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Maud Belfield was a nurse in India and
Burma specialising in tropical diseases
Shj says: "We never saw any fighting,
but we saw plenty of the soldiers who
had been involved in it."
At the end of the war she treated
former PoWs aboard a hospital ship.
There were only 10 nursing staff but
thousands of soldiers on board.
Petty Officer K Costello's escort
carrier HMS Speaker was used to
transport home former PoWs.
"Navy grub" and rum rations had most of
them feeling better on their return.
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