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Does anyone else remember Canada House in Gillingham? It was a Royal Naval and Maritime Maternity Hospital. New babies were born to servicemen there.

I remember one night very clearly. Two nights earlier there had been two screaming bombs hit the area and the Matron evacuated everyone into the corridors away from the windows. My job was to help the Matron. I wasn鈥檛 a nurse but I helped make the beds and things. I was there was eight years. At 10.10pm everyone had gone to bed. Then the bomb fell. Gillingham Bus depot was hit and around midnight the private wing of the hospital also got hit. It was the Matron who saved everyone鈥檚 lives by putting them all in the corridors where the walls were thick. All the babies survived and Matron Davies got the MBE for what she did that night.

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