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DIARY OF A
OF A BRITISH NURSE
my
orders
Sept. 11. Got morning to report at C-on Wednes- day. Have had a busy day getting ready and to-morrow shall say good- bye to all my friends. We are
This is the diary of a
New
who
allowed to take a trunk, a suitcase Zealand Army Nursing Sister
and
ад a handbag. Lucky I had finished, my last private case. How glad I arn that I came to England last March and that I stayed on. Now that it has come I would have joined up at home, anyway. But being here saves Do much time.
went to France immediately after war was declared and was one of the
Sent, 13. Reported at this last to leave.
morning and was sent on to A- Its the thirteenth. I wonder if it will be lucky for me. Everybody is. very kind and everything is done for
She tells the war
experiences of herself and
our comfort. I like the look of the Australian friend.
other sisters in our unit. They are
of mixed ages-from twenties up to
57-80 of us in the unit. Some have to tell them at home when I get back necessary.
an
Those who will recover
and others did knitting. We ate chocolates or biscuits or anything we
happened to have and once or twice
somebody ventured up into the kit- chen immediately above us and made. ready daylight when the "all clear"
some ten. It was 4 o'clock and si-
went.
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alay 20. All day to-day they kept hombing. bombing, coming over, bombing. But they made no attempt on the hospital and it was quite an cosy mark. It was the harbour they were after. They came over so often that we stopped running down into the cellar and just kept on with our work. Otherwise we would never have got anything done. Matron made the rule that as many as could be spared should shelter. Those necessary for
carrying on should stay up their own private nursing homes to go on active service. The to New Zealand. Have made friends in 7 days we keep. Those who won't and do the work. When F. and older ones were on active service in with a girl from Queensland, Found we send off at once to "Billy came off duly this evening we were taken by coach to sleep at No. 3 a little the last war and some of them have put we came over in the same boat If they are too ill to be moved then all told to get our handbags and were decorations, I wonder what is ahead. and occupied the name cabin but that we keep them until they have re- canvas hospital at Offranville a
come a trip taler.
covered enough to travel.
village a couple of miles away. In two days, they say, we are em.
Sept. 22. Ilave had a week of do-
May 10. We've been getting casu- May 21. We slept out last night barking.
ing nothing, but to-day started in on alties now for several days and the and got a good rest. which we need-
theatre Sept. 15. I watched the shorts of the job: We're a marvellously happy operating
marvellous, ed. Thla morning early we England fade to-day and wondered unit and matron is
(ime to-day. They didn't drop told to pack our suitcases in 10 min- what experiences I shall have before going to make up for last week in a planes came over for the Arst back to No. 1. At 10 o'clock were 1 see them again. We arrived safely the next few days. The roulette bombs but we were told they mined utes and be ready to evacuate. We in Dieppe, where we are to be al- tables and other heavy furniture have the harbour, Our own men started had to leave our trunks behind. The tached to No. 1. Base Hospital. Were been removed from the Casino but sweeping up the mines and when Nazis were stili bombing at inter- put into
emergency billets, which be
we've got to do all the rest. There they exploded them the noise was vals. At the station one train was With Tom- bit squashed, Officer apolo- are to be 7 wards with 100 beds. terrifle. I happened to be off duty loaded with wounded. were a
we were put on another, but we station until three o'clock in the even moved. POCKET CARTOON afternoon before we
Then, when we dit start, we only got about two miles and stopped again at a junction.
wonderful. We're
is
came
gised and sald we should have belter We've scrubbed and cleaned 10-day at my billet on the front and co waited on the crowded' train on the
соп-
quarters of soon as possible.
Sept. 16. The Casino is to be our hospital and will have to be verted. But we cannot start to-day because we are waiting for supplies, So we went round the town looking at things. What a lot I shall have
How Everyone Can Help
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Wednesday, July 31, 1940.
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or
army so well
until we're all tired out it's sill all chaos but we'll have it in some sort of working order in no time. When it's full, we shall be busy.
Sept. 30. The diary has had to go too much to do. Some portitions have been put up and a lot of paint-
done. It's beginning to get the real hospitni look. The blacking out was difficult, but it's finished now. We've inspected the cellar which is marked down as our refuge in case of air raids. So for no trouble of that kind. There's no hot water laid on and no gas. We have to boll it all on primus oll stoves. An emer- gency operating theatre has been got ready.
Oct. 9. We've settled down now to a routine. No wounded yet, but The engineers have some stelt cases, fixed up hot water in the "theatre", but there's still none in the wards. They're going to build 08 new operating theatre. Supplies for it
promote wide-will be brought from London, and
advertised in advance as to
spread terror
of it before
it arrived, but
as whistling bombs and diving planes, whose devastation was `us much mental as physical.
phase. This form of attack is its actual approach was marked as calculated and malicious as by such fear-producing devices that of the bombers and para- chutists, but is not limited to the particular nation against which armies are being sent. Americans for example could Instead, it is directed at all help not only the Allies but nations. including neutrals, and themselves by refusing to accept therefore can and should be the propaganda of German invin- cibility.. German weaknesses resisted by all nations.
sims at the Propaganda
naturally are not publicized in demoralization of actual
the German press and broad- Nazi of enemies -potential
secks-to-casts, but_are_becoming known bring this about by arousing increasingly to military men. matter disunity, apathy, fear, or panic. Each Nazi device, no There have been many evidences how novel, has its limitations As the from the countries invaded by and vulnerable points. Germany in the past year that propaganda phase of German demoralization of this sort con- aggression is repelled by both tributed to the amazing Nazi neutrals and belligerents, the Swarms of tunks, air is cleared for calmer, more planes, and guns do not tell the realistic analyses of German whole story of these battles, military methods, and for their
the mechanized speedier overthrow. Not only was
totalitarianism.
guccesses.
We
have the
Planes
DEFIANT
BEAUFORT
The Air Ministry revealed that new this advantage over the single-scat types of British aircraft fighter fighter: in addition on an unknown and a bomber-had been in action for number of machine-guns firing for- rard, they have also a power-operated the first time over Holland.
Without doubt these new types gun turret firing aft. In short, there- were used in such numbers and with fore the Dellant may be likened to confidence and ef- a Hurricane with a sting in its tall, such a display of con
As for 11:0 new bomber-the Belenes as to surprise the enemy. It
Beaufort, which attacked was known, of course, at the in- Bristol
was ning of the war, that Britain hid the Waalhaven airport this, 100.
Boulton and Paul Defant talked about before the war but has action single-engine two-seater fighter in not hitherto been heard of In
a development of the famous production but nos until yesterday's It account of how three Deflants shot Blenhelm twin-engined bomber, but far better down a Junkers 88 on their first en- is faster and probably counter was anything heard of them armed. To distinguish it from the Blenheim note the thickset appear- in action,
In many ways they appear to re-ance of the fuselage forrard, which semble the Hurricane, for although terminates, midships, in the power-
* operated gun-turret, they are stul on the "Secret List, their general outline is familiar, and
new
As for speeds, it is safe to assume
It is also known that they are that both these new types do "well of them. powered by the famous 1,030 h.p. over 300 mph." Nelther
is built for sheer speed
Rolls Royco Merlin engines as used however,
in the majority of; Britain's' single- alone.
seat Bahtera. They have, however,
G. E.
We
they say have some time
they are to be first class.
marvellous billets. Moved into one of the hotels
on the "front." Everything
**Waltert Musi you worry mo when I'm digging for victory?"
ANTENNEN
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We didn't understand why, but it was because they were bombing again. Presently we saw them bomb the hospital train with the wounded aboard which was behind waiting to be embarked for England. And the Hospital Ship in the harbour was hit. No case of accident or mistaken iden tity
either. The bomb went right down the funnel. The only food we had were iron rations-bully beef and biscuits. Sometimes we man- aged to get a drink of water. Or one of the boys would go off and come back with lemonade. We were all very cheerful and kept our spirits up To
spite of the weary waiting.
Mars late got to Le May 22. We this evening and will have to wait' here to retrain, We have travelled about 100 miles and it has taken, us over 28 hours. The chaos is terrible. Worst thing of all is the refugees. We left them behind at Dieppe, We them all the way as we travelled south and we find this town choked with them too. They have no food. have had no rest for days and are constantly being bombed machine-gunned.
and
We have
not had a wash since had 10 yesterday morning. Have
is done for our com- fort. Our day is-up at 6.30, break- fast 7. When we go across to the hospital we have to wear our tin huls and have the gas masks at the alert. It's about a quarter-of-a-mile walk. We're a very happy unit. Some of us lunch at 12, come on again and work til 5,
see the whole thing. But the girls clean up our faces as best we can The others lunch at 1, are off duly on duty didn't know what it was and with cold cream. You get so smutty until 3,
3, and then work until 8 when got an awful scare. To-night they in the trains. No hope of a wash We have been put the night staff comes on. Last week started, bombing in real earnest, at night, either. we got a gos ring in each ward, but First alarm was at 7.30. We pulled to sicep in an office. The best I can hard upright chair. there is still no hot water. Rows all the beds into the safest places we manage is a and rows of beds new, where a few could find. Drew the heavy black This is Wednesday and we've only months ago people were playing out curtains across the windows and had one night's reasonable rest since
stop Dying Saturday. roulette. The theatre where audi- pinned them down to ences used to sit und laten to enter- glass.
May 21, We spent nearly 24 hours tainments is now fult of beds. Get-
and Everybody who could be spared in Le Mans waiting for a train. Got ting it all ready we seemed to make
the cellor. went to shelter in
A away yesterday at 6.30 p.m., beas. .up.
p_hundreds of b
skeleton statt-stayed-on-duty--with-arrived at La Baule this morning at It took us all that time to go April 2. No. fighting yet, but the bed cases. The walking cases 11.
miles or 40. Anyway they've built us our new operating came down with us. That lusted for about 120
complete. theatre and it's magnificent. The half an hour but punctually at 10 we're here. The unit is equipment splendid, everything we o'clock they came over again. They We've been given until Monday to not USA it. the hospital here. Everybody has can possibly want. By the end of were trying to bomb the harbour so rest, then we start work again at the month we'll have hot water in that our ships could all the wards. There are five other Down we went again Into the cellar stood up to the strain of the last 6 hospitals here. The Hotel Metropole and this time we stayed there. Wave days very well. It nearly broke our has been converted-5 large wards after wave came over. The worst hearts, though, to say good-bye to on 5 floors and there are four other was the whistling noise as they came the beautiful hospital we had helped hospitals under canvas outside the down-the thud and the explosion to make in Dieppe.
June 13. We've been here three own. The scheme is that we take weren't so bad. We had brought the wounded as they come in by pillows and blankets down with us weeks all but a day. Three weeks to get some of respite from bombing bus to-day convoy, clean them up and get them and some of us tried to bed, dress wounds, operate when sleep. Some brought their sewing Turn to Page 7, Fifth Column
Speaking of FUNNY SIDE UP
Etiquette
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
was the author of one of the world's greatest books on etiquette.
In certain parts of Persia gentle- men follow the rule of getting down on their knees and kissing the shoes of a lady, upon introduc- tion to her.
When a gentleman is walking with two ladies he assumes a' posi- tion on the outside-as if he were walking with, only one,
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In Quito, Ecuador women tip 'their hats to men.
When a Chinese does not - wish to have a coller remain as a dinner guest he says "won't you stay with me, please?" That serves as a hint to the visitor that his presence is not desired.
According to a survey taken by Columbia University a majority of male escorts walk in the
when wrong. position panying a lady-between them and the windows of the shops.
accom-
In Labrador n mon passing a neighbour's house must stop for a snack of brend and tea or he will be breaking an important rule of otiquette.
A new organisation in Sydney, NS.W., ta known as the "Associa tion for the Prevention of Taking It believea Of Hats in Elevators."
"It's funny.
By Abner Dean
THE SWINGER
AND THEIR MIXED-UP
•MELODIES
ABNER DEAN
I can dance this way`all night and my foet ́
nover got tired!""""
that removing hate tends toward Unnecessary Airtatious gestures, promotes class distinction because- the courtesy is not shown to female
on
alovator operators, it's hard men's hats and besides it's em” barrassing to bald headed gentle-
men.