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Presented to his nurse, Sister Clewley, Ward ‘C’, CMH Avoli
by M.A. Khan

The days are passing peacefully
And the Spring is there
Let the Xmas bells ring all over the year
To wish you every happiness,
and to wish you every cheer

Will never forget you my dear Sister
May New Year bring you good luck, every year
Let the stars go round and round over sky
To wish you every success
and to wish you a bright New Year

With best compliments,

From M.A. Khan (571 I.S.S. 130 Ind Supp Corps)
1/1/1946
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Sister Clewley trained at Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, London between 1940 and 1944 when she reached SRN. She joined the Queen Alexandra’s Nursing Service and served in Normandy 3 weeks after D-Day, landing on the beaches. In September 1944 she served through France to Belgium nursing both British and German casualties until the end of the European war. She has memories of Monty visiting every soldier on her ward, and admiring her embroidery.
She was then transferred to Madras, Poona and Sialkot in India where she met her Royal Engineer husband, Keith Sandiford who had been engaged in heavy bridge building in the Italian campaign. In India, however, he was deployed retraining returning troops in cottage industries.
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Submitted for Mrs Connie Sandfiord (nee Clewley)

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