Interview with Lawrie Margaret Hobbs (nee Pfeiffer) about her experiences as a nurse in the Second World War.

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London, Lewisham, Deptford
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
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Description

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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