DavidBeckett
proper brummie kid
** unsure if this belongs here or in the Blitz thread but thought I'd start here **
I have been browsing through the BHF site for a while now, but I'm not making much progress on a couple of questions I have. I hope someone may be able to help out with some suggestions/directional guidance. The back story:
The only clues I really have from her record of events/write-up is where she mentions:
Any hints/thoughts/suggestions would be most welcome as I will be in Birmingham at the end of April for a conference and would like to try and see the places mentioned during an "off day".
I have been browsing through the BHF site for a while now, but I'm not making much progress on a couple of questions I have. I hope someone may be able to help out with some suggestions/directional guidance. The back story:
- I am Canadian, born of a British mother and a Canadian father (soldier in WWII); they married near the end of WWII in the Selsey area.
- At the start of the war my mother was in training to become a nurse.
- She is listed in the 1939 Register (when she would have been 19 or 20) as "Hospital Nurse Probation" with an address of Yardley Green Road.
- According to a short write-up she left us, she and a friend were caught in an air raid which I believe occurred 1940 11 22.
- that seems supported by records on BARRA.
The only clues I really have from her record of events/write-up is where she mentions:
- the show as being "Earl Williams-Tower Room?", and
- the bomb which caught her and her friend was somewhere close to Coventry Road.
- Mom is simply referred to as "Bolton" (her maiden name), and specifies an address as Isolation Hospital, Little Bromwich.
- I'm trying to figure out if this is the same hospital as listed in the 1939 Register (Yardley Green Road?) or if it is the hospital on Wagon Lane.
- The sole other nurse listed in this raid is Mary Dorothy Felix so I'm assuming this was Mom's friend.
- She is listed as killed that night.
- Her address is listed as Selly Oak Hospital, so perhaps Mom and her friend had trained together and were off to work in different hospitals?
Any hints/thoughts/suggestions would be most welcome as I will be in Birmingham at the end of April for a conference and would like to try and see the places mentioned during an "off day".