Nursing at the Frontline

RAF Nursing Orderly Harold Scrafield’s memoir details his wartime service, including secret missions, frontline nursing, and Mediterranean travels. About 10 years ago a chance encounter led Bandy to be entrusted with a treasure trove of wartime notes, photos, paintings and ephemera that coalesced themselves into the memoirs of a WW2 RAF Nursing Orderley, LAC Harold Scrafield. A story unfolded through these papers of an older call up, wartime nursing, and travel through the Mediterranean area dur