A YOUNG Princetown woman serving in Iraq is keeping in touch with events back home, thanks to her parents sending her regular copies of the Times.
Twenty-one-year-old Jody Pidgeon, a combat medical technician with the army medical corps, was deployed to the Gulf on February 28, three years to the day after joining the army.
She has been based at a POW camp in Southern Iraq, where she has been dealing with casualties with injuries ranging from scratches to bullet wounds.
In a letter to her parents, who live in Princetown, Jody described how she helped a dehydrated and malnourished baby whose parents had walked for two days to bring her to the camp.
The baby remained weak after treatment, but began to make gradual progress.
The girl?s grateful parents called the English troops ?angels? in recognition of their help.
Jody said she and the other soldiers were extremely grateful for all the letters and parcels from well-wishers. One day she received seven parcels, and said she was able to distribute goodies to the entire camp.
Jody, who attended school in Princetown and Tavistock, got engaged shortly before her deployment to the Gulf and her family is planning a combined home-coming and engagement party to mark her return.
Her fiance, Dave, is also in the army, serving with the Logistics Corps.
After leaving school, Jody trained as a nursery nurse before working at play schools in Princetown and Yelverton and the Old School Nursery in Whitchurch.