Sir Themi Zammit. First Aid To The Injured

This a translated edition of the First Aid To The Injured by Sir Themi Zammit. (in Maltese) Apparently it was done so the English residing on the islands can get some knowledge to the language .
https://www.pressreader.com/malta/malta-independent/20200326/281779926217724

 

I know him from Maltese archaeology, he was very important for the knowledge of the country's early history. It's a name I never forgot, Themistocles Zammit.

 

Yes very well known and remembered in Malta. He did brilliant work

 

Do you read Maltese?

 

No, I don't. I used to know how to say thank you and a few other words, but that was all.

 

Grazzi for your help

 

I do not believe that the English interest in Malti was the starting point, but it's a simple translation for Maltese hospital employees.
the Maltese language is a mixture of Arab from the Maghreb and Arab spoken in Sicily before the Normans drove most Arabs out of Sicily. lateron it was highly influenced by Sicilian, standard Italian, some Spanish due the Aragonese reign in Sicily.
French was practically only used with the Hospitallers; the Grand Master de la Vallette also gave the name to La Valletta.
there was little use for such a book because the Hospitaliters were French-speakers for the most part in the higher ranks and the French were also the most important group by building the Maltese defence works and the big and high rooms for the sick that can still be visited.

 

Well, that was simple, how could I forget!

 

Author's name reads like an anagram.

Debora

 

Maltese harbour 1920-1930

 

Beautiful, thank you for posting it Hachiko.
It still looks pretty much the same, in spite of the heavy bombing during WW II, when Maltese civil bravery and the Hal Far Fighter Flight including bi-planes Faith, Hope, and Charity impressed the world.

 

It is a Maltese surname, and of course a Greek first name.

 

Even to date the port is as beautiful as it was then surrounded by the forts. I was moved watching the video...

 

they can lie all...

 

You seem well versed on the history

 

I remember being very impressed by those enormous fortress walls. I have travelled the world (and the seven seas) but I can't remember ever seeing anything like that.

Faith, a Gloster Gladiator that helped protect Malta during WW II:

 

I love Malta, and I like research.

 

Forgot to add, I've visited Malta several times, both on business and for pleasure. It is addictive.

 

Over the 10 days from June 11-21, 1940, these three Gladiators (really six aircraft used interchangeably) and their dedicated volunteer pilots formed Malta’s only defense against enemy bombing raids. Later in June a few Hurricane fighters bolstered the island’s defense; but still the old Gladiators had to take to the air. "You would take off in a Gladiator with some of the few Hurricanes we had on the island and head up towards the Italians," Flight Lieutenant James Pickering remembered many years later. "Sometimes there would be a hundred plus—clouds of bombers and fighters swarming above. And then, in a moment, you would be on your own—everything else had overtaken you."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themistocles_Zammit

Other well-known people named Zammit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zammit