Realization for being at War

Heroes Remember

Realization for being at War

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We landed in Greenwich, Scotland and they were, ladies I guess from the church, there hot scones and tea, I always remember that And then of course we were hustled down to Southern England and I was at No. 9 Horsham and I do remember when we got farther farther south I suddenly realized there was a war on and saw the devastation and then passing through London was a terrible experience because the barrage balloons were still up for the bombers, you know. The city air was full of barrage balloons and we suddenly realized we were in a different world.

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Mrs. Flynn describes her arrival in Southern England, seeing the barrage balloons and devastation around her.

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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