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I was in the Red Cross before the beginning of the war right to the end. There was a big country house in which we looked after the boys, about 100 of them.

One day Churchill came and he was looking and talking to all the boys round the hospital and the nurses. He then said that he wanted to see the hub of the hospital. When asked where that was he said the catering staff, which I was in. Then he said he put us on a par with everybody else and made us feel quite important looking after the boys because without us, he said, no one would get better.

We had boys from the Battle of the Bulge where they had lost their friends, cut in half and their stomachs had gone. We had to start with coloured water, in those days there was no baby food, was there, and so we had to do it all from scratch, all hand made, make it as food for them so we got them well again. It was a very mind-boggling thing really because I went out of ladies fashions into that.

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