When's Mummy Coming?: A completely gripping and unforgettable story about the Kindertransport during WW2 (Hearts at War Book 1) by Rachel Wesson

Author:Rachel Wesson [Wesson, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Published: 2023-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

Sally soon settled into working at the hospital and enjoyed her time there, although to begin with there weren’t many war patients. She liked chatting to other women volunteers and then going home to the children after her shifts. She had the best of both worlds.

TWENTY-SIX

JUNE 1940

The siren wailed, causing a number of nurses to jump.

“What is it now?” Belle shouted above the siren. Sally shrugged, trying to concentrate on the patient she was tending to. “I’m sorry, Nurse. I didn’t mean to mess up the bed. I just…”

Sally reassured him as best she could. It must be so embarrassing for a young strapping lad to be confined to bed, never mind having to use a bedpan.

“Relax, soldier, you’ve done your bit for the war. Now let us do ours.”

The soldier stared at something over her head, and she guessed he was back on the beaches of France. From the little they’d heard from similar patients, Dunkirk had been hell on earth. The Nazis had continued to shell the beaches, even the hospital ships. Thousands died on the beach or in the water waiting to get on a ship.

“You should have seen it over there, Nurse. Bodies flying all over the place or bits of them. The things I could tell you…” The man fell silent; he was a boy really. He couldn’t be much more than eighteen. She pushed his fringe out of his eyes.

“Look at me. You got through. You’re home. Try to think of that, or think of when your mum and dad get word you’re back home.”

“Home.” The boy smiled as he drifted off to sleep, the morphine finally working its magic.

The ward sister came by seconds later. “How’s he doing?”

“He’s seen too much for a young lad.” Sally muttered a prayer for Derek. Where was her husband? Was he on a beach waiting for a ship to rescue him?

“You’d make a great nurse, Matthews. You have a way with the patients. Pity you’re married.”

Sally stared at the sister as she walked off, but Belle burst out laughing. “Shame on you, Matthews, for getting a ring on your finger!”

Grateful to her new friend for trying to lighten the mood, Sally asked, “Did you find out what the siren was for?”

Belle looked uncomfortable.

“What? Tell me.”

“Someone said it was a Jerry firing his guns at the Red Cross train in Chertsey station. He put a load of bullet holes in the four coaches but thankfully they had already been unloaded. Minutes earlier, they would have been full of patients. The platform isn’t long enough to unload the whole train; they have to take it four coaches at a time.”

Jerries shouting at Chertsey station. They normally targeted the bigger cities.

“Surely he saw the Red Cross markings?” Sally stuttered, horrified at such depravity.

“He couldn’t miss them, could he? Anyway, one of our lot shot him down.”

Sally crossed herself. She wasn’t sure why but it seemed the right thing to do. Maggie’s influence on her. Although her friend didn’t practise now, she had been born Catholic and hadn’t lost some of the characteristics.

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