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Emma Duffin (1883 - 1979): |
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Emma Duffin was born in Belfast. She enlisted as a Voluntary Auxiliary Detachment nurse and worked in front-line hospitals in Northern France and in Egypt. Initially, she was an untrained auxiliary nurse tending to the wounded as they were brought in, and changing and maintaining dressings. She kept a diary during this period. In 1941, during the Second World War, her experience of nursing in war-time was called upon. On the night of the 15th to the 16th of April, 1941, during the raid on Belfast by some two hundred Luftwaffa bombers, over nine hundred people were killed. Emma reported to Belfast market which was being used as a morgue. The experience left a profound expression, which she recorded in her diaries of the Second World War. These diaries are now in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland.
| Born: | 1883 |
| Died: | 1979 |
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