Place | Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Lewisham, Deptford |
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Accession Number | AWM2018.572.29 |
Collection type | Sound |
Object type | Oral history |
Physical description | audio cassette; TEAC CDX60 |
Maker |
Hobbs, Lawrie Margaret (nee Pfeiffer) |
Place made | Australia: South Australia, Adelaide, Glenside |
Date made | 25 September 2001; 19 November 2001 |
Access | Open |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Source credit to | This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. |
Interview with Lawrie Margaret Hobbs (nee Pfeiffer) about her experiences as a nurse in the Second World War.
Lawrie Margaret Hobbs (nee Pfeiffer) interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers her experience as a young person living through the Second World War, including her work as a nurse at Joyce Green Hospital near Dartford; food and patients at the hospital; bombings at the hospital; her midwifery work; the use of expressed breastmilk to preserve cows milk for the patients; caring for gynecological patients; D-Day; putting out fire bombs; her rheumatism; Ballan Station air raid shelter; her difficulty in getting a passage home to Australia; the Sydney wharfies; Una Lambert and the Jens family; and other topics. The interview discusses in detail Lawrie's husband SX10761 Major Alan Frank Hobbs' experience as a prisoner of war and returned soldier. This interview was continued six weeks later; the final cassette covers: diseases encountered while nursing; desires for food; and histories of Bill Miles and Ian Florence.
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