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Description: | Anecdotal but witty ts account (8pp) written by an unidentified nurse, possibly for a speech given to members of the Church Mission Society in the 1980s, on her experiences of working as a nurse from 1915-1946, including time spent as a VAD in a military hospital in Netley, Hampshire (1915-1918), then as a midwife in Bermondsey, South London before moving to Cyprus, where she met her husband; their return to England in 1940, where she became Matron of a convalescent hospital in Hereford before being posted to France (1944), where she worked in a casualty clearing station near the Normandy beaches, before being posted to a military hospital in Louvain, Belgium, where she tended German prisoners until the end of the war.
Cataloguer EP | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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