minor event that, had I not recorded it in my diary, I would long ago have passed off as a dream or a figment of my imagination.

Later this morning I trawled through my PC to look at the relevant period.

My diary for the day simply said:

Thursday 26th. July 1945
Out with Yates in Dingo for more eggs. Lt.Balfour is approaching flapping climax. Tried piano in 1st. Troop's billets. Helped Red Cross woman to get petrol.

I found that I had elaborated on this in a piece I had posted on the BBC WW2 site which went like this:

This item in my diary about a " Red Cross women" was like something out of a film.
I was on guard outside our billets when an ambulance type vehicle pulled up and an English speaking women got out and asked me if we could help her. The ambulance was full of young kids, orphans or ‘lost’ children and she was driving them South to, as she put it, "get them away from the Russians".
All she wanted from us was petrol and I roused the duty officer to see what could be done. We must have given her some fuel because by daybreak she was gone.

The full article is here:
BBC - WW2 People's War - Life in Wartime Austria: 4th Queen's Own Hussars July to August 1945

The question I suppose I am really asking myself this morning is
Who was the woman,
Who were the kids
and where did they all eventually end up ?

Ron

 

Caption on internet said:

A sergeant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps bandages the wounded ear of a dog in 1944

 

Caption from Time Magazine:

In a photo that somehow comprises both tenderness and horror, an American Marine cradles a near-dead infant pulled from under a rock while troops cleared Japanese fighters and civilians from caves on Saipan in the summer of 1944. The child was the only person found alive among hundreds of corpses in one cave.

 

Vietnam

 

A more modern variant on keeping the kids entertained...

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