Through Dangers, Toils and Snares... "Seems like trouble's your middle name, McGrath." It’s easy to understand why Matron said that. Nursing Officer Colleen McGrath, who trained with Anne (n) Linton*, saw plenty of trouble during the war. *See Sound of Battle, by the same author. Her commanding officer in Italy inveighed against her for “intolerable” behaviour towards the Chaplaincy. She avoided court martial only through the shortage of nurses in the Far East, where the CO sent her to get rid of her. In less than a month, she escaped strafing, bombing, shipwreck and a knife attack. In Calcutta’s Grand Hotel, she broke a vase over the head of a drunken special forces officer and had to be taken into protective custody. On the Gothic Line in Italy and later in Burma, she encountered suffering that beggared belief. But her greatest ordeal was yet to come - back home. The Great Enemy sometimes targets particular individuals and Colleen was one. Nevertheless, she would be blessed with grace abounding and in the end find her desired haven, with the man she loved.