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The 4th (1st Southern) Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps (TA)

Malim, Hooper and Parkes from Torquay and Dr. Dowell from Brixham. Drs Malim and Hooper returned to their...

Injured Whilst Evacuated: To Holyhead

I was evacuated with my Mother Grace, Sisters Eileen, Josie, Phyllis and Brothers John and Danny in...

A Romance - That nearly went with a BANG!icon for Story with photo

It was a freezing cold, moonlit winter's night in 1940-1941 when my Rescue Unit, based at a Smethwick...

In the Firing Line: Reg Gill's Story of the Malta Hospitalsicon for Story with photo

The hospital was in a direct line between Sicily and the Grand harbour with its world famous massive...

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Romance

My father & mother's story - At 19 & an apprentice electrician in Chelmsford, Essex Ken was...

Two Weeks in Dock in Naples and Not a Wound to Show for it!icon for Story with photo

Two Weeks in Dock in Naples and Not a Wound to Show for it. When we arrived at Naples the city was...

Grabbag of Memories: Parallel Lives: Life in Occupied Holland-Part 2.

"When the german nun, in charge ,went to chapelI I heard many heroïc stories.One guy who had a...

My Hero: An Ambulance Driver during the Liverpool Blitz

He also helped to lite the bonfires on fields,which later became Skelmsdale,to try to fool the german...

Signing Up

Things were unsettled in Europe at this time, of course, following Neville Chamberlain's talks with...

Three Hundred and Sixteen Thousand and One: With the RAMC in France 1940

He did serve in the RAMC in France and was at Dunkirk. He told me the story of how he and another...

Civilian and Service Memories: With the Red Cross and Wrens

I trained as Air Radio Mechanic at Chelsea Polytechnic for 5 months, living in historic Crosby Hall, then 4...

Training to Be a Fever Nurse in 1939

In 1939, the same fear existed at the mention of Poliomyelitis - Meningitis - Diphtheria - Scarlet Fever...

Treating STDs in the Royal Army Medical Corps

I joined the Royal West Kent's infantry in Maidstone in 1940 and after initial training I was...

A Young Nurse in Wartime Norwich

The day War was declared, I was working at the old Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and several of us girls...

Volunteer Ambulance Drivers

She always told stories of the comradeship in FI Division and indeed the drivers remained friends until...

Wartime Nursing

It was my morning off on sunday 3rd September I went to church ,were we were told that we had declard war,...

A Trainee Nurse in Neath

My stories revolve around the Swansea and Neath area of Wales. But in February 1941 reality arrived —...

North Africa & Italy 42-45

I arrived in North Africa in 1942 and when the campaign finished there we went to Sicily and on to Italy....

Diary of locations WW2

Private 7344339 Stephen Fredrick Darke RAMC. On 21st April 1945, Germans left the camp — On 28th...

French Wounded from Dunkirk

Those who wished to go home would be put on a British destoryer and taken immediately to a port on the...

Pre-National Health Service - Penicillin (?) in Rugby

Pre-National Health Service - Penicillin in Rugby. Now I wonder if it was penicillin in the hands' of...

Memories: In Pontypool Hospital

One night on ARP duty, you could see Cardiff being bombed — incendiary bombs falling — and one...

Past Medical History: Suffering from Meningitis in an Ipswich Hospital

Diagnosis: Meningitis Child aged 3-4 Time: 1941-1942 I don't recall nice food, sweets, chocolate,...

Nursing in the Middle East and Italy

My mother, ‘Billie’ Kenny, served with the TANS and later the Queen Alexandra's Nursing...

RAMC, Rank and Responsibilty: A Radiographer's Tale in Malta

Reg Gill was a radiographer in 45th General hospital on Malta From 1941 to 1944....

Royal Army Medical Corps, My Experiences 2

I went into science with the Ministry of Defense but in 1944 I was called to the forces and had to go...

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