Assignments and Geographical Locations:
ASF 4 SVC Camp Blanding, Florida [Army Service Forces 4 Service Comand]
Camp Shelby, Mississippi, August 30, 1942
4th SC SO 222/1, 60th Station Hospital, September 4, 1942 [4th SCSU Service Comand Service Unit]
Camp Kilmer, NJ, November 30, 1942   [Honey crossed from the U.S. to England on 7 December 1942 on the Queen Elizabeth.]
110th Station Hospital, December 17, 1942

In the days, weeks and months, following the D-Day invasion, Florence cared for soldiers as a neuropsychiatric nurse at the 110th Station Hospital installed in Netley on the grounds of the Royal Victoria Military Hospital located near Southhampton England.

The British transferred the hospital to the U.S. Navy and Army in prepration for what would be the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 and was it was returned to the British in July 1945. Prior to her time in Netley, she served as an assistant chief nurse and surgical supervisor with the 110th and she assisted in setting up and operating four hospitals in the ETO (European Theater of Operation) including at Warrington, England.

The photo above is the 110th Station Hospital at Warrington in 1943, one of the four surgical hospitals in the ETO that Honey assisted in setting up in preparation for D-Day.

In the book, "No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son's Journey to Normandy" author Walter Ford Carter mentions that his father was a doctor with the 110th Station Hospital in which Florence Gildea served. I contacted Mr. Carter and he forwarded these items which mention life in the 110th and the arrival of the nurses (including Aunt Honey) to Camp Kilmer in New Jersey on November 30, 1942. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who knew Aunt Honey as it chronicles her time in England up until Norval requested to be placed with the combat soldiers which led to his death in Normandy.

Letter from Norval Carter      Excerpts-Letter from doctor who served in the 110th   

For more information about the Royal Victoria Netley Hospital during the war years and beyond, visit www.netleyabbeymatters.co.uk and read the History of Netley Hospital - World War II and beyond. The researcher has documents showing the configuration of the buildings, memories of Navy nurses who worked in the main hospital with corridors that were one quarter mile long. One mentioned that the Navy nurses had quarters in one of the buildings but the Army nurses' quarters were tents on the grounds of the hospital.