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Mary Coulthard WAAF nursing orderly Kenley 18 August 1940
Hi guys
Mary Coulthard was severely injured (leg amputated?) during the air raid on Kenley. She was described in one account as a nursing orderly, in another as an officer. Can anyone confirm? And what was her fate? Stay safe Brian |
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Re: Mary Coulthard WAAF nursing orderly Kenley 18 August 1940
To reiterate from my reply to your other post, there is no RAF cas card for a Mary Coulthard for 18 Aug 1940 or the rest of the BofB (that is not to say it hasn't been lost). There are no Mary Coulthards on the CWGC site while between 1912 and 1920, there are 21 Mary Coulthards born in UK. If she was a "sick bay attendant" she would not have been an officer
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Re: Mary Coulthard WAAF nursing orderly Kenley 18 August 1940
Hi Chris
I'm only repeating what's been written on Kenley Revival website: "Mary Coulthard, one of the two WAAF sick-bay attendants, was badly injured. She had the most enormous cut in her thigh. I had never seen anything like it, she had been thrown on to a steel helmet which had sliced through her leg. She and the other attendant were smiling though, because they had applied a tourniquet which had worked; and I smiled too -- I, who under normal circumstances, could faint at the sight of someone's cut finger! We tied a label on to her before she was taken to hospital." Brian |
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