the nurses were sister dorothy field and sister molly evershed.norwich after leaving ely high school. we don't know what she looked like but this is her school photo and she is in there. somewhere. dorothy qualified at king's college hospital in london. in 1944, molly and dorothy were on board the hospital carrier amsterdam when it hit a mine and sank off the normandy coast. the nurses help to save 75 wounded men before losing their lives when the ship went down. it was 7am on a foggy sunday morning, the amsterdam was waiting to go home full of injured men in the wards below deck. so she swung at anchor off the normandy coast. a mine hit the engine room. the lights went out and the amsterdam was broken into. ——in two. she and the other sister on board, dorothy field, were taken into the lifeboats and they were therefore technically rescued, but they went back again and again and again, and between them they rescued 75 strecher—bound troops. and then, sadly, they went down for another lot, and the ship went down. and that was the end of molly. this

the nurses were sister dorothy field and sister molly evershed.mpshire, and soham, in cambridgeshire. molly trained as a nurse in norwich after leaving ely high school. we don't know what she looked like but this is her school photo and she is in there. somewhere. dorothy qualified at king's college hospital in london. in 1944, molly and dorothy were on board the hospital carrier amsterdam when it hit a mine and sank off the normandy coast. the nurses helped to save 75 wounded men before losing their lives when the ship went down. the amsterdam was waiting to go home full of men in the wards below decks. so she swung at anchor off the normandy coast. a mine hit the engine room. the lights went out and the amsterdam was broken into. she and the other sister on board, dorothy field, were taken into the lifeboats and they were therefore technically rescued, but they went back again and again and again, and between them they rescued 75 strecher—bound troops. and then, sadly, they went down for another lot, and the ship went down. dorothy was 32, molly

field. queen alexander imperial nursing service. this, i think was dorothy's the cold english channel, they help to save 75 men, one for each year that has passed. two of the names on the british normandy memorial, which we will remember almost 22,000 servicemen and women from d—day 75 yea rs servicemen and women from d—day 75 years on. it's almost time for the 1pm news with naga munchetty in arromanches and ben brown in london but before the weather, on this momentous day, let's leave you with some of the moving moments from this morning, marking the 75th anniversary of the d—day. music: la marseillaise applause choir sings my most abiding memory of that day is of seeing our boys, who we had been talking to minutes before, and they were cut down with machine—gun fire. it was pretty bad at that time. they fell into the water, floating face down, and we couldn't get them out. we couldn't help them. and that is my most abiding memory. and i can't forget it. a lot going on with our weather over the next few days. sunshine and showers for the rest of the afternoon