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Object description
Ts memoir (6pp) about her experiences as an evacuee first in Groombridge, Kent (September 1939 - May 1940, aged four at the outbreak of war), until an accident resulted in her being sent to nearby Speldhurst Auxiliary Hospital where she was reunited with her mother, who was the matron of the sick bay for sick evacuees, and lived happily until summer 1944 (when they moved to Nottingham), describing her heartbreak at the loss of their dog to the Army for war service, life in the village, air raids, and visits to the cinema in Tunbridge Wells where they often saw plastic surgery patients from the nearby East Grinstead Hospital; together with photocopies of an ms register (26pp) kept by her mother (November 1939 - December 1943) in which she recorded her patients' names, ages, billet and home addresses, the illnesses for which they were admitted and where and to whom they were discharged; and photocopies of six wartime photographs featuring her and her mother and four airgrams and three airmail letters (8pp, March 1943 - May 1945) to her from her father who was serving as a Private with the RAMC in Ceylon and North Africa.
Content description
Ts memoir (6pp) about her experiences as an evacuee first in Groombridge, Kent (September 1939 - May 1940, aged four at the outbreak of war), until an accident resulted in her being sent to nearby Speldhurst Auxiliary Hospital where she was reunited with her mother, who was the matron of the sick bay for sick evacuees, and lived happily until summer 1944 (when they moved to Nottingham), describing her heartbreak at the loss of their dog to the Army for war service, life in the village, air raids, and visits to the cinema in Tunbridge Wells where they often saw plastic surgery patients from the nearby East Grinstead Hospital; together with photocopies of an ms register (26pp) kept by her mother (November 1939 - December 1943) in which she recorded her patients' names, ages, billet and home addresses, the illnesses for which they were admitted and where and to whom they were discharged; and photocopies of six wartime photographs featuring her and her mother and four airgrams and three airmail letters (8pp, March 1943 - May 1945) to her from her father who was serving as a Private with the RAMC in Ceylon and North Africa.
History note
Cataloguer KM
History note
Catalogue date 2006-03-06