Hospital Area is Bombed

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Hospital Area is Bombed

Transcript

I, I might as well be frank about it, because the first time it came in the day time and it was pretty sharp and the fighters were up. And there were two or three of us on ward and I went into the, into the room were the, where we did our charts and things and I literally put my legs around the leg of the desk because I was so shaky. But that passed and the things I didn't like over there were... Say I went to London for a weekend. Coming back on a train, if there, if they had an air raid the train would stop and the fighters would be up and you'd be sitting on this darkened train and it used to scare the life out of me. But after awhile you got used to the bombs. That and in Marshton Green, they came at 6 o'clock at the... Fighters came over, the German fighters came over at 6 o'clock every night. Every night, they never missed and... Then they used to fight out in the fields and we were in, our hospital was in the field. Interviewer: And they were fighting right outside your hospital? Well not, close enough. But, and I think that's how the, the one German lost his. He was shot down. They brought him into the ward and, he was the one we had the difficulty with because he would, he was so brave, you know. And of course he lost two toes and the next night we were able to put him under the, when we had another raid, put him under the bed and he was quite happy to be there. So he gradually became friendly.

Description

Ms. Moll was asked for her reaction to the first bombing of the area of the hospital at which she was stationed, near Birmingham, England. She also relates the story of her recollections of a German prisoner of war who was a patient at the hospital in Marsden Green.

Patricia Moll

Patricia Moll was born in Ottawa, Ontario on August 21, 1912. She received her schooling in Ottawa. On finishing high school, she moved to Montreal where she received nursing training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. After her formal training was finished, she went to work on the nursing staff at the Alexandria Hospital in Montreal. Ms. Moll enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1940 and joined the staff at #1 Canadian General Hospital.

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