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Daphné Burnside

Daphné Burnside - son Livre ouvert !
 

JOURNEY DOWN A BLIND ALLEY Mary Borden

"... They were not dismayed, the young women. Mrs. Cook produced a couple of dozen M.T.C. volunteers who were first vetted by T. W. and reduced to twelve, then interviewed by me. It was a difficult business to choose. As I looked into their faces, listened to their voices, I realized what a gamble it was. For this was not like going to France. If I chose wrong and a girl turned out badly I couldn't send her home. The same applied to the nurses. Some who applied were too old, some too young, some didn't look strong. It was all very tricky. Daphne Burnside, M.T.C, was dangerously alluring, but there was something very sweet and good-humored about her. I was right about Daphne. Joy Goode looked sturdy and inspired confidence, she would stay the course; I was wrong, she was married to Mervyn Phipps from my house in the Lebanon four months later. Edith Irving might have a temper but her nursing experience was very great and her giggle very infectious. She might turn up trumps. Right again. She did. I learned to count on Irving. But how could I tell what we were going to come up against and what was an ideal recruit for our adventurous enterprise with a future as vague and un- certain as ours? I didn't know..."

MTC (Mechanized Transport Corps) ?

Laurent Laloup le samedi 18 avril 2020 - Demander un contact

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Mechanised Transport Corps 

L'AMBULANCE HADFIELD SPEARS OU LA DROLE D'EQUIPE Jacques Duprey

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Jean Jiberry, Jean Daniel, Joan Hemingway ???

Hadfield-Spears Unit...

" Carolann Smith-Dorrien March 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I have just purchased Rachel Millet’s “Spearette” as my mother, Cynthia Toulmin as well as my Godmother Barbara Graham and their great friend Rosaleen Forbes and Kit Tatham Warner (known as KT)all served together in the Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit. I was thrilled to find them all mentioned in the book, as well as my late father, Peter Smith-Dorrien – and even me as their “small daughter”! I also met both May Spears and her husband General Louis Spears in their flat in Eaton Square, London SW1 probably around 1952.
They were a brave,feisty, humorous, inventive, utterly wonderful group of women who deserve to be remembered for their extraordinary and selfless contribution to the war effort -we shall not see their like again. The BBC broadcast a programme called Tin Hats and Silk Stockings in 1989 (I think) about some of these amazing women, including those named above. If anyone is interested I have a DVD of this which could be copied. Lest we forget. Carolann"

GR 16 P 574787 | TOULMIN ( Cynthia ) | 0000-00-00
GR 16 P 228238 | FORBES ( Rosaleen ) | 0000-00-00
GR 16 P 98102 | BURNSIDE ( Daphné ) | 0000-00-00
GR 16 P 389826 | MANN ( Annabel ) | 0000-00-00 (pour Maria ? )

Photo : L'AMBULANCE HADFIELD SPEARS OU LA DROLE D'EQUIPE Jacques Duprey

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