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It’ll All Work Out In The End.
Mr. Clark describes his eventual selection for medical service aboard the hospital ship ‘Lady Nelson’.
You Had to Prove You’re one of Them.
Mr. Clark describes integrating into an established crew on the ‘Lady Nelson’, and describes the informality among the officers and crew.
He brought me down an old CNR bun.
Mr. Clark gives his impressions of his early life and labours aboard the ‘Lady Nelson’.
It made you realize how helpless someone could be.
Mr. Clark talks about looking after wartime amputees.
There’s an awful difference in your captains.
Mr. Clark compares the rough seas navigation style of the two captains who commanded the ‘Lady Nelson’.
They didn’t have penicillin at that time.
Mr. Clark compares wounds he saw to more severe ones earlier in the war. He describes nature’s antibiotic - maggots.
It was a good bunch of boys.
Mr. Clark discusses some good and bad aspects of life at sea.
There wasn’t a service person living on their street
Mr. Clark describes being in Halifax when the war ended, and gives some details of and insight into the subsequent Halifax riot.
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