Summary

March, 1941 – Mary reports to the Air Raid Precautions Station at Saint Helen’s Church in Bishopgate where she is to be the new driver for the Join War Organization stretcher party. There, she meets a man named Huw, who along with Clive, handle a stretcher. Hilda, who will be working in the same crew as a nurse, has already arrived. Mary says hello to Hilda, then begins to familiarize herself with the van she will be driving. That evening, the Germans begin their bombing raids once more, and the crew sets out to recover the wounded to bring them back to the hospital set up at the church. The foreheads of the injured are marked according to their injury classifications and any treatments administered before arrival, such as with an X for internal injuries, a T for trauma, and an M for morphine already...