posted on 2024-06-05, 19:57authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
Marine-Fraser Maple was a nurse training at St Thomas's in 1943. She remembered saving sugar from the ration to help fight off the cold at night, and wearing cardigans under their nurse's uniforms to keep warm. Started nursing properly around the time of the V1 attacks in 1944.
LAC E D Ball was stationed in the Azores with the RAF.
History
Item list and details
1. Diaries (possibly of Maple)
2. Memorabilia from time in the Azores (Ball) - photos, pantomime programmes, etc
Person the story/items relate to
Marine-Fraser Maple and Ernest Dudley Ball
Person who shared the story/items
John Alexander Arkell
Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
Mother and Uncle
Type of submission
Shared at Skinners School, Kent on 15 September 2023.