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Description
Mr. Meiklejohn describes the feeling of the unit when the male head nurse was replaced by a woman, and recalls how she came to be accepted.
Transcription
Our corporal was a well trained operating room nurse, he wasn't a nurse by profession but back in England they trained him so that when we were working with the British and the same with them, Corporal Watt (sp) was the operating room nurse in charge and responsible for the instruments being sterilized and all that sort of thing. And when we came back to the Canadians, the powers that be decided that they were going to send up a real army nurse. This didn't go over well at all with our boys and because, why, we were doing fine the way we were and we don't want any dame around. She'd be a nuisance. Well they sent us a little girl, Ms. Ackmyre(sp). She came from Winnipeg, she was small, broad and . . . but she had only been there a short time, she got into a game of poker with the boys and she cleaned them out and they respected her a great deal after that. She made it! She's one of them! Everything went smooth from there on, yeah.