Stories categorised in 'Medical Units'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
To assist him, the Embarkation Officer would instruct an Officer from one of the waiting groups to call out...
The Brigade consisted originally of three Infantry Regiments, all regular or regular reservists, 1sr...
Shortly after allied troops captured Naples on the first October 1943 our hospital was dismantled and we...
A supply of body lice was required for testing on DDT, and I and a few of the small group of friends...
En route to Scapa Flow, Barham had a disastrous collision with HMS Duchess and was later torpedoed off the...
After training, I travelled to Ormskirk, where we received medical training in a civilian hospital and then...
I was ordered to report for a medical at the recruiting station based at the Odd Fellows Hall, Queen Road...
The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. Luftwaffe permitting, my mother put my sister and...
A further team consisting of surgeons, housemen and nurses reported for duty in the basement of Lewis's...
I should explain that I was a ‘conshy’ and being awarded non-combatant status in the Army, had,...
Events overtook - sent in an advance party to Belgium, the Ardennes, Battle of the Bulge; to assist CCP...
It took some hours, but the Army managed to send them mutton, goat, rice, chuppaties and potatoes all...
My Dad was in hospital in the Manchester Royal Infirmary; my mother and younger sister had been evacuated...
I passed the home of the Medical Officer of Health and the view I saw made me gasp, rolling lawns, a lake,...
Although I was only 11 years old at the time and Reg was older we were great friends and buddies, and spent...
My father was a medical orderly and after a year in Belgium under fire was finally in action on the Beaches...
In the late summer of 1944 I was at an Infantry Training Centre in Maidstone, Kent... We landed up on the...
Whilst recuperating in Holland Park Military Hospital he met an extraordinary character, Sgt. Major...
Born in 1910, Norah Taylor trained as a volunteer first aider and ambulance driver in Coventry and drove...
Nicky Rutter, my mother, was a paedriatic nurse in Manchester at the outbreak of war. Eventually, patience...
I had my kit bag all packed up and was making my way back up when I was confronted by an Irish...
I was taken to the Medical Officer, then to Tobruk hospital... The dentist took needles and pliers and...
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