An article from today's Telegraph.

Lieutenant-Colonel Maureen Gara, who has died aged 93, had an exacting and adventurous career in wartime field hospitals and afterwards was a distinguished military nurse. On June 14 1944, after the first Normandy landings, Maureen Gara, a Nursing Officer with 79th General Hospital, left in a convoy to set up a large field hospital at Bayeux. On the way to Southampton, people from towns and villages which had been devastated by German bombing cheered her and her colleagues through the streets.
After a sleepless night on the troopship, she clambered down a scramble net into a landing craft, only to find that rough seas prevented the vessel from reaching shore for four hours....

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