Dieppe Landing Patients

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Dieppe Landing Patients

Transcript

Dieppe was quite something. They landed, and their clothes, you know, and the uniforms and the Matron used to tell a story about the chap that she was undressing and she, everybody helped, you know, because when you have an influx of all these patients coming in, you're so busy it doesn't matter. You can grab anything. I even saw the surgeon scrubbing the walk, mopping the floor because there was so much goo and blood and everything on it. And, she took off his trousers and said, "I'll just," he was conscious, and said, "I'll just throw these under the bed." And he said, "No, no, sister don't do that. My grenades are in the pocket." So she said, "Alright I won't do that, I'll just, forget it". Interviewer: So you were at (inaudible) during the Dieppe raid, you were still there? Umhmm Interviewer: And that was quite a hectic time, wasn't it? We did 95 operations in, oh, have the figures down, but I have forgotten the last figure. Ninety-five and doesn't matter anyhow. Interviewer: In just a short period of time. Yes! Actually we broke the record for hospitals, for the short period of time that we did the operation.

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Ms. Moll thinks back to the Dieppe landing and the very large number of patients that sent to her hospital.

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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