Bibliograph

This navy doctor came ashore, Charles H. Read Jr., MDCM

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This navy doctor came ashore, Charles H. Read Jr., MDCM

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This navy doctor came ashore

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Charles H. Read Jr., MDCM

Summary

Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the three weeks he spent in Charlottetown when he relieved the medical officer at HMCS Queen Charlotte. This city of 20,000, in which this landship was 'moored', was much to his liking partly because he had grown up in Amherst, Nova Scotia, just across the Northumberland Strait, where he thought the culture was very similar. He also knew that as the only medical officer there would be independence, significant responsibility and virtual freedom from naval protocol and politics. One couldn't ask for more

Target audience

adult

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