Video Gallery

Video Gallery

Different Countries, Different Lifestyle!

Mr. Floyd explains the differences he felt between the attitudes and culture of Egypt and Lebanon.

Border Control with Escort Through Israel

Mr. Floyd speaks about traveling between Beirut and Lebanon.

Roles and Responsibilities

Mr. Floyd explains his role as F&E Clerk, (Furnitures and Effects) In-Canada service, before going overseas.

Ms. Drean describes seeing, while in Barneveld, Dutch collaborators being marched off to what she felt was to be their execution. She also talks about having female collaborators, whose heads had been shaved, as assistants, and expresses some empathy for these young women.

Pigeonholing

Ms. Drean describes how she had been taught a technique at nursing school to deal with the stresses of nursing, called pigeonholing. This technique taught her to compartmentalize her thoughts so that she could forget the stresses of nursing while on her free time.

Dutch charity and a revelation

Ms. Drean describes being billeted with a Dutch family and always finding a glass of wine in her room after a long day's work. Her host family then shows her a secret room used to shelter escaping airmen who had been shot down.

The Field Surgical Unit at Saint-Omer

Ms. Drean describes the role of the Field Surgical Unit in Saint-Omer, France, its staffing complement, and what her specific duties were.

Physical and mental preparation

Ms. Drean discusses having to participate in regular parade drill as physical preparation for deployment, and despite having had no hands on contact with the war wounded as yet, feeling ready to do her job well.