Medical Units

In Uniform: Nurse and Soldier

Convoys of German and Italian POWs were brought in to Mauchline Station and also our own wounded...

Sept.17: A Nurse in Occupied Holland

A cloudless Sunday.We ,nurses, were bringing lunches around on a floor for wounded german officers and for...

The Late Escape (From Dunkirk)

After 'volunteering' for Army service in 1939, my father Ivor Bishop was sent to France, with 7th...

Recollections of Southmead Hospital

Phyllis worked at Southmead Hospital during the war as a conscript. Phyllis remembers the bombs falling all...

From Firewatcher to TB Nurse

She wanted to make a difference, but because she was working for the Civil Service in the Ministry of...

A Strange Co-incidence

My grandfather,Henri Georges, was born in France in 1887 and came to England to work for Adalina Patti at...

It Wasn't All About Fighting

One morning on parade, the RSM explained that a young lad had been knocked over by a motor vehicle, a car I...

Saved from the Beach: With the RASC at Dunkirk

Mr Jones hopes to be able to return to Le Pan for the Anniversary -- he has visited Dunkirk since the War,...

Belfast Blitz

I lived in Ballynure Street, off the Oldpark Road in Belfast during the Blitz. I was at a dance at...

Working Sisters: In the Medical Services and the ATS

My younger sister Pauline volunteered for nursing duites in the war. My elder sister joined the ATS and was...

Running away

We prepared seemingly endless dressings while squadrons of planes flew overhead towards the French coast. I...

War Time Memories: The Civil Nursing Reserve

A Civil Defence Rescue Section was also formed; members of the St John Ambulance Brigade from Jarrow and...

One never knows: Occupied Holland

I changed from a student in Holland to become a R.N. during the occupation of the Germans.The management of...

Last Ambulance From Dunkirk

I was one of three ambulances ferrying wounded from a Dunkirk Dressing Station, and the Germans were only...

Four in a Bed: A Mixed Children's Ward in Burslem

Mum and Dad made me up a makeshift bed downstairs....

Royal Army Medical Corps, My Exeriences

There were soon vacancies in a laboratory at the General Head Quaters in New Delhi and I soon had the...

Finding Love At Netley

When WW2 broke, my mother was in the first group as a Sister in the Queen Alexandra's to be sent to...

"Were you there, Grandad?": Royal Army Medical Corps

The story starts from call-up in 1939, basic training, BEF France, evacuation from Dunkirk, more training,...

Scarlet Fever: Chell, Stoke-on-Trent

My Grandad fought in the war... My mother, his 5 year old daughter, was in hospital with scarlet fever and...

Hero is a Man Named DAD

My Dad was working in the local hospital when war broke out so he had to go into The Royal Army Medical...

Mummys Panties: Visiting a Badly Burnt Father in Hospital

I must have been about two and a half years old, but I remenber having him pointed out to me in his...

Sweet and Loving

My mother ,Mary Loving was an army nurse . During 1943 she was based at St Thomas's in London.Whilst...

D Day at Wormingford air base

D Day at Wormingford air base...

US Hospital Staff part2

US Hospital Staff part2...

US Hospital Staff

US Hospital Staff...

Albert John Munson's Pay Book and Identity Card

Albert John Munson's Pay Book and Identity Card...