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After leaving school at the age of 16, I began work at the GPO (General Post Office), in the over seas section, this had to be one of the most boring jobs!!! Therefore I decided to train to be a nurse.

I completed my training in 1944, which I subsequently learnt to actually be D day, so as I'm sure you can imagine, possibly for all the wrong reaons I found myself in one of the most frantic jobs of my life!!

Once at the hospital the matron told me "You're going to have to form a 'casualty clearing centre'".

The following day alot of green line buses came to collect us volunteers and deliver us to Maidstone, where we were to create the casualty clearing centres. Here we awaited casualties from France.

The first casualties treatments were for wound dressings and we noticed that they were wet from the sea. However as time passed, we could clearly see the progression of war as the casualties injuries were worse and they no longer were wet from the sea, clearly the battles had moved inland.

When the casualties arrived on stretchers, their boots were tied to the end. This of course was because to lose them was an offence. However, as nurses we were unaware of this and threw them away!! Later in the war all casualty clearing centres got moved to Europe.

The fact that even operating within the war effort I was unaware of D-Day, conveys the secrecy of the war.

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