title: Sisters: Memories from the Courageous Nurses of World War Two
author:  Barbara Mortimer 
description: <b>Barbara Mortimer</b> is an expert on the history of nursing. Over the years she has held various clinical nursing posts and has worked as a nurse teacher and a lecturer in nursing. Dr. Mortimer has planned and taught courses in the History of Nursing at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, Strathclyde, and Glasgow Caledonian Universities. In 2000 she was one of the founders of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing. Since retiring in 2004, she has worked as a Research Assistant at the Royal College of Nursing Archivesbetween 2006 and 2007 on the History of the RCN project (published in 2009).
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  AUNT POLLY SHEDD'S BRIGADE  
    
  
  
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  "Something about the Battle of Hampden?" Grandma took off her
  
  
  spectacles and wiped them reflectively "It seems to me already I
  
  
  have told you everything worth telling; but there!" in a sudden
  
  
  burst of recollection, "did I ever tell you about Aunt Polly
  
  
  Shedd's Brigade? That was quite an affair to those of us that
  
  
  belonged to it!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Oh, no! do tell us about it!" called out the three childish
  
  
  voices in chorus; and Grandma only waited to knit by the seam
  
  
  needle.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I've told you all about it so many times that I don't need to
  
  
  describe again that dreadful morning when the British man-of-war
  
  
  came up the river and, dropping her anchor just opposite our
  
  
  little villa