BMMHS Evening Meeting: White Ship - Red Crosses
White Ship - Red Crosses
A British Hospital Ship at War
Speaker: Nicci Pugh

Wednesday 12th October 2022; 7:30 pm

BMMHS Meeting Venue
Woodcote Village Hall, Reading Road, Woodcote, RG8 0QY
White Ship - Red Crosses – A British Hospital Ship at War
“We heard that HMS Sheffield had been sunk… and we all knew our services were now urgently required.”
Listen to Nicci talking about her experiences on BBC Radio Devon


Signed copies of Nicci Pugh’s White Ship – Red Crosses. A Nursing Memoir of The Falklands War will be available after Q&As.
Argentina Invades the Falklands

Conversion to Hospital Ship
Sailing for the South Atlantic

Helicopter Emarkation of the Wounded

“These are the personal stories of the injured servicemen and the Naval Nurses and Doctors who fought the all-important battle to ‘bring them back alive’.” Brian Hanrahan BBC War Correspondent during The Falklands War 1982

Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service

Saving Lives

“As I toured the wards of that remarkable ship during my flying visit, I found all of my seriously wounded soldiers who had been helicoptered off the battlefi eld, some of whom I thought I would never see again, and saw for myself the inspirational care of the Naval medical and nursing staff that had saved lives and on which recovery was depending. It was hardly a mile offshore, but it felt a very long way from Mount Tumbledown.” Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely KCB, MC, Company Commander in 2nd Battalion Scots Guards 1982


Biographical notes – Nicci Pugh



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