The D-Day landings. On 6 June 1944 my mother was a nurse in Leicester Royal Infirmary. There were military wards in the Infirmary and she was on one of them. The D-Day landings had been kept secret but evidently some of the convalescent soldiers had inside information. There was total silence as the day nurses filed in. Usually there was banter and shouts of "left-right-left!" as the nurses marched in. But today the "boys" had managed to commandeer headphones from all over the hospital and were all eagerly monitoring the radio news. There were no headphones left in the civilian wards. It was clear that something was up, although for a long time the soldiers refused to say what it was. Within 24 hours the first casualties started arriving, by which time the cat was out of the bag.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:30:21 +0000
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