| Description | Master and Matron of County Hospital, Ormskirk, Lancashire 1937 – 1945. Effect of World War II – military hospitals, bombing raids, on Poor Law Institution.
Between 1937 and 1945 he worked in a milary hospital. This had 252 beds for military personnel, as well as non-military. He recalls how he was never short of food as rations for the soldiers were far in excess to those for a civilian, so many non-military patients also benefitted.
He recounts experiences of building an air raid shelter and the horrific experiences of air raids, when he would have to leave his family in the shelter and be on duty at the hospital. One night a bomb was dropped that landed only 30 yards from his house. |