How Will They Cope?
Heroes Remember
How Will They Cope?
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Description
Many soldiers had to return to Canada after suffering life altering injuries.
Kathleen Jean MacAulay
Ms. MacAulay was born in Meadowville, Nova Scotia on January 2, 1917. She attended school in Meadowville in a one room school for grades 1 - 10. Then she went to nearby Stellarton for grade 11 and New Glasgow for grade 12. After attending Maritime Business College for a year, she left and went to Halifax to train as a nurse at the Victoria General Hospital. Ms. MacAulay graduated as a nurse in 1941 and enlisted to go overseas. Ms. MacAulay made the four day voyage on the Queen Elizabeth and landed in Scotland. Shortly after arriving, she was sent to Bramshott where she worked in the operating room and in the ward from Oct. ‘43 to July ‘44. From there, she went to Whitby for a short period before heading over to Normandy. Ms. MacAulay ended up in Germany at the end of the war and was there for part of the occupation. She met her husband, a Canadian soldier, in Germany and was married to him in Jan. ‘46. She returned to Canada aboard HMS Rodney in June of ‘46.
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- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 2:16
- Person Interviewed:
- Kathleen Jean MacAulay
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Branch:
- Army
- Rank:
- Nursing Officer
- Occupation:
- Nursing Sister
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