Some time later the witness, who was heavily pregnant, had to go to a nursing home at Hemsby, in urgent need of a doctor. A doctor then came straight from Caister beach, where a man had been blown up by a mine. The doctor was later overheard saying that she had nearly died in her pregnancy. She was afterwards told that the dog was 'Old Shuck', that he had come to warn her of death, and that the man being killed by the mine had thus saved her own life.