Kay (nee Ward) Hoskin – A former corporal photographer in the R.C.A.F. in London (a unit which did a great deal of processing work for the English hospital at East Grinstead, the RCAF wing of which was devoted to plastic surgery), drying, cutting and filing films by day, she spent a year improving herself by attending classes at night.
Discharged after three years with the RCAF, Kay began an apprenticeship at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver, working alongside former combat photographer, Bill Grant of the Canadian Army Film Unit, who scooped the world with his pictures of D-Day landings in Normandy.
Kay would learn the technical expertise necessary to qualify as a clinical photographer at the hospital. Some of the duties learned; title-work, film splices, film projection, and the workings of the Cine Kodak Special motion picture camera in moving picture work, and the Speed Graphic for stills. She also learned the technique in making Kodachrome transparencies, used in the study of wounds and lesions.
Also joining her at the hospital would be former RCAF veterans; Ken Buckley, and ‘Buzz’ Bailey.
SOURCE: The Vancouver Daily Province, Friday, March 8th, 1946 via Newspapers.com
Profile Details
RANK: CPL
DUTIES: PHOTOGRAPHER
LOCATION: OVERSEAS
BRANCH: RCAF
