Stories categorised in 'Nursing and Medicine'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
After reporting to matron's office, I was introduced to the assistant matron, she accompanied me to the...
Typhoid Fever During the final year of my training as a nurse, there was an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in...
Coventry Cathedral was bombed and burnt to the ground. The train could not get into Coventry because the...
From South Africa to India From Cape Town, we went to Bombay. There we were billeted at the Taj Mahal...
So the Colonel got them all together and said that in England, in the winter, snow came up to your neck,...
Surgical and theatre nursing At the end of my first year I was despatched to work as a junior theatre...
Everyone knows the British settled in India to trade, but so did all the other seafaring nations, the...
When Ted became Chief Ground Instructor at RAF Guinea Fowl in Gwelo in the centre of the country we moved...
Longdon Hall was situated far from the sea in the beautiful Staffordshire countryside about five miles from...
Then there was another station, H.M.S "Benbow", for the officers and crews of a large fleet of...
The following are two letters that she has written to me, describing her nursing work during the beach...
When the war started Mary Weightman, then 34, was Nurse in Charge of Borden Memorial Hospital, Lanchow,...
On leaving Manchester I applied to the RAF and had an interview at the Air Ministry in London. I was taken...
Goering's nephew on my ward In due course I was given my orders to report to the matron of Nutley...
As there was time to spare before the train came I would wait on the Crawley Post Office step for the Post...
This is Margaret Ellis's story of serving in France as an army nurse during World War Two....
I joined as a Nursing Sister with the Red Cross and seconded to the Air Force but then transferred to the...
Elizabeth often told the following story of her lucky escape: As the Blitz intensified she was working as a...
One night after working flat out for well over 48 hrs we were called out to the Old Roan Pub - the...
During the D-Day period I was a Red Cross VAD working as an Operating Room Assistant at the Royal Naval...
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