The first day of the war as a training Nurse in a London hospital I was evocated in a double Decker bus...
Limited space made dressing difficult but starched white aprons and caps are designed to be effective and...
Betty Boothroyd, the former Speaker of the House of Commons, has traced six of the small, surviving group...
He ended up a staff Sergeant, so he must've done all right, and we married in 1942, when I was working...
Nursing after Dunkirk and D-Day. I then moved to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital in Birmingham for general...
Ethel volunteered to serve in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing service on the 27th July...
In the forty-bedded ward were 20 Free French patients and 20 German wounded prisoners of war! As student...
Recently this all came back to me when I found a Dutch Bible in my husband's study, found by me during...
St Thomas’ main base was Botley's Park, with several wards at two mental hospitals near Woking...
They were not taken to the basement as the Colonel said that the Germans are bombing us so what was the...
The same month, the Germans marched into Oslo and King Haakan and his government came to England and...
And the nursing home was where the Civic Hall now is; in the Wartime it was turned into a maternity home,...
We heard the low drone of enemy aircraft and my mother dashed out of the back door to get the washing in,...
I was living in Norwich during the war and working at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital as a laundry maid. I...
Ack-ack units were firing at the German planes and the sky was lit up with searchlights from all over...
We also met wounded prisoners, who went to the exam hall in Downing Street, Cambridge. Cambridge had...
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