in Moncton, N.B., where she studied for three years. Following her training she was employed in a private hospital in Sussex, N.B., where she was one of a staff of three nurses.

After a year there, Margaret moved on to the East St. John Hospital for tuberculosis patients where she stayed for about nine months. However, she had always dreamed of being a nurse in the army. So she and some of her friends signed up in St. John in August 1942. She then went to England.

Margaret and Clifford Ellis

In 1944 she was stationed in Bayeax, France, where she lived in tents for about three months. Conditions were crude. There were numerous casualties requiring nursing care. While there she met many Canadians.

Her work then took her to Bruges, Belgium, a city which had just been bombed. She and her co-workers moved into a girls’ reformato- ry, where living conditions were described as poor. After ten months there, she was moved to smaller hospitals scattered throughout the countryside. At one of these hospitals there were German prisoners of war. Margaret was on night duty in the ward which was guarded all the time. Because the German nurses had told the prisoners that the Canadian nurses would poison them, the nurses, including Margaret, had to take the medications first before any of the prison-

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