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#24 Hospital at Horley
#24 Hospital in Horley, England. This was a much larger facility which dealt with soldiers wounded in battle. Ms. Orford describes the types of injuries she saw, and praises her patients, many of whom helped the nursing staff if they were able.
#9 Hospital at Horsham
Ms. Orford discusses the conversion of an alms house into #9 Hospital in Horsham, England. She describes the situation there as very busy, and well managed despite a lack of equipment.
Liverpool to Bramshott
Ms. Orford describes her experiences traveling from Liverpool to the manning depot at Bramshot, including experiencing a V-bomb attack at Waterloo Station in London.
A working passage
Ms. Orford describes being asked to treat patients aboard the HMCS Lady Nelson. She treats a variety of injuries, but remembers in particular a severely crippled polio patient.
Sailing on the HMCS Lady Nelson
Ms. Orford describes the protocol for women sailing overseas, and describes her trip to England aboard the first Canadian hospital ship, HMCS Lady Nelson.
Photos and correspondence
Ms. Orford describes how the military and media often photographed and printed pictures of events in her rehab center. She also describes being contacted by a woman who wrote to every service person she saw in the newspaper.
First posting
Ms. Orford describes her first posting to the Oakville Casualty Retraining Center, where she provided physiotherapy to soldiers injured at neighboring training camps.
Railway Battalion in France
Mr. Martin briefly describes how the allies narrow gauge railway tracks were laid, and how numerous shell holes limited the range of the lines.
First Taste of Freedom
Mr. Billson describes arriving in Manila, being immunized by Australian nurses at an American hospital, and being given two hundred dollars American.
A-Bomb Aftermath
Mr. Billson describes viewing the devastation after the bombing of Nagasaki. The only intact things he sees are few porcelain toilets. He also describes how the blast had rolled all the sod up the surrounding hills.
A Dangerous Food Drop
Mr. Billson describes a terrible irony of being liberated. Two POWs are killed when pallets parachuted in by the Americans strike them.
The War Ends
Mr. Billson discusses how work in the mine suddenly ended, signaling Japanese capitulation, and how the guards were all gone the following day.
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