NextBackWe used to go to the railway station to practice bandaging and dealing with broken limbs. At one time there were about twenty or thirty of us. The railway station wasn't where it is now and in the old station we had a room which was covered over. Our Superintendent Mr. Jakeman was in the railways so he was well in with the station master and we got everything free. Sometimes the fire services from other towns would come and we would have completions against each other.
“The authorities at the Danilo asked if an ambulance man could cover them so one night a week I would be on duty at the cinema and stand at the side. I used to see all the films for free.”
"After Dunkirk a couple of hundred wounded soldiers were sent to Barnsley Hall in Bromsgrove. They came by train to Redditch station and I had to go and help unload them. We ambulanced them or put them in wheel chairs and others were able to walk. Some were badly wounded.”
