We really didn't have it in England, we had it
when we got to the continent and we had to mix it ourselves.
And we didn't give it to the POWs, we kept it for the Allies.
Sterile water, and the powder, a great big 50cc syringe.
Funny I can't remember, but anyway it was in the summer,
and we landed at Aramanse(?), it was an awful trip over,
you know, little boats and submarine things going down,
rolled off, anyway and then we had to go over the rope ladder on
the side of the ship, it couldn't get in the harbour,
you know, as I said, we were not trained as troops,
and the poor captain, anyway we got in,
and there was the landing barge down there,
and they had a sailor down there and the girls,
they had to put a safety belt on each nurse to go down,
we didn't know how to go down a rope ladder on the side of a ship
and you get down there, and you know how boats go like this when
the waves are coming and you'd get down there and then he'd say
"Jump", so you jumped and you were hauled in.
And to get ninety Nursing Sisters over, it took quite a while,
maybe they had two or three lines going down, and I remember
I heard someone, the Captain or somebody say,
"Well I hope that's the last hospital that I have to move,"
Cause it was slow.
Then when we got into Bayeux, that's where all the hospitals were
it was, the whole area was like a Red Cross, suppose to be a
protected area, for hospital, you know for planes,
had to wear our tin hats to bed. Aw, that was wild and they had
all the hospitals lined up, all tents you see, it was all tents,
and as each hospital was filled, casualties coming in,
just coming, coming from the front all the time, you'd
just put your sign out "No Admittance" and the ambulance
would keep going until it found one that was admitting.
I mean it was quick turn over you see.