Toughening up

We were there for a few months and then there was a big hospital down in Horley, which was about down south and we went down there and it was a beautiful big hospital and we worked there for about a year and a half, two years we worked there and we didn’t have any real war experiences, yet I must say I enjoyed it so much I almost forgot there was a war until we started drilling and nurses knew no more about left, right, left, right or right turn or left turn, they were just, women are terrible military people like that, you know. And he would roar at us you know, he’d say, “No, you’re out of step!” And we’d start all over again. And we marched a long way and they were trying to build us up then we started carrying packs on our backs, just a little bit, not very heavy. And then before we knew it, I think this was right, we went North of England, we left the hospital and we went up to train a bit more, a bit harder training, just physical training, not nursing training.