The Nightingale Shore Murder by Rosemary Cook

Author:Rosemary Cook
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784626587
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

There were other risks for the Queen’s Nurses in their war work. During their travels to their posts, some of them experienced capture and imprisonment; and several wrote to the QN magazine about being on ships that were torpedoed. Meirion Evans and her companions survived such an event in 1917:

‘Our ship was torpedoed at 10am and sank in an hour. The nursing staff (66 of us) were the first to be lowered into the life boats, and were in our boat for three hours when we were picked up by an ally’s destroyer. The last hour was dreadful as the boat was full of water and we had to stand up and cling to one another or anything we could get hold of. The sea was so rough by this time that the waves were coming right over our heads at times, and two or three nurses were washed away, but a splendid sailor boy rescued them. They said the boat would have floated forever, but I am afraid in another half hour we should have been done up. We were at last landed and stayed in convents, the people were very good to us.’

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