Al Capone's Chauffeur

Heroes Remember

Al Capone's Chauffeur

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The orderly room called me. They had little telephones that you wound up and he said there's an ambulance driver here that says he knows that there's a Royal Victoria Hospital nurse here and he'd like to see her. And he came over and sure I knew him because he worked at the Vic and he used to, he was an Al Capone man and when Montreal was hit when Capone went to Montreal, he was shot, this fellow, and he was left behind in hospital and he stayed with the Vic hospital as an ambulance driver. And I knew him because he used to go out on our maternity cases and take us out on the maternity cases from the map.

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Ms. Carter describes being looked up by an ambulance driver from the Royal Victoria Hospital with whom she had worked before the war. He had been Al Capone's driver.

Doris Carter

Doris Carter was born in Birkenhead, England on June 9, 1910. Her family emigrated to Woodstock, New Brunswick and in 1932 she enrolled in Nursing at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Ms. Carter graduated in 1935, and was recruited to a wartime surgical team, prior to the war's onset. On November 30, 1940 she went overseas with #1 Military Hospital to nurse civilians injured in the bombings of Coventry and Birmingham. Ms. Carter was then sent to the Mediterranean with #5 Military Hospital. She served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Northwestern Europe. After the war, Ms. Carter pursued a career in Public Health Nursing.

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