Medical Units

Wartime Diary (February 1942)

Took taxi into town with ……, Ted and Cliff. Ted, Frank, Cliff, Bernard and I on the Christian...

Wartime Nursing in North Africa and Italy

At Sousse we worked extremely hard, admitting nursing casualties from Sicily and Southern Italy and spent 3...

I Was Lucky: Memories of the Royal Army Medical Corps

An amusing incident occurred when I was in the Field Hospital, there was an outbreak of a disease caused by...

From 10th May 1940 to end of May 1940 at Dunkirk

One day our transport with drivers were taken and a few days later they were returned and had been carrying...

Wartime Plastic Surgery Part 3

BILL SIMPSON wrote "One of our Pilots is Safe" and tells the fascinating story of his long journey...

THE LUCK OF THE DRAW

It was about 2am in the morning of Saturday, 1st June 1940 and we were in the Casino at a place called...

Post-Dunkirk Memoirs of Sgt (later W.O) 7346129 Norman Smith RAMC

After his death his sons added to it with their mother's story and the years that Norman and Irene...

Wartime Plastic Surgery Part 2

Three main wards were so constructed, Ward I for dental and jaw injuries with a separate Dental hut as a...

From Schools To University

After school at Huyton Liverpool she went to Atholl Crescent Domestic Science College in Edinburgh for a...

Nursing from Bangor to Bombay and Beyond (Plus the Colditz Hymnbook)

Life in the Forces Psychiatric Service

10 — Alec and Joyce Sheppard talk about their wartime: Alec, a trained craft teacher, as an artillery...

A Medical Student in the Blitz; Relieving Belsen Camp

Dr. Michael Coigley: In Henry VI part II, when Jack Cave the Kentish rebel gets to Smithfield in London and...

Reg Gill: RAMC Training and Recruitment, 1939

I went there and reported to Sergeant radiographer who said "Oh you're that bloke from the 18th. I...

A teenager's view of WW2: In Dorking and Durham

I was not a very academic pupil but I somehow scraped through the General School Certificate with two...

What Did You Do In The War, Aunty Mabel

MY posting shortly after with another Sister from the same draft, was to No.1 Mobile Military Hospital...

Wartime Plastic Surgery Part 1

The method adopted at East Grinstead for solving this difficulty and proceeding with Resettlement is by...

A Child In Hospital in WW2

Ingatestone had no barrage-balloons but my older brother David once saw one on fire; drifting across...

Wartime inthe Ambulance Service

Other weekends I went to see Reg in Tolfiny in North Wales. Reg was away in Wales when he received a...

A Medical Corps Unit lands in Normandy, June 1944

We followed over and landed on the Eighth of June, at 11.00h I think it was Sword Beach. This was Sword...

Thoroughly Adaptable Milly - Part Two

They were still in Courtrai for Christmas 1944: Milly remembered collecting sugar from the orderlies to...

The Post Mortem - A Lighter Anecdote

Their intercommunication was so limited that they could not discuss the prospect of meeting their Russian...

The Man Who Never Was, chapter 1

Around April 1943, as the First Army's campaign in North Africa was coming to an end, I was struck down...

A Journey to the Unknown

When night came we could see lights from towns on the South African shore, first at Port Elizabeth and the...

The Outbreak of War

A friend who had been a boarder at Bablake School, Coventry at the same time as myself was happy to take me...

HMS Barham - Last Month

In the same way, if the body is widely burned, the burned parts throw out great amounts of plasma which are...

Germ Warfare: Clare Hall Hospital

USA Army Surgeon-General Bushnell's famous remark lies at the base of all treatment: "For...