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Description
Ms. Cook talks about her friend and the rough time she had when she was captured in Hong Kong.
Nora B. Cook
Nora Cook was born in Ops Township (outside of Lindsay), Ontario. She graduated from nursing school and went on to enroll in the army as a nurse who endured a very long trip to England. She talks about the training in England, and how rigorous it was; but also how happy the nurses were to have had it, as they wouldn't have been able to handle the working conditions in France if they had not been so well prepared.
Transcript
Well Kay was, I'm not sure what army she, I think the 15th Canadian army and they, I'm don't, I'm not too sure of the whole story but it was someplace around here, and there was about four of them captured and taken by the Japanese and ah I think she was a prisoner for almost two years and it was just, just hell all beyond, you know. She just suffered everything they just put them through everything possible. Now I think, she never said it, but I'm sure she was raped also cause she was never married and she never talks about it but she told me about the, them lining up the mothers and the kids in front so I'm sure that they probably raped the nurses too. Well she told, the only thing, but she didn't talk about it a lot and I didn't know her before I met her here but you know I became quite friendly with her. And but she told me about this, they'd get the, all the Japanese, they treated them rotten and the food was awful, everything, they just didn't do anything for them at all.