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Archives : " Ms journal in French (183pp) and English (71pp) June 1940 - August 1950, describing her service as a nurse attached to the 68th French Infantry Division (68e Division d'Infanterie) (her status is not further defined) around Dunkirk/St Malo in May 1940, her joining the Free French Forces in London (British born, dual British/French nationality) in November 1940, her service in London as NCO nurse/switchboard operator describing numerous meetings with senior FF officers including de Gaulle and Koenig, morale (especially after the Darlan incident), bombing raids, her joy on returning to France (Le Mans, Chartres and Paris, 23 August 1944), giving good descriptions of civilian conditions and morale, outbreaks of fighting (including at de Gaulle's reception at Notre Dame and, an air raid of 26 August), recriminations against 'collaborators', discrimination against British-born Free French, VE Day and other celebrations, demobilization (October 1945), subsequent service attached to British Army HQ in Paris (1945-1947), attacks on her by Communist thugs, return to London (1947) and service in the RASC TA (1950)."
www.iwm.org.uk  Laurent Laloup le jeudi 25 mai 2017 Contribution au livre ouvert de Charlotte Eswyn Toutain | |
