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Publisher: Potlatch Publications
Genre: war; memoirs
Format: trade paperback; 168 pages; black & white photographs
Price: $19.95 
With living memories of World War Two fading, many Canadians may not know that over 3,200 nursing sisters served with the Canadian forces, 2,150 of them overseas. They staffed military hospitals in England, Africa, Hong Kong, Northwest Europe, Sicily and Italy. One of these sisters was Doris Carter. She had immigrated to Canada at six months of age with her parents. She did her training at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, graduating in 1935. She applied to serve as a military nurse the day Hitler invaded Poland. Her tour of duty took her to England, Algeria, Sicily, Italy and Belgium. Carter and her nursing sisters brought aid and comfort to more than 60,000 wounded Canadian soldiers, as well as soldiers from other countries, including Germans.
Here, in her own words, Lieutenant Doris Carter shares her memories of her overseas service from 1940 to 1945.