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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.