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Description
Ms. Michielin explains why she was not allowed to be sent overseas, and was instead discharged from the service.
Transcription
Interviewer: So a young women, from Alberta, gets to go overseas.
I didn't go overseas, no.
Interviewer: No. Why not?
Because 5 of us girls had reactions to either the shots or the gas that we were, we had to go through. The preliminaries of going overseas.
Interviewer: And what happened to you?
It was my eyes, it was my eyes that went, and naturally in secretarial work you have to have pretty good vision.
Interviewer: Can you tell us about that Anne?
Just that my eyes were watering a lot and when I went to the medical doctor they decided I deserved to be booted out and that, so I was. I received my discharge and I think it was the 7th of July 1944. That was heartbreaking for me.
Interviewer: Why so?
Because I enjoyed my work and I enjoyed the people I was with.
I didn't go overseas, no.
Interviewer: No. Why not?
Because 5 of us girls had reactions to either the shots or the gas that we were, we had to go through. The preliminaries of going overseas.
Interviewer: And what happened to you?
It was my eyes, it was my eyes that went, and naturally in secretarial work you have to have pretty good vision.
Interviewer: Can you tell us about that Anne?
Just that my eyes were watering a lot and when I went to the medical doctor they decided I deserved to be booted out and that, so I was. I received my discharge and I think it was the 7th of July 1944. That was heartbreaking for me.
Interviewer: Why so?
Because I enjoyed my work and I enjoyed the people I was with.
Catégories
Deemed Medically Unfit
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
Second World War
Emplacement géographique
Canada
Personne interviewée
Anne Michielin
Branche
Army
Occupation
Records Clerk
Durée
01:16