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A life story by Irene Brown : pages 433-474.
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Irene Brown was born Irene Coombs on Feb. 10, 1920 in Huddersfield in Yorkshire, England. Her youth was spent travelling with her theatrical parents. She attended Longley Hall School and after the death of her mother moved to Blackpool with her father and step-mother. At the onset of WWII she began nursing training at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport and at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. She worked in the Civil Nursing Reserve and was assigned to the Kirkham Emergency Hospital. She met and married Edward Brown and had three children. Irene and Edward Brown and their children emigrated to Canada in 1956.
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Contains the twelfth (and final) section of Irene [Coombs] Brown's autobiography [ms, 41 leaves, original], titled "May 1942-". The section includes a description of daily life and patients at the Kirkham Emergency Hospital, Irene's introduction to Frances Brown, and through her Edward Brown (Irene's future husband), a description of meeting (in Manchester) and then marrying Edward Brown, and a short description of her honeymoon in the Lake District of Westmorland, some description of the events of the war in relation to her husband's involvement and discharge before D-Day, descriptions of the birth of their children, the end of the war, her husband's training as a machinist and supervisor of a tractor plant, and the emigration of Irene and Edward Brown and their three children to Canada in 1956.