Originally Posted by
Danny42C
Pom Pax,
In civilian hospitals a long time ago, patients were "prescribed" a glass of Guinness every evening as a "tonic" (good idea !)
My Mary did most of her (postwar) nursing career at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Was a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Burns and Plastic Surgery. Met the "Guinea Pigs" many times at their reunions.
I have the paperback book "McIndoe's Army" (by Edward Bishop; pub: Grub Street, 4, Rainham Close, SW11 6SS; ISBN 1 904943 02 0; 2004 edition). (Available S. American River at exorbitant prices. Possibility of a Kindle).
I Posted on it on Page 359, #7158, you followed me on #7159.
Cheers, Danny.
I had two spells totalling about 7 weeks at HMS Drake, a stone frigate & the RN Hospital in Plymouth. The first time I was officially stationed at RAF Tangmere but attached to the Army and stationed at Crownhill Fort, the second time I had been posted to RAF Mountbatten. Every evening we all got a bottle of either Guinness or Mackeson. And who could forget cheesy-hammy-eggy for tea.
At that time I was probably the only person in the RAF whose medical category (allocated by the RN) was "P7 - unfit for sea-going duty"; that really confused the Army and the RAF.
And just try to clear from a station at which you never arrived - whilst I was attached to the army 38 Group had moved from Tangmere to Odiham.