| Description | Born in India, trained as a nurse in London. Qualified 1938. Joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. She was a
theatre sister.Experiences of a nurse in World War II. She worked on
hospital ships, in Middle East, in Italy with Eighth Army, and in Post-War Germany.
She qualified a year before War broke out, and initially worked as a theatre sister at Millbank Military Hospital before going to France and working in casualty clearing stations, then joining hospital ships and going to Egypt. She describes medical procedures, such as removing a live shell from a Prisoner of War's heart muscle and, in 1944, was a member of one of the first units to use penicillin.
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