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Air Raid on St Mary's Hospital, Paddington

by Moellis

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Moellis
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Catherine (Kitty) Gibson
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St Mary's Hospital Paddington
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A2031012
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12 November 2003

My mother was born three days before the Armistice in 1918 on the West Coast of Ireland on a farm situated on a spit of land from where you can see the Shannon on one side and the Atlantic on the other. In 1936 when she was seventeen, she came to London to train as a nurse. She lived in London for the next 51 years. During the war she was a nurse at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. She often referred to the war years as the best time of her life but there were many sad and tragic events as well. One night she was supposed be working but had a date with a Canadian pilot. One of her colleagues, a Jamaican nurse called Diana, offered to swap shifts with her. That night the hospital was bombed and Diana was killed. By 1946 my mother had married and gave birth to her eldest child, a daughter whom she named Diana

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