Nursing the Wounded

Heroes Remember

Nursing the Wounded

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Well some of them were in casts for months,

like body casts,like all the way down and

very hard. Well, we had lots of occupational

therapy and then of course you had your regular

therapy where they had to go down to different

rooms and do their exercises, the ones that

could because they, a lot of them were either

in wheelchairs or crutches or whatever

on these wards till they got better and it took,

would take a long time you know for them to

recuperate. And at that time we had some of

the patients, some of the boys come back from

Hong Kong on another ward that were the

Hong Kong prisoners and I worked with them

for a little while and it was sad some of their

stories, really. I became very close to a Bob

McGinn from Fredericton, I often wonder if he

is still living. He was a very nice chap that I had

met in Sussex at the hospital and he just seemed

to take a liking to me and we'd go down to the

show, a small theatre that was in Sussex every

now and then, you know. Some of them were

so thin. Of course they didn't have that much food

or anything when they were in the, in the prisons.

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Mrs. Butler talks about her patients and the toll that war had taken on so many of them.

Nancy Butler

Mrs. Butler was born in Ayr, Scotland on April 19, 1926. She did her basic training as a nursing orderly in Kitchener, Ontario. From there she went on to the St. James Military Hospital in Saint John and in 1945 she was sent to the Sussex Military Hospital where she tended to some of the most seriously injured men.

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