D-Day Casualties

You were just getting rumours and you knew... and also the planes were going over and you knew something was on. And then, I can’t remember the first... I don’t remember what day the first casualties came back, but I remember we did a lot of dressings and... getting our wards ready so we’d be all ready for them and the wards had to be emptied because all the patients we had were sent off to other hospitals or back to their units so that we’d have empty beds for the casualties when they come in and they came in by train and then by ambulance to our hospital.Interviewer: So you had an empty hospital one minute. Next minute it was full.Pretty close to that.Interviewer: What was that like? It was a lot of hard work but I think it was what you would call organized confusion because it may be confused, but the army always seemed to know what they were doing because that’s their training and they anticipated and that’s why they need to be practicing and why the... and I think that is why the troops do so well is because they practice and they can anticipate a lot of things that are going wrong.