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People mentioned in the diary:
- Fellow QAIMNS nurses:
- Brenda: Brenda Morgan. Brenda was killed when the Japanese shelled the temporary hospital at Rosary Hill where she was a nurse.
- Daphne: Daphne Anne Van Wart, Joan's roomate in Stanley Camp room 10/7
- Freda: Edith Freda Davies
- Miriam: Miriam Beaman, Joan's roomate in Stanley Camp room 10/7
- Molly: Amelia Fleming Gordon
- Canadian Army Medical Corps nurses:
- Kay: Kathleen Christie
- May: Anna May Waters
- Forbes: Forbes Macleod, who would become Joan's husband after the war.
Book type
Diary / Memoir
Dates of events covered by this document
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Sample pages
Summary of events leading up to the Japanese invasion on 8 Dec 1941.
The journey from Liverpool to Hong Kong
- Sun 21 July 1940 – left for Gibraltar late at night from Liverpool – Viceroy of India
- 27 July 1940 – arrives Gibraltar – doesn’t think much to it
- 28 July 1940 – leaves Gib. Sees Ark Royal, Valiant and HMS Hood
Board St Vincent – holiday cruise, hide all uniform or anything suggesting army …
A Tuesday. Brenda was killed at St Alberts. Sometime between this day and the following Sat. Mickey also was killed.
A very bad day for shelling & ........ bombing. Forbes came to hospital!! The days following were – well just like passing in a fever of work – sleepless days and hellish nights for me – until the surrender.