My Work in the Admissions Department

One morning, we’d only been there maybe a day or so, a sergeant comes out and wants to know if anybody can type. I can type, and so I put my hand up, and so the next thing I know I’m working as a clerk in the admissions department of the hospital. And the other guys are going around with mops and brooms and all this nonsense. And so, I worked in the admissions, we called it the orderly room in the Army. I worked in the orderly room for, oh I would say, three or four months, before the Vancouver Military Hospital, the construction of the Vancouver Military Hospital was completed. Once it was completed then I was moved out of the orderly room and into the hospital and into the operating room to be trained as an operating room assistant. And that went along very, very well, and so that’s really where I spent the rest of the war. It was in the Vancouver Military Hospital in the operating room as an operating room assistant.