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Her interesting ts memoir with few dates (44pp) recording her experiences as a Welsh student nurse in the UK (September 1939 – April 1944) and as an Army Nursing Sister with the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in the UK, North Africa, India and Germany (April 1944 - January 1947), including her evacuation as a student nurse from University College Hospital in London to a mansion, Ashridge, in Hertfordshire (September 1939 – 1942); studying midwifery at the Women's Hospital in Wolverhampton (1942); the private patients' wing of UCH, London (1942 – April 1944); being called up into the QAIMNS (April 1944) and service as an Army Nursing Sister with a Military Hospital near Shaftesbury in Dorset (May 1944 - June 1944); the voyage by troopship, HMT ARUNDEL CASTLE, from Gourock to Algiers, Algeria (June 1944); active service with the 94th British Military Hospital in Algiers (no dates); disbandment of her hospital and her return to first Brussels, Hamburg and then Netley Hospital, Southampton while waiting for a posting to the Far East (?May 1945 – September 1945); the voyage in the HMT WINCHESTER CASTLE from Southampton via the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal to Bombay, India (September 1945); serving at an Indian Military Hospital in Poona (September 1945) and then a British Military Hospital at Lucknow (no dates); a Military Hospital in Hanover, Germany (no dates); her demobilisation (January 1947); and commenting on her duties and routine, nurse training, the staff, the treatment of patients including German and Italian prisoners of war, the diseases suffered, the poor pay, the conditions, the billets, life on a ward, relations with male nurses, and off duty entertainment; the Blitz; an outbreak of bubonic plague in Algiers; celebrating Christmas; life in India; and mentioning Sir Archibald McIndoe. Also included is her ts account (4pp) of her voyage by troopship, HMT ARUNDEL CASTLE, from Gourock on the Clyde to Algiers, Algeria (June 1944) and her active service with the 94th British Military Hospital in Algiers (no dates).
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Her interesting ts memoir with few dates (44pp) recording her experiences as a Welsh student nurse in the UK (September 1939 – April 1944) and as an Army Nursing Sister with the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) in the UK, North Africa, India and Germany (April 1944 - January 1947), including her evacuation as a student nurse from University College Hospital in London to a mansion, Ashridge, in Hertfordshire (September 1939 – 1942); studying midwifery at the Women's Hospital in Wolverhampton (1942); the private patients' wing of UCH, London (1942 – April 1944); being called up into the QAIMNS (April 1944) and service as an Army Nursing Sister with a Military Hospital near Shaftesbury in Dorset (May 1944 - June 1944); the voyage by troopship, HMT ARUNDEL CASTLE, from Gourock to Algiers, Algeria (June 1944); active service with the 94th British Military Hospital in Algiers (no dates); disbandment of her hospital and her return to first Brussels, Hamburg and then Netley Hospital, Southampton while waiting for a posting to the Far East (?May 1945 – September 1945); the voyage in the HMT WINCHESTER CASTLE from Southampton via the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal to Bombay, India (September 1945); serving at an Indian Military Hospital in Poona (September 1945) and then a British Military Hospital at Lucknow (no dates); a Military Hospital in Hanover, Germany (no dates); her demobilisation (January 1947); and commenting on her duties and routine, nurse training, the staff, the treatment of patients including German and Italian prisoners of war, the diseases suffered, the poor pay, the conditions, the billets, life on a ward, relations with male nurses, and off duty entertainment; the Blitz; an outbreak of bubonic plague in Algiers; celebrating Christmas; life in India; and mentioning Sir Archibald McIndoe. Also included is her ts account (4pp) of her voyage by troopship, HMT ARUNDEL CASTLE, from Gourock on the Clyde to Algiers, Algeria (June 1944) and her active service with the 94th British Military Hospital in Algiers (no dates).
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