Camaraderie Amongst the Soldiers

Heroes Remember

Camaraderie Amongst the Soldiers

Transcript

At this point I just have to remark again on the, on the... they’re all heroes, camaraderie and the sense of humour. The minute the boys got feeling stable at all somehow that sense of humour came and they’d look at the fellow next door and say, “Well, I’m glad I haven’t got what you got.” Maybe ones without a leg or the other, the next boy is without a hand, and the next boy’s got shrapnel all over him. They seemed to what, make the best, that sounds funny, make the best of their wounds, and the first, once they got on their feet they’d come right to us and say, “What can we do to help?” I really think war brings out maybe the worst but it brings out the best is people.

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Mrs. Flynn expresses her deep emotion and respect for the wounded soldiers and how they maintained a great sense of humour in times of despair.

Pauline Flynn

Mrs. Pauline Flynn was born in Port Elgin, Ontario January 23, 1920. Her father was a Canadian Railway Station Master and her mother a school teacher. There are three brothers in her family, she being the only girl. She attended nursing school and in 1938 graduated from Toronto Western. Mrs. Flynn, always having a sense of adventure, decided to join the military. She served as a nursing sister and held the rank of officer. To this day, she holds great pride for the history of the nursing sisters and pride of the blue uniform. After discharge from the service, Mrs. Flynn married and continued to nurse while raising a family in Ottawa. Today, she spends a great deal of her free time volunteering and is very proud of her military connections with other local nursing sisters who served during the same period of time. She is a great spokesperson for the Nursing Sister Association and represents her comrades during many of the Remembrance Day Events in our capital city, Ottawa, Canada.

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