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When the the nursing home was taken over by the Germans, the matron was given 48 hours to leave it; her staff had already left. All medical stocks were in the attics of the nursing home and the German inspectors had not seen this, so my mother suggested that it all be removed for the use of the local population, leaving just 2 or 3 ‘changes’ of everything so as not to look suspicious.

There was a curfew after which no one was allowed out, I think we had about 2 hours for 2 nights in which to move the stock, but we did it, my parents loading it into an old pram and wheeling it up the road to the hall of our house where Gran and I received it and gradually carried it up to the landing, and when curfew came and Mother and Dad had to be indoors we spent the rest of the evening carrying it into our attic. Then gradually as years went by these stocks would be issued to the hospital, although few stocks lasted the duration of the Occupation, causing great hardship to those who were ill and/or needed operations.
KAYE LE CHEMINANT

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