Christmas In Nijmegen
Heroes Remembers - Liberation of the Netherlands
Christmas In Nijmegen
Transcript
See, Nijmegen and Mook were a connecting point. The people that
were on duty were in Mook, facing a small group of Germans
further down, and the others were on leave in Nijmegen, so to
speak. They were so close together, twenty five miles or so
between, maybe fifteen. My regimental aid post was in a house
with...it had been a telephone exchange for the town and also had
a pump organ. This was the room I used as my operating room,
if you like calling it an operating room. The house was in good
shape. It had a roof. And, I remember it had a room off the main
room which served as a bedroom. The Padre and I each used that
room. We had a bed on each side. It was approaching Christmas
and we were getting Christmas parcels with cake in them, and the
mice were having a field day. The mice were running up and down
the walls, under the, the paper was glued to burlap, which was
in turn fastened to the wall and the mice were in behind the
burlap running up and down, and we were using our boots...
And so, we were preparing for Christmas and we held our Christmas
celebrations in Nijmegen. The companies that were not on duty had
their Christmas celebrations and then they went down and relieved
the others and they came up, and it was a wonderful Christmas.
Things were going well, obviously, we were winning the war.
Description
Dr. Theal describes Christmas celebrations in Nijmegen, Holland
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 2:33
- Person Interviewed:
- Dr. Gordon Irvine Theal
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- Holland/Netherlands
- Battle/Campaign:
- Liberation of the Netherlands
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Rank:
- Captain
- Occupation:
- Doctor
- Date modified: