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British civilian nurse with Civil Nursing Reserve at Winterton Emergency Hospital in GB, 1944-1945
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REEL 1 Background in Darlington and Newcastle, GB, 1925-1939: family; education; employment. Aspects of period as civilian in Darlington and Newcastle, 1939-1943: memories of outbreak of Second World War, 9/1939; move to Newcastle and employment; return to Darlington; air raids; return to Newcastle. Aspects of nursing training at Middlesborough General Hospital in GB, 1943-1944: reasons for volunteering to nurse; training; discipline; uniform; duties as probationary nurse; shift work; decision to join Civil Nursing Reserve; wards worked on. Recollections of period as nurse with Civil Nursing Reserve at Winterton Emergency Hospital in GB, 6/1944-8/1945: role as emergency hospital; accommodation and uniform.
REEL 2 Continues: relations with fellow nurses; arrival at hospital; relations between nurses and wounded troops; duties; physical and psychological condition of wounded; ward duties; presence of German wounded in hospital; segregation of German and British patients; arrival of German women to nurse German patients; social activities and provision of entertainment by ENSA; memories of German patients; nursing former POWs from Japanese captivity; duties assisting in operating theatre; end of Second World War.