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Canadian and English hospital service
After her husband had been mortally wounded at Ortona, and following his death Ms. Smith-Adamson enlists in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps as an operating room nurse. She serves in military hospitals in Toronto and Camp Borden, and later in a convalescent hospital in England. Her request for a transfer to the continent is granted.
To #1 Casualty Clearing Station
Ms. Smith-Adamson describes arriving in Njimegen only to find that her documents and kit are missing. A doctor acquaintance arranges for her to join #1 Casualty Clearing Station in Sogol, Germany where she remains with the Army of Occupation for a year.
Treating Field Marshall Montgomery
Ms. Smith-Adamson describes being the only nurse at her hospital denied an opportunity to see Field Marshall Montgomery during his visit to Germany. Ironically, his aircraft crashes and he arrives at her hospital for x-rays and a checkup. She is his nurse while he is there.
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