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Object description
Ts memoir (173pp) of her experiences as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), 1942 - 1945, containing useful references to her duties, working conditions and colleagues at: Hintlesham Convalescent Hospital, Suffolk, May - September 1942; Colchester Military Hospital (with No 9 Company Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)) September 1942 - January 1943 and May - August 1943, where she noted drug taking among nurses and comments on medical care, the treatment of casualties from North Africa (including US Forces), resulting cases of dysentery amongst the staff, air raids and the bombing of the hospital (summer 1943); the gunsite camp reception centre at Bayton Cross near Chelmsford, January - May 1943 and August - September 1943, with references also to the treatment of mental patients, morality and her romance with an RAMC Sergeant; and the gun site camp reception centre at St Peter's near Broadstairs, Kent, September 1943 - December 1944, covering in addition her reactions to an horrific aircraft accident witnessed while on leave in Suffolk and her survival of the bombing of a troop train in which she was travelling. She continued to work for the Red Cross as an escort after her compassionate discharge in February 1945. Copies of eleven of her wartime poems and an original drawing of a tank executed by one of her patients have been placed with the collection.
Content description
Ts memoir (173pp) of her experiences as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), 1942 - 1945, containing useful references to her duties, working conditions and colleagues at: Hintlesham Convalescent Hospital, Suffolk, May - September 1942; Colchester Military Hospital (with No 9 Company Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)) September 1942 - January 1943 and May - August 1943, where she noted drug taking among nurses and comments on medical care, the treatment of casualties from North Africa (including US Forces), resulting cases of dysentery amongst the staff, air raids and the bombing of the hospital (summer 1943); the gunsite camp reception centre at Bayton Cross near Chelmsford, January - May 1943 and August - September 1943, with references also to the treatment of mental patients, morality and her romance with an RAMC Sergeant; and the gun site camp reception centre at St Peter's near Broadstairs, Kent, September 1943 - December 1944, covering in addition her reactions to an horrific aircraft accident witnessed while on leave in Suffolk and her survival of the bombing of a troop train in which she was travelling. She continued to work for the Red Cross as an escort after her compassionate discharge in February 1945. Copies of eleven of her wartime poems and an original drawing of a tank executed by one of her patients have been placed with the collection.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1990-07