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Christopher Shortall (centre) in Theatre during his overseas service with the RAF in the Second World War.

Christopher Shortall – A Surgeon during the Second World War by Myles Shortall

Myles Shortall, a retired Newry GP, remembers his father, a wartime Medical Officer and Surgeon at Daisy Hill Hospital and Newry General Hospital. This is an edited version of an article in the booklet accompanying Newry and Mourne Museum’s temporary exhibition, Caring for the Community: The Development of Medicine in Newry and Mourne.

  • Christopher Shortall (centre) in Theatre during his overseas service with the RAF in the Second World War.

    Christopher Shortall – A Surgeon during the Second World War by Myles Shortall

    Myles Shortall, a retired Newry GP, remembers his father, a wartime Medical Officer and Surgeon at Daisy Hill Hospital and Newry General Hospital. This is an edited version of an article in the booklet accompanying Newry and Mourne Museum’s temporary exhibition, Caring for the Community: The Development of Medicine in Newry and Mourne.

  • Theatre staff at Daisy Hill Hospital in 1984. Front row (left to right): Dympna Duffy, Noreen Magee, May Finnerty, Catriona Fitzpatrick, unknown, Beatrice O’Reilly, Roisin McKay. Back row (left to right): John Davis, Rosaleen Larkin, Jacqueline Wynne, Winifred McClory, Theresa O’Callaghan, Ruth Crozier, Marian McCall, Mary Malone, Oliver Ryan.

    A Life less ‘Orderly’, working as a Medical Orderly at Daisy Hill Hospital during the Troubles by John Davis

    John Davis, a former Medical Orderly, shares his memories of working at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry. This is an edited version of an article in the booklet accompanying Newry and Mourne Museum’s temporary exhibition, Caring for the Community: The Development of Medicine in Newry and Mourne.

  • An image of the exterior of Newry & Mourne Museum.
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    How My Mother Survived the Holocaust - part 2 by Lill Fanny Saether

    In part 1 Lill Fanny Saether outlined how her family was one of a number of Jewish families which settled in Newry at the turn of the 20th century. Her family later went to live in Norway and this week Lill continues her story of her mother, and family members owed their survival in the Holocaust to the fact that having lived in Newry, they had British citizenship. An uncle and aunt of hers who hadn't lived in Newry and didn't have British passports were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. 

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