Hospital Area is Bombed
Heroes Remember
Transcript
I, I might as well be frank about it, because the first time it
came in the day time and it was pretty sharp and the fighters
were up. And there were two or three of us on ward and I went
into the, into the room were the, where we did our charts and
things and I literally put my legs around the leg of the desk
because I was so shaky. But that passed and the things I didn't
like over there were... Say I went to London for a weekend.
Coming back on a train, if there, if they had an air raid the
train would stop and the fighters would be up and you'd be
sitting on this darkened train and it used to scare the life
out of me. But after awhile you got used to the bombs.
That and in Marshton Green, they came at 6 o'clock at the...
Fighters came over, the German fighters came over at 6 o'clock
every night. Every night, they never missed and... Then they
used to fight out in the fields and we were in, our hospital was
in the field.
Interviewer: And they were fighting right outside your hospital?
Well not, close enough. But, and I think that's how the, the
one German lost his. He was shot down. They brought him into
the ward and, he was the one we had the difficulty with because
he would, he was so brave, you know. And of course he lost two
toes and the next night we were able to put him under the,
when we had another raid, put him under the bed and he was quite
happy to be there. So he gradually became friendly.
Description
Ms. Moll was asked for her reaction to the first bombing of the area of the hospital at which she was stationed, near Birmingham, England. She also relates the story of her recollections of a German prisoner of war who was a patient at the hospital in Marsden Green.
Patricia Moll
Patricia Moll was born in Ottawa, Ontario on August 21, 1912. She received her schooling in Ottawa. On finishing high school, she moved to Montreal where she received nursing training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. After her formal training was finished, she went to work on the nursing staff at the Alexandria Hospital in Montreal. Ms. Moll enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1940 and joined the staff at #1 Canadian General Hospital.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 02:16
- Person Interviewed:
- Patricia Moll
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Branch:
- Army
- Occupation:
- Nursing Sister
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