Convergence

Abstract

Jack Watson was serving in the Royal Artillery. He and a colleague were ordered to report to a barracks in Tipperary. Their journey from Belfast proved something of a nightmare. They eventually arrived at the barracks in the early hours of the morning, but could find no one awake. Waking up in a large hall, that might have been a gymnasium, Jack found that he could not move. Terrified, he called to his colleague … but he was in a similar situation. Had they been struck by some mysterious illness? After initial panic and frantic struggling they realised the truth … in their exhausted state, without realising it, they had lain down on a newly painted floor and were stuck fast in their Army greatcoats! This was a couple of years before the First World War … and before it would end they would be in many other ‘sticky’ situations.