Good evening. For today's program, we have invited Sophie, a lady, who worked as a nurse during World War 2.
Good evening. At the beginning of World War 2, the government called on all its citizens 18 years old and over to help out. I started training as a nurse in November 1940. It was 2 months of being taught basic skills in the school of nursing.
What happened to you during the sudden attack, you know when Nazi Germany dropped bombs on Britain?
Manchester was bombed on the twenty-second and twenty-third of December 1940. On December twenty-forthth, I received an order requesting my immediate return from leave for duties of nursing the wounded. Many volunteers in the Manchester social services have taken a week's leave for the Christmas holidays. So the Manchester city rest centers were short of staff. Christmas Day was therefore my first day of nursing.