Description
Ms. Carter describes treating German POWs at her field hospital, and being assisted very ably by a German prisoner.
Doris Carter
Doris Carter was born in Birkenhead, England on June 9, 1910. Her family emigrated to Woodstock, New Brunswick and in 1932 she enrolled in Nursing at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Ms. Carter graduated in 1935, and was recruited to a wartime surgical team, prior to the war's onset. On November 30, 1940 she went overseas with #1 Military Hospital to nurse civilians injured in the bombings of Coventry and Birmingham. Ms. Carter was then sent to the Mediterranean with #5 Military Hospital. She served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Northwestern Europe. After the war, Ms. Carter pursued a career in Public Health Nursing.
Transcript
We moved, and we moved by big troop carriers to Rome. And we had the fascist officers training school for a hospital. We had a lot of German prisoners of war that were wounded and they were in the courtyard but they had their own orderlies and we were each given a medical orderly, German, and I was given one that I think must have been a medical student but I had some German but not enough to really, and he cried when he left because I'd been so good to him. He was very good, he looked after my patients very well. My he was a great help Then I was moved on to across to, just across the courtyard and two floors up to amputation, where they all had at least one leg amputated or two. They were all so young and they'd cry over their lost legs, you know.