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I came up to the Royal Free Hospital in London to start my nursing training. We had an emergency hospital in Bedfordshire which consisted of a lot of huts. We had to work very hard. I worked in the operating theatre a lot of the time. We had this huge theatre which had about eight operating tables. We took in the overflow from the military hospitals convoys of boys that were fighting, especially after D-Day. We also had a lot of German prisoners of war. We had to operate as soon as possible due to the severity of the injuries but in the meantime we plastered them up to prevent infection. Quite often they were running with lice and then we had to get the plasters off quickly and clean them off.

The Germans were frightened of us giving them an anaesthetic. A lot of them were very young boys, some as young as 16 and they would argue that they didn鈥檛 want English blood. Of course if they didn鈥檛 want it they didn鈥檛 get it. The youngsters were very brainwashed, it was very sad really.

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