Christina Murray

Carlene

During the war Christina Murray was a nurse. She was nursing from 1943 to 1946. She went into nursing because when you were 17 you had the choice of either being a nurse or joining one of the forces. She really wanted to be in the navy but her mam wouldn’t let her so she went to do nursing instead.

She worked in Raigmore hospital in Inverness. This was not the hospital you see today but the first Raigmore hospital, which was built as an emergency hospital during the war for wounded service men.

In October 1944 the first train of German prisoners of war arrived. The German prisoners were guarded by armed sentries. Most of the German prisoners had orthopaedic (bone) injuries. There were also Italian prisoners of war in the hospital as well but they had to be kept in separate wards from the Germans to stop them from fighting.