David

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Read it and worth reading.ZeroDeConduite wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:32 pm Growing up in a War. ?
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Assuming he was over the age of consent which, at 17 I presume he would have been at the time of this incident, and assuming it was consensual, which it clearly was, then no offence would have been committed. Obviously it would have been seen as a breach of trust from the school's perspective and I suspect that the nursing profession would have taken a dim view but nothing illegal.Foureyes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:46 am
Magee was a scrupulously honest man and there can be no doubt that the incident took place as he described. However, it does raise an interesting question. The woman was a qualified sister which indicates that she had done her full course as a nurse and, assuming that she had started training at 17-18, she would have been at least 23-24 when she arrived at C.H. - possibly older. In other words, she was an adult and a member, in general terms, of staff at the school. On the other hand, Magee was still a pupil at the school. If it had been a man who did what she did, he would undoubtedly have been charged with - and found guilty of - abuse. But could the nameless 'night sister' have been charged with the same offence? An interesting philosophical and legal point which I am sure Magee would have enjoyed debating.
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Very true. In this age of "equality" it is easy to forget that different people have different experiences.Foureyes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2019 5:58 am postwar blue,
Concerning your comments on the 'different' CHs, I think that is inevitable. We could probably draw complicated Venn diagrams of each individual's involvement - house, form, stream, societies, scouts, CCF, etc, etc - and we would each have had different experiences and memories.
Food. I thought that Housie food was excellent for both quality and quantity, but that view may have been coloured by the fact that my mother was the world's worst cook!
Cockney Boys. I believe that in our time there were some 80-100 London boys at the school (LCC and other scholarships) so it was very much a shared experience.