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A Nurse in London During the Blitz Years

My grandmother trained as a nurse in the autumn of 1940. The bombing had started in September and by the time she reported for duty at St Thomas' Hospital the windows were taped and the sandbags were up to her shoulders. She was nineteen years old.

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Quiet Ember

Beautiful writing. Thank you for sharing your grandmother with us.

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Fatima Z.

The letter the mother wrote three weeks later. That she kept it her whole life. I am undone.

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Emma S.

Please write the book Grace. This community needs it.

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