Australian Nurses in World War 1
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HADFIELD, Ivy Almar

Staff Nurse
AANS
No 9 Australian General Hospital

Born 1891 at Longford, Tas.
Daughter of William HADFIELD and Elizabeth nee SANSON
Home Service General Hospital Tasmania
Enlisted 26 August 1918
Discharged 16 November 1919
Sister of Consumptive Home, Hobart in April 1929
Married Cecil Bertrand DAVIES, OBE
Died 1971 in Hobart, Tasmania
Aged 80 years
Resided Hobart, Tas.
Buried 11 May 1971 at Cornelian Bay Cemetery Church of England H 31

HAGERTY, Beatrice

Nurse
Voluntary Aid Detachment

HAGGARD, Violet Cecile Debonaire

Sister
AANS

Born 21 October 1891 in Adelaide, SA
Daughter of Henry Debonaire Gardner HAGGARD and Annie Louisa nee SANDERSON
Next of kin Miss H L SANDERSON
Age 26 years
Enlisted 07 June 1917 at Keswick, SA
Embarked 12 June 1917 in Melbourne per “Mooltan”
Service in Salonika
Promoted to Sister 12 July 1919
Attended singing lessons 30.6.19 to 21 7.19
Returned to Australia 22 August 1919 per “Anchises” On Duty
Appointment terminated 22 November 1919
Repatriation contact 06 September 1957
Did not marry
Resided Cremorne, NSW
Died 30 July 1957
Aged 65 years
Cremated Centennial Park Cemetery (possible resting place North Road Cemetery where parents are buried)

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On the Hobsons Bay, which berthed at Outer Harbor this morning, was Miss Violet D. Haggard, a passenger from London.  Miss Haggard was formerly a resident of Adelaide, as her father, Capt. H. D. G. Haggard, was aide-de-camp at Government House. She is a niece of Sir Rider Haggard, the author. For the past three years she has been studying singing in London, and is on her way to Sydney

The News 26 February 1930 page 7

HALL, Alice Mary

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 29 September 1889 in Geelong, Vic
Daughter of Alexander Charles HALL and Ann Georgina nee ORR
of Ballarat, Vic
Age 28 years
Training 3 years Geelong Public Hospital
Enlisted 08 November 1917
Embarked 26 November 1917 at Melbourne per “Indarra”
Service in India
Returned to Australia per “Matram” 22 October 1919
Appointment Terminated 26 March 1920
Died 04 July 1947
Buried Springvale Botanical Cemetery Tristania Garden F3 Bed 10 Rose 17

HALL, Alice Maud

Sister
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve

Born 14 November 1880 in Tasmania
Daughter of Richard Caplen HALL and Elizabeth Galliers nee STEPHENSON
Of West Devonort, Tas.
Trained at Hobart General Hospital 1902-18 April 1905
Resigned 27 February 1908
Private Nursing 1908 - 1910 (Matron)
Private Nursing Hospital, Sydney, NSW 1910 - 1913
Arrived in UK 18 April 1914
Sister British Red Cross Hospital Netley 19 October 1914 to 19 April 1915
Resided 4 Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, W
Enlisted 03 June 1915
Arrived in France 15 April 1917 No 32 Stationary Hospital
Served 14 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, France
'Sister Hall has served under me since June 1915.  Her professional knowledge is quite up to the standard of her rank - she is a very capable nurse.  Her ward management is not quite  so proved.  She is interested in and takes pains with the training of her orderlies.  She has a particularly nice disposition, is very mobile and reliable and most attentive and kind to her patients.  She is very hard working and her influence generally is decidedly good.  She has not acted in a rank higher than that she present holds.  I consider her fitted for promotion in due course.'
Posted to Kitcheners Hospital, Brighton for temporary duty pending repatriation 22 May 1919

Demobilized 09 July 1919
Returned to Australia 09 July 1919 per 'Fredrickshrue'
Resided 'Eltham' 299 Edgecliff Road, Woollaura, Sydney, NSW in May 1920
Did not marry
Died 16 July 1949 in Sydney, NSW
(no mention of RRC in service records)

NURSE HONOURED.

Sister Alice Maud Hall, who has been awarded the Royal Red Cross, is a Tasmanian and a daughter of the late Mr. Richard Hall, district surveyor of West Devonport. She was trained in the Hobart General Hospital, and was senior sister and afterwards matron of the Molong private hospital, Darlinghurst.

Sister Hall was on a visit to England when war was declared, and she at once joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve). She has seen service at Netley, Gibraltar, Malta, and France, and was at a casualty clearing station during the last offensive. 

Sister Hall is still on duty in France.   

The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 18 April 1919 page 6

MISS ALICE MAUD HALL

The death occurred on July 16, at a private hospital in Sydney, of Miss Alice Maud Hall, fourth daughter of the late Mr. Richard Hall (district surveyor), County of Devon, and of the late Mrs. Hall of "Lanark," Devonport. Deceased, who was a trained nurse, received her training at the Hobart General Hospital, and afterwards held several important appointments on the mainland. Being in England in 1914, when war broke out, she joined Queen Alexandra's nursing service, and served for the duration of the war. In recognition of her service she was awarded the Royal Red Cross

The Advocate 19 July 1949

HALL, Edith Marianne

13 July Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 07 February 1885 in Maryborough, Qld.
Daughter of Richard Henry Mant HALL and Emily Mary Cliphane nee STACKWELL
Next of kin Alice M SMALL
Age 32 years
Training Brisbane Children’s Hospital
Enlisted 17 July 1917
Embarked 31 August 1917 in Sydney
Service in Salonika
Returned to Australia 09 August 1919 per “Ceramic” On Duty
Appointment terminated 14 January 1920
Did not marry
Died 13 July 1967 in Elsternwick, Vic.
​Resided Elsternwick, Vic.
Cremated 17 July 1967 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery and remains scattered

HALL, Jane

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Sister
AANS
2nd AGH

Born Emily Jane HALL 1889 at. St. Arnaud, Vic.
Daughter of Walter George HALL and Frances nee McCORMACK
Enlisted 16 July 1915
Age 26 years
Embarked 10 August 1915
Service in Egypt, on the field in France
Promoted to Sister 01 October 1918
Returned to Australia per “Wiltshire” 04 July 1919 On Duty
Appointment Terminated 16 November 1919
Did not marry
Died 1975 in St. Kilda, Vic. as Emily Jane HALL



HALL, Marion

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1890 at Ryde, Sydney, NSW
Daughter of Moses Slater HALL and Harriett nee NOAKES
Age 24 years
Enlisted 24 July 1915 in Cairo, Egypt
Embarked 31 July 1915 per “Orontes”
Service in Egypt then transport duty from Suez to Australia
Ships “Demosthenes” “Clan MacGillivray” “Karoola” “New Zealand”
Promoted to Sister 01 September 1917
Returned to Australia 25 October 1917 per “Pakeha”
Re-enlisted 04 December 1917
Embarked 16 October 1918 in Sydney per “Malta”
Service in India
Promoted to Charge Sister 24 April 1919
Returned to Australia 01 December 1919 per “Medic”
Appointment Terminated 17 April 1920An enormous amount of paperwork was produced regarding the lost belongings of Sister Hall
First they were torpedoed and damaged, then collected falsely by an unauthorized person.
It was then recovered and burnt by her pregnant sister.
Married Frank Plummer OLIVER in 1920 in NSW
Died 27 December 1966 in NSW

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HALL, May Eleanor

Sister
AANS

Born 1882 at Campbell's Creek, Victoria
Daughter of Thomas March HALL and Sarah Jane neee WEST
Sister to Charles Livingston HALL
Age 35 years
Training Prince Alfred Hospital
Enlisted 02 April 1917
Embarked 21 April 1917 in Melbourne per “Karoola”
Extensive service on the field in France and then England
Promoted to Sister 01 June 1919
Attended cookery classes 5.5.19 to 27.7.19
Returned to Australia 08 October 1919 per “Benalla”
Appointment Terminated 30 May 1921
Did not marry
Died 14 September1965 in Balwyn, Vic.
​Resided Balwyn, Vic.
Buried Box Hill General Cemetery CE 214 5
Longtime friend of Alice Margaret ROWE a fellow nurse from WWI who died in 1943


HALL, May Isabell

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1881 at Bendigo, Vic.
Sister of Linda Jean HALL
Enlisted 10 May 1915 in Melbourne, Vic.
Embarked 18 May 1915
Appointment terminated 30 October 1918
Enlisted 16 August 1919
Embarked 13 October 1919
- 3rd Australian General Hospital
- 1st Australian General Hospital
- 2nd Australian General Hospital
Appointment terminated 06 October 1920
Nursing duties on various troop transports, including SS Rugia 1919, SS HORORATA which left England on 16 April 1920 returning to Australia with troops, their wives and children
Died 1970 at Steiglitz, Vic.

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THREE YEARS AS NURSE.
SISTER HALL'S EXPERIENCES.


Sister May Hall, daughter of Mrs. Hall, of "Wyuna," Forest-street, Bendigo returned home last Saturday week, after being away for three years on active service. It was in May, 1915, that Sister Hall left Australia. She first proceeded to London, whence she was transferred to Lemnos, where for six months she laboured under the most trying conditions. For eight weeks the patients and attendants alike were nearly starved, and endured great privations, which were only relieved by the practical kindness of the naval men from warships in the bay. From Lemnos Sister Hall went to an Australian hospital in Egypt, near Cairo. Her term of eight months here extended through the trying summer, when Australian sick were pouring in at a rate which taxed the capacity of the nursing staffs to the very limit. The next move was a more congenial one, for it was to Brighton, in England, the famous watering place south of London. Here for six months, Sister Hall was attached to the staff of an Australian hospital, and recuperated after her arduous work in strange lands. Then she was moved off to the South of the Somme, where she was attached to an Australian hospital, which had been constructed by German prisoners.

Before returning home Sister Hall was at the Boulogne No 2 General Hospital for five months, and here she had the experience of being under shell fire from the enemy's guns. The Germans bombed Boulogne, but, fortunately, the hospitals were not hit.

Speaking of the work of the Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A., Sister Hall was loud in her praise of both these splendid institutions. "The Red Cross," she said, "really saved the lives of everyone at Lemnos, where food was practically unobtainable for some time owing to transport difficulties. I cannot speak too highly of the Red Cross work. Each Australian unit in France has its own representative at the Red Cross headquarters. You notify him of your requirements, and you invariably get more than you ask for. The only unfortunate fact is that some of our men who happen to be patients in British hospitals miss these comforts, while the Britishers in our hospitals get them. The Y.M.C.A. also does magnificent work in caring for the men going into, and coming out, of the firing line. At the bases, which are usually about 35 miles behind the firing line, the Y.M.C.A. provides concerts for the men nightly, and does everything possible to entertain and cheer them."
Sister Hall has been granted indefinite leave by the authorities, and is staying with her mother, who is in indifferent health.


The Bendigonian Thursday 14 March 1918 page 12
Sister May Hall, of Bendigo, who had been on active service since May, 1915, recently returned on a
troopship, on indefinite leave, in response to a cable saying that her mother was very seriously ill. Sister Hall has brought back with her a most interesting and unique lot of curios from the different places in which she has been, amongst them being part of an incense burner from Rheims Cathedral, which had had a shell through it. She has had many and varied experiences, having been on duty in Lemnos, Egypt, Brighton (England), and the Somme Valley Base Hospitals.

Graphic of Australia Thursday 28 March 1918 page 12


HALL, Olive Goldridge

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1887 at Geraldton, WA
Daughter of Edward HALL and  Ellen Margaret nee CRAGGS
Age 28 years
Training Perth Public Hospital
Enlisted 06 August 1915
Embarked 10 August 1915
Service in Lemnos and Egypt
Contracted Influenza November 1915
Invalided to England (Anaemia) 06 July 1918
Recovered and further served in France and on the field
Returned to Australia for “urgent reasons” 23 September 1918 per “Runic” On Duty
Appointment terminated 09 December 1918
Repatriation contact 30 August 1961
Did not marry
Died 16 July 1974 in Perth, WA
Aged 87 years
Resided Subiaco, WA
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Crematoriu Rose Gardens 9R 0091
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GERALTDON - The Geraldton visiting nurse scheme will be launched at the beginning of October, when Miss Olive Hall will take up the duties of nurse. Miss Hall is a native of Geraldton, and was away for 3½ years as a nurse with the A.I.F., seeing service in Lemnos, Egypt, and France.

The West Australian Tuesday 14 September 1920 page 8

HALL, Ruby Marian

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1886 at St. Arnaud, Vic.
Daughter of John HALL and Mary Elizabeth nee DOWSLEY
Age 30 years
Training Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Enlisted 12 April 1917
Embarked 21 April 1917 in Melbourne per “Karoola”
Service in France and on the field
Returned to Australia 10 May 1919 per “Wahehe” On Duty
Appointment terminated 03 August 1919


HALLIDAY, Linda Attwill

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1890 at Murwillumbah, NSW
Daughter of Francis A HALLIDAY and Mary nee WARDROP
Of 'Homeleigh', Firth St., Arnscliffe, NSW
Aged 27 years
Enlisted 22 May 1917
Embarked 09 June 1917 per 'Mooltan' from Sydney
Served in Salonika at 60th and 52nd General Hosptials
Embarked for UK 23 January 1919 per 'Dunluce Castle'
Attached to 3rd Australian Auxillary Hospital  in England 25 February 1919
Returned to Australia 10 August 1919 per 'Themistocles'
Appointment terminated 10 September 1919
Married Colin Gordon TEMPLEMAN 20 March 1920
Her son Bruce Alexander Templeman was a Sergeant in the Australian Army during WW2 and was killed in Egypt in 1942.
Her husband drowned in 1953 when his car crashed through a safety gate on a punt and plunged into a river.  
She died 27 July 1976 in NSW.
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Army Doctor and Sister

Captain Colin Gordon Templeman, A.A.M.C, who saw two years' service as medical officer of the 18th Battalion, and Miss Linda Evelyn Halliday, A.A.N.S., who did service for two years in Salonika, were married at St. Stephen's last evening by. the Rev. John Ferguson. The bridegroom is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Templeman, of Allison-road, Randwick, and the bride is the eldest daughter of Mrs. Mary Halliday, of Rockdale. The graceful bridal gown was composed of ivory georgette with a corsage, and rounded tunic over-jupe of ivory brocaded crepe-de-chine. The plaintulle veil was held with a circlet of silverleaves and orange buds. The bouquet was of orchids and roses. Her sister, Miss Mary Halliday, wearing a frock of primrose georgette with a black velvet dahlia holding the jupe folds, and the bridegroom's sister, Miss Millie Templeman, in a frock of pale pink georgette trimmed with narrow self kiltings, were bridesmaids. Both wore black panne picture hats and carried bouquets of pink cactus dahlias.  Lieut. Robert Dryden, M.C., D.C.M.,was best man, and Pte. P. G. Wetherill attended the bridegroom. All three were in khaki. During the signing of the register Miss James sang. The reception was held at Loosen's Cafe. Mrs. Halliday received in a gown of  black charmeuse with drapings of Chantilly lace and a black hat. She carried a posy of violet and mauve asters. Mrs. Templeman's black taffetas gown was veiled in jetted net, and worn with a black tulletoque set with a jet ornament. Her posy was of pink carnations.

Sunday times (Sydney) Sunday 21 March 1920 page 5

HALPIN, Margaret Mary

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 11 February 1878 in Maryborough, Qld
Daughter of Thomas Patrick HALPIN and Ada Jane nee DUCKETT
Sister to Hannah Eliza GLANVILLE
Address Barcaldine Qld
Age 39 years
Enlisted 08 November 1917
Embarked 16 November 1917 per “Canberra” at Sydney
Service in India
Returned to Australia per “Eastern” 13 April 1919
Appointment Terminated 25 July 1919
Sister at Toowoomba Baby Clinic 1923
Married John McGUIRK 17 June 1925
Died 1970
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Sister M. M. Halpin, eldest daughter of Mr T. P. Halpin. William and Davis streets, who has been on service in India for the last eighteen months, is expected to arrive by the southern mail train this afternoon and leave by the mail train tonight for the west.

Morning Bulletin Friday 23 May 1919 page 9

McGUIRK-HALPIN.-On 17th June, at St. Stephen's Cathedral, by Rev. father Walsh, of Gatton, John, second son of Mr. and Mrs.P. McGuirtk, Gatton, to Margaret Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. T. Halpin, Highgate Hill, Brisbane, and the late Mrs. Halpin.

Brisbane Courier Wednesday 15 July 1925 page 6

HAMERSLEY, Eulalie/Eulalia Margaret

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Sister
AANS
1st AGH

Born 1886 at Greenough, WA
Daughter of George HAMERSLEY and Emily Jane nee ANDERSON
Age 28 years
Enlisted September 1914
Embarked 23 March 1915
Service Egypt and extensive service in France and on the field
Promoted to Sister 01 September 1917
Returned to Australia 06 May 1919 per “Karoola”
Appointment terminated 07 December 1919
Did not marry
Died 13 May 1980 in WA
Aged 91 years
Resided Maylands, WA
Ashes scattered Karrakatta Cemetery

State Library of WA holds a photograph

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Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches of 16 March 1919
London Gazette 8th Supplement, No 31448, dated 11 July 1919 for conspicuous service
Commonwealth Gazette No 124, dated 30 October 1919


HAMERSLEY, Fanny Isabella

Sister
AANS

Born 1884 at Guildford, WA
Daughter of Hugh HAMERSLEY and Mary nee JONES
Age 31 years
Training Coolgadi/Kalgoolie Government Hospital
Enlisted 02 July 1915
Embarked 22 July 1915
Service in England and France
Promoted to Sister 01 October 1918
Returned to Australia 18 July 1919 per “Takada”
Appointment terminated 11 October 1919  
In 1920 she married Septimus Frank MALEY
Died 31 October 1977, Perth, Western Australia.
Aged 90 years
Resided North Perth, WA
Ashes scattered at Karrakatta Cemetery
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HAMILTON

Nurse
Voluntary Aid Detachment

10th AGH

www.awm.gov.au
P01034.046
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HAMILTON, Ellen Mary (Nellie)

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Sister
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nurse's Reserve

Daughter of John and Annie HAMILTON
Did not marry
Died 25 February 1967 in Sydney, NSW
Of Glebe Point.
Who has been recommended by Field Marshall French for gallant and distinguished service in the field.  
Sister Hamilton was born in Sydney, educated at the Dominican convent, West Maitland, and trained 
at the Newcastle Hospital.  She is the daughter of the late Mr. John Hamilton, engineer of the Sydney 
Harbour Trust, and of Mrs. Hamilton of St. Clement's,  Toxteth road, Glebe Point.  She left Western 
Australian on the outbreak of war to offer her services and was appointed to a position in the Queen 
Alexandra Imperial Military Nurse's Reserve in France.   Her sister, Nurse Beatrice Hamilton, is matron of the Grafton Hospital.

Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday 04 January 1916 page 5


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Mentioned in Despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 6 April 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 859, position 16
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 70, position 1

MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES.
SISTER E. M. HAMILTON.


Miss Ellen Mary Hamilton, an Australian  nurse, who was recently mentioned in despatches for gallantry in France, was born in Sydney, and was educated at the Dominican Convent, West Maitland. She was trained at the Newcastle Hospital, and went to Western Australia to recuperate after a severe illness,where she remained  for three or four years.  At the outbreak of the war Miss Hamilton went through a course of military training in Perth, and went to England, where she was attached to the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nurses' Reserve, and went to France, and was recently promoted to the position of sister. Miss Hamilton is a daughter of the late Mr. John Hamilton, engineer in the Harbour Trust Department, and Mrs Hamilton, of St. Clement's, Toxtoth-road Globe Point.
Miss Hamilton's address is "General Headquarters, British Expeditionary Forces, Queen Alexandra  Imperial Military Nurses' Service Reserve, France.

The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 3 January 1916 page 8
Photograph Sydney Mail Wednesday 01 October 1919 page 25
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HAMILTON, Maud Clow

Staff Sister
AANS

Born 1890 at Hughenden, Qld.
Daughter of James Clow HAMILTON and Zoe Helen nee FRASER 
Of Gunnewarra, Vic
Age 29 years
Enlisted 12 October 1918
Embarked 14 October 1918 at Sydney per “Wyreema”
Disembarked 10 December 1918 at Fremantle
Admitted to Quarantine Station, Woodmans Point with mild illness
Appointment Terminated 12 February 1919
Married Allan J STEVENSON
Died 1982 in NSW


HAMILTON-MOORE

Masseuse
Red Cross

Embarked for France from NSW July 1916 per 'Kanowna'
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HAMMOND, Helen Gwylda/Guilda

Sister
AANS

Born 25 October 1876 in Auckland New Zealand
Daughter of Robert William HAMMOND and Annie Emily nee GORDEN 
Sister to Harry S HAMMOND of Dunedin, NZ
Age 37 years
Enlisted 14 August 1915 in Cairo, Egypt
Service in Egypt and England
Returned to Australia per “Runic” 04 March 1917 On Duty
Re-enlisted 07 November 1917
Embarked 26 November 1917 at Melbourne per “Indarra”
Service in India and England
Returned to Australia per “Anchines” 22 August 1919
Appointment Terminated 01 April 1921
Did not marry
Died 12 May 1963 at RGH Hospital, Concord, NSW
Aged 87 years


HAMP, Florence Chipp

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 08 August 1877 at Clare, SA
Daughter of William Arthur HAMP and Eliza nee PADDOCK
NOK Miss Hamp 
Of 322 Goodwood Rd. Clarence Park, SA
Age 39 years
Training Adelaide General Hospital
Appointed 07 July 1917
Duty at No 7AGH and No15 AGH
Demobilized 10 October 1918
Did not marry
Died 12 July 1957 at Repatriation Hospital, Springbank, SA
Cause of death Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease (years) Generalised Arteriosclerosis (years)
Aged 79 years
Resided Repatriation Hospital, Springbank, SA
Buried North Road Anglican Cemetery

State Library of South Australia B26285/149
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HANCOCK, Alma Mary

Matron
AANS

Matron at Keswick Hospital

Born 25 September 1876 at Campbelltown, SA
Daughter of Charles Stephen HANCOCK and Martha nee SIMS
Married 31 July 1920 at age 42 to Eustace Coultra Sheppard LINDSAY at Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide
Died 08 November 1959 at Springbank, SA
Aged 83 years
Resided Highgate, SA

State Library of South Australia B 26285/200

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WAR SERVICES REWARDED.

At Keswick Military Hospital on Tuesday afternoon two sides of a square of troops, and one side of army nurses and V.A.D.'s were drawn up to witness the presentation by His Excellency the Governor of the Military Cross to Mr. T.G. Pitman, father, of Lieut Talbert Lawrence Pitman, of the 44th Battalion, A.I.F., who achieved the distinction for conspicuous' gallantry and devotion to duty. As battalion signalling officer he displayed the utmost courage and perseverance in maintaining communication under circumstances of the greatest difficulty, although, his lines were constantly severed, and his station destroyed by shell fire. He materially aided his battalion in a successful operation against thee enemy. The lieutenant- was killed in action in France.  The Red Royal Cross (second class) was pinned on the breast of Matron A. M. Hancock (of the Royal Red Cross), who joined the army nursing service of the Australian Military Forces on April 10,1907.  On November 21, 1914, she was appointed principal, matron of the 4th Military, District, and she retained that position until she was appointed matron of the 1st Australian Stationary Hospital (now No. 7 Australian General Hospital) on July 17, 1913. On the acceptance of Matron E. R. Uren for service overseas, Matron Hancock was appointed acting principal matron on April 23, 1917, in addition to her duties as matron of No. 7 Australian General Hospital.

The Register Wednesday 28 August 1918 page 7
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Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 28
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1951, position 1

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Presentation of the RRC 2nd Class at Keswick Military Hospital

HANCOCK, Laura

Staff Nurse
AANS


Born 1880 at Sale, Vic.
Daughter of Robert HANCOCK and Emma nee HOLLINGDALE
Of 'Stromness' Althorpe  Place, Glenelg, SA
Nurse at Broken Hill District Hospital
Enlisted 07 June 1917 at Keswick aged 33 years 8 months
Embarked 14 July 1917
Served in Salonika and Egypt
Returned to Australia per 'Wiltshire' 03 October 1918
Appointment terminated 28 June 1919
Did not marry
Died 22 January 1965 in Vic.
Resided Melbourne, Vic.
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At Broken Hill three ladies, Nurses Enid (daughter of Alderman Dr. Booth) and Laura Hancock of the Broken Hill Hospital and Miss Lynette Sadler, who wish to serve in the war as nurses, have volunteered for the Expeditionary force.

Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail Saturday 15 August 1914 page 2

HANDLEY, Jane Perry

Nurse
Mrs. Hurry Whitney's American Hospital, France

Born 1877 in Rockhampton, Qld.
Daughter of Samuel Heeley HANDLEY and Mary de Vis STOCKER
Prior to the war she was in charge of a large hospital in USA. 
She did not marry 
Died in Paris 16 April 1937
AN AUSTRALIAN NURSE.

Nurse Perry Handley, sister of Mrs. (Dr.) Connor, for some time on the staff of the Lismore Hospital, and afterwards superintendent of one of the largest American hospitals, is in France in charge of the surgical staff of the hospital of a wealthy American lady. In the last letter received, which was written in Paris, she tells how they were in hospital working very hard preparing surglcal dressings for the front for a month's work. They did not know what moment they would start or what their destination would be. Every evening the nurses attended French classes and only French was spoken everywhere.  They were getting quite fluent. Among other news she said that in one ward of the hospital there were 500 British wounded, and on the whole they were very cheerful. There was, she said, no shortage of food in Paris, and the nurses' quarters were particularly comfortable, and the nearest to home cooking of food it could possibly be.

Northern Star Wednesday 20 January 1915 page 5
 
IN FRANCE.
AUSTRALIAN NURSE'S EXPERIENCE.


In a letter to her brother, Dr. F. G. Connor, of Chatswood, Nurse Perry Handley(now superintendent of the American Hospital at Juilly, France, but formerly of Little Bay Hospital) says:-From Monday morning to Wednesday morning we were at the operating table without one minute's rest; and with scarcely time even for a cup of tea. The patients were lying on stretchers in the court-yards, receiving-rooms, corridors, and on the floor by the operating room. They were all worn out, and many slept for two days without rousing up, except when the nurses disturbed them for food.  At the end of the first week all the operating staff-three nurses and one orderly-collapsed, and I was left alone. I managed to struggle along for two days longer, and keep ahead of the enormous demands, and then help came from Paris. As soon as the extra nurses arrived my strength gave way, and I was in bed two days - just physical fatigue. ' But the rush was over. I feel it is a privilege to be able to do one's small part.

The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 23 August 1915 page 10

AUSTRALIAN 
NURSE.

Brilliant Career 
Abroad.

MiSS J. PERRY HANDLEY, news of whose sudden death In Paris on April 16 recently reached Sydney, had a remarkable career.  

Trained at the Lismore General Hospital and the Coast Hospital, Sydney, Miss Handley went for special studies to San Francisco and to the famous Mayo Clinic at Cleveland.  At the outbreak of war she was at New York Women's Hospital, and, volunteering at once for active service, she was sent to France with Mrs. Hurry Whitney's American Hospital. At the end of the War in France, Miss Handley was sent to Poland In charge of a huge hospital there, which, on the approach of Russian revolutionaries, she had to evacuate completely in two hours. She then went to Serbia on reconstruction work, at which she remained for some years,

Decorated by Governments.


AFTER a visit to her relatives In Australia, Miss Handley was asked to go to the  American Hospital in Paris, of which she was made superintendent, and where she was working at the time of her death. The Governments of Great Britain, France, Poland, and Serbia all awarded Miss Handley decorations for her service, the French decoration being "With Palms."

Her villa at Neuilly, near Paris, was a centre for Australians In Paris, especially for Australian nurses and students from the American Hospital. Her warm-hearted Australian hospitality there is remembered by many.

Miss Handley became an authority on the lesser known French provincial towns, and was a keen collector of antique French furniture.

Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 06 May 1937 page 22


HANDS, May Elizabeth

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born Cooma, NSW
Daughter of Mary Annie HANDS
Enlisted 24 July 1915
Embarked 31 July 1915 per “Orontes”
Duty on Transport ship “Nestor” from Suez to Australia
Appointment terminated 28 March 1916


HANLY, Gertrude Grace

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1878 at Stuart Town, NSW
Daughter of Michael Redmond HANLY and Kathleen Mary nee TREEHY
Age 39 years
Enlisted 09 July 1917
Embarked 13 September 1917 in Melbourne per “Runic”
Service Egypt and Salonika
Returned to Australia 12 July 1919 per “City of Exeter” On Duty
Appointment terminated 25 September 1919
Did not marry
Died 31 December 1964 in Ryde, NSW

HANNAM, Alice Maud

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1886 at Yass, NSW
Daughter of William HANNAM and Eliza Matilda nee BARBER
Age 30 years
Training Coast Hospital
Enlisted 10 May 1917
Embarked 12 June 1917 in Melbourne per “Mooltan”
Service in Salonika
Contracted Influenza September 1918
Returned to Australia 03 July 1919 per “Prinz Hubertus”
Appointment terminated 26 September 1919
Married Donald MacRae MacGREGOR
Died 23 April 1969
​Late of Armadale, Vic.
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HARDCASTLE, Lavinia Amelia

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 15 September 1888 in Engelsburg, Qld.
Daughter of William Bradshaw HARDCASTLE abd Louisa Mary Ann nee LEVER
Age 28 years
Enlisted 06 May 1917
Embarked 09 June 1917 in Sydney per “Mooltan”
Service in Salonika
Contracted Malaria August 1918
Returned to Australia 18 July 1919
Appointment Terminated 30 November 1919
“Sister entitled to extra leave having been a witness on the “Bahia Castle” Royal Commission”
Termination amended to 08 December 1919
Did not marry
Died 1965 in Qld.

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HARDEN, Katherine Louise

Staff Nurse
AANS
Hospital Transport Corps 'Kanowna'

Born 1877 at Brisbane, Qld.
Daughter of George HARDEN and Eliza nee REVELL
Sister of Susan Usher HARDEN
Age 37 years
Training Whangaree Hospital New Zealand
Enlisted 19 August 1915
Embarked 29 March 1916 per “Kanowna”
Service on Hospital Ship “Kanowna” throughout the war
Brief service in England between transports
Returned to Australia 25 May 1918 per “Kanowna”
Resigned Appointment for family reasons 31 May 1918
Did not marry
Died 1968 in Qld.
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HARDIE, Ada Mary

Sister
AANS

Born 02 August 1884 at Geelong, Vic.
Daughter of Alexander HARDIE and Emily nee JOSE
Of 'Corio' Maffra, Vic.
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Aged 32 years
Trained at Children's Hospital 3 years
Enlisted 18 June 1917
Embarked 30 June 1917 in Melbourne per 'Somali'
Disembarked Bombay 30 July 1917
Posted Victoria War Hospital Bombay 30 July 1917
Transferred to Colaba War Hospital Colaba 14 August 1917
Transferred to H S 'Ellora for temporary duty 09 December 1917
Transferred to Gerrard Freeman Thomas Hospital Bombay 19 July 1918
Transferred to Station Hospital Murree 30 August 1918
Transferred to Station Hospital Rawalpindi 30 November 1918
Promoted to Sister Gharial 30 June 1919
Transferred to Bombay and embarked for England 15 October 1919 per 'Frederich August'
Returned to Australia 31 March 1920 per 'Wahehe'
Did not marry
Died 08 August 1946 at Private Hospital, East Melbourne, Vic.
Resided 'Hollywells' 9 Cobden Street, Caulfield, Vic.
Aged 62 years
Buried Maffra Cemetery Presbyterian Section 1 Plot 18

Courtesy of Linda Barraclough
Photograph of her "box", which I purchased about 20 years ago at auction of her nephew's effects at Maffra. It is on permanent loan to the Gippsland Armed Forces Museum at West Sale. It also contained an extremely heavy canvas sleeping bag that could not be identified as army issue, and had a sticker on it from Raffles Hotel.


Headstone photograph courtesy of Leanne Phillips
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HARDIE, Maude Margaret

Sister/Charge Sister
AANS

Born 03 June 1886 at Maffra, Vic.
Daughter of Alexander HARDIE and Emily nee JOSE
Of 'Corio' Maffra, Vic.
Age 29 years
Enlisted 28 July 1915
Embarked 04 August 1915
Service Lemnos, Egypt, England, France and on the field
Returned to Australia 15 February 1918 per “Llandstephen Castle”
Re-embarked 16 October 1918 per “Malta” as Sister
Service in India
Promoted Charge Sister 20 April 1919
Returned to Australia 11 January 1920 per “Charon”
Appointment terminated 08 October 1920
Married David John Meiklejohn CLYNE
Died 06 July 1945 in Caulfield, Melbourne, Vic.
Buried Maffra Cemetery Presbyterian Section 2 Plot 15

Headstone photograph courtesy of Leanne Phillips
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MRS. D. CLYNE
The death occurred in Melbourne on Friday of Mrs. Maud Clyne, relict of the late Mr. David Clyne, of "Greenvale,'" Newry. Deceased was the second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hardie, of Maffra, and was born in Maffra. In World War 1 she served as a nurse overseas. She had a large circle of friends in the Maffra district. The interment will take place at Maffra today.

Gippsland Times Monday 09 July 1945 page 1

HARDING, Alice E B

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born Alice Elizabeth Branch HARDING 13 January 1869 in Qld.
Daughter of Edward John Branch HARDING and Hannah nee WATTS
Sister of Barbara NEWTON
Address “Alington” Cree St. Euroa. Vic
Age 48 years
Enlisted 18 June 1917
Embarked 30 June 1917 per “Somali” at Melbourne
Service in Bombay
Returned to Australia per “City of Cairo” 28 December 1919
Appointment Terminated 01 June 1919
Alice worked for the  China Inland Mission in China and she returned there after the war for a time.
Died 19 July 1958 in Brighton, Vic.
​Resided Euroa, Vic.

HARDWICK, Violet Mary M (Viva)

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1884 at Mudgee, NSW
Daughter of Arthur HARDWICK and Sophia A nee BARRETT
Enlisted 31 July 1915 in Cairo, Egypt
Embarked 31 July 1915
Appointment terminated 03 October 1919
Did not marry
Died 10 August 1967 at Castle Hill, NSW

SISTER HARDWICK laid the foundations for a good beginning, any how,for she ranks with the "privileged" few who dressed the wounded under fire.  It's a long call from 1918 and the little village of Ham, in front of St. Quentin, near Pozieres, to duty in the Randwick Hospital, ministering to the broken bodies of men for whom the war still lives in all its horrors and realities.  Sister Hardwick is, perhaps, one of the few women of those far-off days left
who saw men in battle, since along with two other nurses of the 3rd Australian General Hospital, Sister Faulkiner, present whereabouts unknown, and Sister Wallace, who subsequently married and settled down in New Zealand she was attached to the 161st British Hospital behind the lines near Ham on the morning of the great German push on March 21, 1918.  From the station these women watched the thousands of Gough's ill-fated Fifth Army melt before the overwhelming fire of the German divisions that swept on their way to Paris, to meet with the stubborn resistance of the men of the A.I.F. before Villers Bretonneux.

Like many men before them had done, these women sheltered behind news-papers and empty biscuit boxes and called it the worst war they'd ever been in, and, like the Diggers they had attended, they learned that shells didn't fall in the same place twice.  Indeed, Sister Hardwick walked to the station drinking-fountain, had a drink, and returned to her companions in time to see the fountain blown to pieces by a 5.9.

And the wounded Her most vivid memory is that of having to attend to them in potato patches just outside Amiens, for there was no accommodation for anyone, and it looked as if the war might be all over in a night.

Best and Bravest

CRITICISE the Fifth Army retreat, and Sister Hardwick will take up the argument and vote the unfortunate fellows as the bravest and best imaginable, for she was able to judge of the horrors of war with a woman's mind and with a woman's understanding.  Along with Sister Hardwick, there are others of the A.I.F. who knew Egypt and the Suez Canal, and Salonika, and Mudros off the shores of the Dardanelles.

The Australian Women's Weekly Saturday 27 January 1934 page 24

HARFORD, Mary Rosa

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1881 at Penrith, NSW
Daughter of Thomas Joseph HARFORD and Eliza Jane nee CORRY
Sister of June HARFORD
Age 34 years
Enlisted 08 October 1915 in Sydney, NSW
Embarked 19 October 1915 in Sydney per “Orosova”
Service in Egypt, England and France
Returned to Australia 21 April 1918 per “Suevic”
Appointment terminated 21 June 1918
Did not marry
Died 22 July 1964 in NSW
Aged 83 years
​Late of Marrickville, NSW
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Obtaining discharge from the AIF 21 June 1918 then went to America with her friend Catherine Adaway, to nurse in various hospitals - Vancouver (Military Hospital nursing patients from the US Army), Seattle, Portland (Oregon) Chicago and New York.  Returned to California where she took up private engagements.

Photograph courtesy of Pauline - ancestry.com

HARGREAVE(S), Ethel Mary (Effie) (standing second from right)

Sister
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve


Born 1883 in Kyneton, Vic.
Daughter of Willam Lupton HARGREAVE and Anna Maria nee CAIN
of 38 Burnett St., St. Kilda, Melbourne, Vic.
Embarked from Australia 21 April 1915
Arrived in UK 26 May 1915
Embarked for France 09 June 1915
Posted to No 3 General Hospital
"Staff Nurse Hargreave has given every satisfaction as regards work and conduct while here.  Her only fault has been that she is not sufficiently strict with orderlies, but she has improved in that respect.  She has been a good worker and a pleasant member of the Sisters' Mess when off duty.'
Posted to 10 Ambulance Train 08 December 1915
Posted to Abbeville 26 May 1916
Posted to 6 General Hospital 01 June 1916
Posted to St. Andrew 09 June 1916
Posted to Havre 28 December 1916
Posted to 13 General Hospital 16 April 1917
Resigned 10 June 1917 - Required at home for urgent family reasons -at completion of contract
Proceed to Melbourne via New York and Vancouver on a Government Steamer leaving Southampton on 2  September 1918
Married Harry Edgar COBB in 1920
Died 21 June 1955 in Elwood, Vic.
Buried Springvale Botanical Cemetery Pittosporum Wall 2AA Niche 465

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A NURSE'S STORY

AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN THE WAR.

LIFE IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

Among the nurses recently returned to Australia is Miss Effie Hargreave, a Victorian, who has been attached to the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Miss Hargreave has seen much hard work in England and in France, and the following is her account of her experiences on duty as a nursing sister : --
'First, I went to St. Omer, In Northern France' stated Miss Hargreave.  'There I nursed Belgian refugees at a convent set in a delightful, old fashioned garden.  St. Omer was general headquarters, so I had the privilege of seeing many distinguished persons at close quarters.  The Prince of Wales, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the late Lord Kitchener, Sir William Robertson, and many others came to this centre.  Once I dropped my prayer book in church and one of these military leaders restored it to me.

'It was at St. Omer that I had my first experience of an air raid.  I remember one sunny June morning watching an air fight against a Taube.  As many as twenty shells were bursting simultaneously.  Later the Taube was brought down at Cassels, which was within firing of the long distance guns from Ypres.

'Then I passed on to a hospital containing 1000 beds, Le Trepott, a quaint seaside village.  The hospital was high up on the cliffs, overlooking the bay, which was always crowded with quaint looking fishing smacks showing small blue waves.  The patients loved the warm sunshine and the picturesque surroundings after spending months in the trenches.

On an Ambulance Train

'Looking after the wounded on an ambulance train was my next experience of military duty.  The train ran from Remy, near Popernge to Pata.  At times we were so near the firing line that the vibration of the guns made the train windows rattle.   On some occasions it cracked the glass.  There was one trip when we all had headaches for days through gas fumes reaching us.  There were no corridor carriages to the ambulance train, and while the train was travelling the only way to reach a patient in another compartment was to walk along the footboard.  Often we walked from one end of the train to the other like this to give a patient nourishment.  Some times the old peasant women working in the fields would throw up their hands and shout out 'Mot Dieu, mademouselle'.  One day I was making my way along the footboard to reach a soldier that was in a very bad way, when a train loaded with had dashed past in the opposite direction.  I saved my ???? which contained a bottle of strong coffee ????, some brandy and a little ???? ????, but I lost my cap and presented a very untidy appearance when I reached my patient.  I had to make a toilet towel do duty for the regulation cap until I was able to reach my travelling kit.

Pathetic Incidents

'Often we used to load up in sleet and snow at 5 am and remain on duty many hours.  The soldiers were wonderful. Their cheerfulness, pluck and endurance are things never to be forgotten.  Some of them were so emaciated that they could make themselves comfortable by using one of the hat racks for a bed.  One of the most pathetic cases I encountered was that of a young boy, who had been for weeks and weeks burying the dead and collecting the discs for identification purposes.  His nerves had gone to pieces and what seemed to distress him most of all was the fact that so many of his dead comrades had gone into action without their identification discs, and he could not convince the officer in charge of the fact.  There was a young American, twenty years of age, lying on one of the hat racks, who said to me 'Don't bother about me, the chap below is worse'  A few minutes later he was dead.  I can always see his wistful little face, when he first boarded the train and said ' Think there is any chance for me Sister?'  These are only some of the incidents - incidents that I shall never be able to forget.

We ran into about twelve air raids while on the train.  We carried many Indian troops, who were never any trouble as they had their own orderlies who did everything for them.  On nearly every trip we brought back German prisoners.  The French people were most kind to be on these train trips, providing us with flowers, fruit and bowls of black coffee.

Nerve-Racking Experiences

'From the ambulance unit I was drafted to a hospital ship in the French Channel, provided for the Somme push.  Some days we did two trips in twenty four hours.  To me it was the most terrifying experience of all my war service.  Twice through the fog we ran into other ships.  We crossed the Channel the night the German raiders were there.  A submarine let us pass but sand a troopship that was folllowing close behind us.  Once a Submarine (a mine layer) came up about forty yards away from our ship.  I was sitting on the deck with some patients when it appeared.  You can imagine how we felt when suddenly a horrid square jawed unshaven face appeared in the cotting tower.  He stared at us for a minute and then submerged.

No Luxuries for Germans

'On one of these Channel trips I had for a patient a man from North Country regiment who had been most cruelly treated when a prisoner of Germany.  He wept as he told of his treatment at the hands of the enemy.  That determined me that I would do my duty toward German prisoners, but would not give them any luxuries.  The first German I met latter coming to the decision was an officer who was furious with be because I refused to give him chocolate and boxed sweets from the collection I was distributing.  I told him that he had been given three good meals and that he was not entitled to luxuries after the way his comrades had treated our prisoners.  I never extended any little extra kindness to the German prisoners after the British soldier's story of German calousness.

The Farmer and Settler Tuesday 11 February 1919 page 8

HARNETT, Jessie Eleanor

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1882 at Adaminaby, NSW
Daughter of John Joseph HARNETT and Fanny Anne nee BOWLER
Age 34 years
Enlisted 16 July 1917
Embarked 13 September 1917 in Sydney per “Runic”
Service Egypt and Salonika
Returned to Australia 22 August 1919 per “Anchises”
Appointment terminated 12 November 1919
Died 19 June 1957 at Capetown in South Africa
Late of Eucumbene, Monaro

HARPER, Annie Agnes

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1886 in Kyneton, Vic.
Daughter of Sedgewick HARPER and Martha nee GRAHAM
Age 27 years
Enlisted 13 May 1915
Embarked 20 May 1915 per “Mooltan”
Service Egypt and France
Promoted to Sister 01 September 1917
Resigned appointment in UK 18 September 1917 due to marriage
Married 21 September 1917 Bertie Charles HANDLEY


HARRINGTON, Dorothy

Probationary Nurse
AANS

Born 05 July 1890 at Mount Barker, SA
Daughter of Thomas Benjamin HARRINGTON and Emily Mary nee TRAPMANN
Of Adelaide SA
Age 25 years
Enlisted 14 December 1915
Embarked “Kanowna”  on 22 December 1915
Appointment Terminated 01 April 1916
Married Alexander MESTON on  1 December 1923 in Colombo, Ceylon.  
She had a son born in Adelaide in 1924 while another son was born in Scotland in 1927.  
Her husband died in South Africa in 1972

HARRIS, Fanny May

Sister
Australian Red Cross

Born in Maryborough, Victoria in 1892.  
Daughter of Archdeacon Charles HARRIS and Fanny nee COVE
Fanny was known as May by her family.  
Embarked for France per 'Kanowna' 04 July 1916 from NSW
She was a Bluebird with the Australian Red Cross.  
She was decorated with the Order of Palme de Vermeil
Returning to Australia per 'Anchises' embarked 28 February 1919
Did not marry 
Died in 06 June 1964 in Gordon, NSW
​Formerly of Chatswood, NSW

Part of a party of twenty Australian Red Cross nurses, sponsored by the NSW Jockey Club, and know as the 'Bluebirds' because of their blue uniforms.
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HARRIS, Ida Sarah

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 18 October 1886 at Mitchell, Qld
Daughter of Benjamin Thomas HARRIS and Rosina nee PACKINBOUGH
Sister to Maud HARRIS
Address Mitchell Qld
Age 31 years
Enlisted 08 November 1917
Embarked 16 November 1917 per “Canberra” at Sydney
Service in India
Contracted Malaria in October 1918
Promoted to Sister 07 November 1919
Returned to Australia per “Mataram” 16 December 1919
Appointment Terminated 05 February 1920
Did not marry
Died 02 February 1964 in Qld.
Aged 78 years
Buried Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens Columbarium 9 Section 21
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HARRIS, Lilian Gladie

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1888 in Waratah, Tasmania
Daughter of William HARRIS and Catherine Eliza nee COONEY
Of Fremantle WA
Age 29 years
Enlisted 31 March 1917 at Austin Ferry, Tas
Embarked 12 June 1917 at Melbourne per “Mooltan”
Service in Salonika
Promoted to Sister
Participated in Massaging Course in England 01 March 1919 to 01 November 1919
Returned to Australia per “Ceramic” 12 March 1920
Appointment Terminated 02 July 1920
Did not marry
Died 22 March 1969 in Perth, WA
Aged 80 years
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Crematorium Rose Gardens Site 1 Pos 0047A

HARRISON, Jane

Sister
AANS

Born 1879 at Virginia, Cavan, Ireland
Age 35 years
Enlisted 14 June 1915
Embarked 14 July 1915 per “Karoola”
Initially given transport duty, but was found to get sea-sick
Service Egypt and England
Promoted to Sister 01 October 1918
Ill with Gasto 1915 then Influenza, Bronchitis and Measles March 1917
Returned to Australia 28 August 1919 per “Kanowna”
Appointment terminated 20 March 1920


HARROD, Alice Mabel Valentine

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 14 February 1881 at Kingsborough, Qld
Daughter of George HARROD and Mary Myles nee McDONALD
Address Roseleigh St, Eagle Junction, Brisbane, Qld.
Age 36 years
Enlisted 08 November 1917
Embarked 16 November 1917 per “Canberra” at Sydney
Service in India
Contracted Influenza October 1918
Promoted to Sister 07 November 1919
Returned to Australia per “Plassy” 01 October 1919
Appointment Terminated 30 November 1919
Did not marry
Died 1963 in Qld.

HART, Anne Kidd

Staff Nurse / Sister / Head Sister / Temp. Matron
AANS

Born 1875 at Mt Macedon, Vic
Daughter of Joseph Adolphus HART and Annie nee KIDD
Sister of Ethel HART, Matron of Foundling Hospital, Melbourne
Age 37 years
Training Melbourne Hospital
Enlisted 03 November 1914
Embarked 28 November 1914
Service Egypt, France and England
Ill with Dysentery January 1916
Promoted to Sister 07 October 1916
Promoted Head Sister 24 January 1917
Temporary Matron whilst in France
Returned to Australia 04 July 1919 per “Norman” In Charge
Appointment terminated 01 December 1919
Did not marry
Died 17 December 1937
Cremated and remains scattered at Springvale Necropolis Cemetery

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Weekly Times, Saturday 19 May 1917 page 10

DECORATION WON
Early this year it was announced that several Victorian nurses had been awarded the Royal Red Cross decoration. Last week another list of nurses who have scored this honor was gazetted; among Victorians mentioned is Miss Annie Kidd Hart, a trainee of the Melbourne Hospital. She left with the first nursing unit, and was on duty in Egypt until last January, when she was called to London for military duty, Miss Hart is now night sister at Dartford, Kent. She is a relative of Mrs P. P. Cook, "Lindfield," Mernda road, Malvern.

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Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 32
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1952, position 3

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Mentioned in Despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 880, position 91
Date of London Gazette: 31 December 1918
Location in London Gazette: Page 15230, position 23


Mentioned in Sir Gouglas Haig's Despatches of 08 November 1918

The death has occurred of Miss Ann Kidd Hart who left Melbourne on the first hospital ship the Kyarra in 1914 and was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her  work on active service. After the war she was to charge of the Repatriation Hospital at Randwick (NSW). She had been living with her sister (Mrs P.P. Cook)  in Mernda road Malvern.

The Argus Friday 24 December 1937 page 2

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Punch Thursday 03 December 1914 page 26
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HART, Esther

Sister
AANS

Born 1881 in Malvern, Vic
Daughter of Joseph HART and Margaret nee STANEY
Age 34 years
Training Austin Hospital
Enlisted 29 March 1915
Embarked 10 April 1915
Transport duty on “Wandilla” from Suez to Australia and return
Service Egypt then No 1 Casualty Clearing Station France
Promoted to Sister 03 April 1917
Returned to Australia 02 April 1919 per “Benella”
Appointment terminated 09 August 1919
Did not marry
Died 24 January 1959 in Malvern, Vic.
Resided Malvern, Vic.
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Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 15 September 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1372, position 12
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 6842, position 5


HART, Gladys Mary

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 16 November 1888 at Lubeck, Vic
Daughter of Robert HART and Priscilla Elizabeth nee MOORE
Address “Netherleigh” Murray River, SA
Age 29 years
Training 4 years Wagga Wagga Hospital
Enlisted 19 July 1917
Embarked 31 August 1917 per “Wiltshire” at Sydney
Service in Salonika and England
Returned to Australia per “” 18 August 1919
Appointment Terminated 22 October 1919
Married John Eustice DARBY
Died 20 April 1967 in Adelaide, SA
Aged 74 years
Buried Centennial Park Cemetery North East Tree 006B 001

HART, Janett Anne

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born Janette Anne McLEISH 1878 at Yea, Vic
Daughter of Mr. George McLEISH and Eliza nee McINTOSH
Address Strath Creek,  Vic
Age 34 years - Widow - Married Henry Wyley HART in 1904 and he died in 1910
Training Wagga Wagga Hospital
Enlisted 14 October 1918
Embarked 16 October 1918 per “Malta” at Sydney
Service in Egypt
Returned to Australia per “Essex” 18 June 1919
Appointment Terminated 18 August 1919
Died 1963 in Kew, Vic.
Aged 85 years
Buried 25 June 1963  Boroondara General Cemetery Pres B 0746A


HART, Julia Mary 

Sister
AANS

Born 02 July 1885 at Charters Towers, Qld
Sister of Patrick Joseph HARTE and Catherine nee O'HALLORAN
Age 29 years
Enlisted 21 September 1914
Embarked 19 October 1914 per “Omrah
Duty on Transport ship “Wandilla” from Suez to Australia
Returned in duty on transport ship “Ulysses
Service Egypt, England, France and Italy
Contracted Influenza November 1918
Promoted to Head Sister 13 July 1919
Returned to Australia 05 March 1919 per “Nevasa” In Charge
Appointment Terminated 30 June 1919
Did not marry
Died 04 June 1969 in Coogee, NSW
Formerly of Brisbane and Perth
​Aged 83 years
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Mentioned in Sir Herbert CO Plumer GCB GCMG GCVO ADC Despatches  for distinguished and gallant service and devotion to duty.
London Gazette, 3rd Supplement No 30711 dated 30 November 1918
Commonwealth Gazette No 175 dated 07 November 1918

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Awarded Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 891, position 38
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 67, position 1

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Women also Serve..  

THREE LAST-WAR SISTERS still on military duty, watching old AIF. men making basket ware. L. to R.: Matron J. M. Hart, Sub matron E. J. Garvin. and Sister E. M. Behrens.

Sisters of last war still nursing soldiers
No other women in Australia could be more envious of the nurses who are going overseas with the Australian forces than thirty-two busy, cheerful women at Randwick Military Hospital.
All of them, including the matron and sub-matron, were war nurses during the last war, and many of them have been tending the illnesses and injuries of soldiers ever since.
Many of them served in advanced hospitals near the battlefront and know at first hand the horrors and heart-breaks of war, but all of them say, "We'd love to be going again."
All of them are extremely reticent about their experiences. "It was all part of our job," they say,"we don't want to talk about it."
Matron J. M. Hart, who was appointed matron at Randwick fouryears ago, is a Queenslander. She went on war service in 1914 straight from Brisbane General Hospital,where she did her training, and served in Egypt, France, Italy and England.
At the end of the war she was awarded the Royal Red Cross.
She was in charge of the Repatriation Hospital in Brisbane until she came to Sydney.
As well as members of the old A.I.F., these nurses are also looking after members of the new AIF., the Air Force, and the Navy.
"They're much the same as theirfathers and uncles," said MatronHart. "They're all very good kids,and on the whole are very wellbehaved patients.
"This is a very happy place. So many of ourselves and our patients have been here for a long time, andwe are like a friendly family. Our old patients are so cheerful that they are a lesson to us in patience and good spirits."

The Australian Women's Weekly Saturday 07 December 1940 page 23 (Abridged)

HART, M G

Staff Nurse
AANS

Enlisted 19 July 1917
Embarked 31 August 1917
Appointment terminated 22 October 1919

HARTE, Florence Eva

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1874 at Ballarat East, Vic
Sister to Mrs. BARNETT
Address “East Neuk” Studley Rd, Melbourne, Vic.
Trained at the Homeopathic Hospital; graduated June 1904.
Age 39 years
Enlisted 22 August 1916
Embarked 06 December 1916 per “Orsova” at Melbourne
Service in France and England
Promoted to Sister 31 December 1919
Returned to Australia per “Kashmir” 09 March 1919
Appointment Terminated 21 June 1919
Marriage to James BELL  28 September 1923
12 Oct 1928 – address: 23 Athelstan Road Camberwell - Registered nurse - added to Supplementary register of Nurses as Florence Eva Bell (nee Harte); reg. no. 3123. REF: Vic Govt Gazette.
Resided 23 Athelstan Road, South Camberwell, Vic.
Died 01 March 1953 at Heidelberg, Vic.
Buried Box Hill Cemetery M 022B 0055


HARTE, Katherine

Sister
AANS

Born 16 February 1878 at Charters Towers, Qld.
Daughter of Joseph Patrick HARTE and Mary Catherine nee O'HALLORAN
Age 37
Enlisted 01 October 1915
Embarked 08 October 1915
Duty on transport ships from Suez/Bombay/Australia
Ships “Ulysses” “Wandilla” “Orsova” “Malwa” and “Neuralia”
Service in Salonika
Contracted Influenza May 1916
Promoted to Sister 15 June 1917
Returned to Australia 07 February 1919 per “Lancashire” On Duty
Appointment terminated 19 February 1920
Did not marry
Died 1959 in Perth, WA
Aged 81 years

HARTRICK, Adelaide Louisa

Sister
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve


Daughter of John Standish and Florence HARTRICK
Of 59 Murray Street, Elsternwick, Melbourne, Vic.
Enlisted 22 January 1915 at Mena House, Cairo, Egypt
Embarked for Bombay 22 August 1917
Disembarked Basrah and posted to No 3 British General Hospital 31 August 1917
Admitted to hospital 12 September 1917
Discharged to duty 21 September 1917
Admitted to hospital 09 December 1917
Reported seriously ill with Dysentery in Basrah 11 December 1917
Proceeded on sea voyage to India 6 January 1918
Returned to Basrah 24 January 1918
Proceeded to India 07 July 1918 on leave
Returned from leave  and rejoined 3rd British General Hospital 30 August 1918
Admitted to hospital 05 October 1918
Discharged from hospital 08 October 1918
Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class in recognition of valuable services with the British Forces - Mesopotamia Gazette 30865 26 August 1918
Mentioned in despatches by Lt. General W.R. MARSHALL in his despatch Gazette  30867 dated 15 April 1918
Duty at War Hospital, Croydon, London, England 29 January 1919
Duty at  Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley 15 May 1919 - pay rate of £85 p.a.
Embarked for Australia 20 March 1920 per 'Ormonde'
Served a total of 4 years 194 days
Contact terminated 25 April 1920 for demobilisation
Did not marry
Resided 23 Hoddle Street, Elsternwick, Melbourne, Vic.
Died 04 April 1944
Buried Springvale Botanical Cemetery Agonis Bed 38 Rose 12
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Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
In recognition of valuable services with the British Forces
Mesopotamia Gazette 30865
26 August 1918


HARTRIDGE, Alice

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 22 November 1888 at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England
Daughter of Frank HARTRIDGE and Ellen nee OLIVER
Of 102 Gheringhap St., Geelong, Vic.
Age 28 years
Training Homeopathic Hospital, Melbourne
Enlisted 10 July 1917
Embarked 31 August 1917 in Sydney per “Wiltshire”
Service in Salonika
Valvular Disease of the Heart - Severe admitted to 19 General Hospital 31 May 1918
Returned to Australia 22 July 1918 per “Kanowna”
Discharged as medically unfit (heart condition) 18 February 1919
Did not marry
Died 26 March 1986
Buried Buried Box Hill Cemetery M 022B 0055.
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A WAR NURSE.

There arrived in Ballarat on Tuesday night on the train from Bendigo one of the pluckiest little women whoever fell a victim to the war. This is Nurse Hartridge, who is not a stranger to Ballarat. She is repeating previous visits to the Novar Hospital as a guest of the Red Cross Society and will stay there for some time. Nurse Hartridge was wounded in France in  1917 when the hospital in which she was working was shelled and since then she has been a cot case and will remain so until the end. But she is wonderfully brave and cheerful and visits the various Red Cross hospitals and stays in one day after another and is always welcome. On Tuesday night she was met by Miss Bessie McDonald and a kindly local firm having lent a motor van, she was lifted, bed and all, out of the railway car in which she had made the long journey and, with the nurses in charge, was  taken to Novar where, despite the fact that the hospital is carrying a full quota of patients, room was found for her. The railwaymen lent ready and sympathetic aid in conveying her from  the train to the van and Nurse Hartridge, despite her permanent injury, bore the handling with her usual cheer and courage. She is looking forward to an enjoyable holiday in Ballarat where she is well known, especially to Diggers.

The Horsham Times Friday 02 November 1928 page 12
IN COT SINCE WAR 

Confined to her bed since the war, in which she was injured when a 
Red Cross hospital was bombed,  Sister Hartridge, of Ballarat, Victoria, is again able to walk. Her recovery is regarded as a miracle, for she was once pronounced a hopeless case. She is shown outside Novar Red Cross Hospital, Ballarat.

News Monday 12 August 1929 page 5

HARVEY

Amongst the Australian nurses in England who have offered their services during the  war  are  Nurse  Bruton, Nurse Harvey and Nurse Colman, all of Western Australia. 

Sunday Times 04 October 1914 page 29

HARVEY, Ada Irene

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1890 in Sydney, NSW
Daughter of James Jabez HARVEY and Mary Elizabeth nee ANDERSON
Age 27 years
Enlisted 24 May 1917
Embarked 12 June 1917 in Melbourne per “Mooltan”
Resigned appointment due to marriage 06 February 1918
Married Ernest Denny Logie DANSON (Bishop of Laubuan and Sarawak) living in Kuching, Sarawak
He was later Bishop of Edinburgh and later Primus of Scotland.  
He died in Scotland in 1946 and at some after that Ada returned to Australia.  
She died 2 September 1965 in NSW
Aged 75 years
​Lae of Parramatta, NSW
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HARVEY, Jane France (BRENNAN)

Staff Nurse
AANS

Enlisted 07 November 1918

HARVEY, Kathleen

Staff Nurse
British India Nursing Service


Born 1886 in Terang, Vic.
Daughter of Joseph and Sarah HARVEY
Of Bayne Street, Terang, Vic.
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Trained at St. Vincent's Hospital
Enlisted 27 February 1918 in Melbourne, Vic.
Embarked from Melbourne 07 March 1918 per 'Ormonde'
Disembarked at Bombay India 26 March 1918
Posted to Gerard Freeman Thomas War Hospital Bombay 16 May 1918
Embarked at Bombay for Australia per 'Pilsna' 03 August 1919
Returned to Australia 30 August 1919
​Discharged 24 October 1919
Married Gustav DILGER
May have returned to Bombay - a daughter (Joan) was born in 1920
All claimed Swiss Nationality 
Family returned to Australia
Husband Gustav died 21 November 1946 at their residence 64 Christowel Street, Camberwell, Vic.
Kathleen DILGER in 1950 in Melbourne, Vic.
Mother of Joan (Mrs. F Robilliard) Grandma of Fred, David and Margaret
Died 01 November 1950 in Vic.
​Resided Camberwell, Vic.
Buried 03 November 1950 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery Roman Catholic, Compartment D, Section 2, Grave 29

Information supplied by Margaret McIntosh

HARVEY, Margaret Annie

Sister
AANS

Born 1885 at Ingham, Qld.
Daughter of William HARVEY and Margaret nee FULTON
Age 31 years
Enlisted 13 September 1916 in Brisbane, Qld.
Embarked 16 September 1916 in Sydney per “Karoola”
Service in India
Promoted to Sister 01 October 1918
Invalided to Australia per “Orontes”
Discharged as medically unfit (pleurisy) 11 August 1919
Married Barclay Thomson WRIGHT in Boomi, NSW in 1923
Died 01 May 1985 at Pennant Hills, NSW
Aged 99 years


HARVEY, Violet Florence

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1887 at Sydney, NSW
Daughter of David Hastie HARVEY and Elizabeth nee PACKMAN
Age 29
Enlisted 16 July 1917
Embarked 31 August 1917 in Sydney per “Wiltshire”
Service in Salonika
Returned to Australia 06 August 1919 per “Militiades” On Duty
Appointment terminated 01 November 1919
Died in Hobart 13 December 1975
Aged 85 years
Buried Cornelian Bay Cemetery Methodist M 12
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HASTE, Edna Minnie

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 27 July 1892 in Rose Park, SA
Daughter of Arthur HASTE and Minnie nee ELLIOTT
Of Kensington Rd, Rose Park SA
Age 26 years
Training Adelaide University and Adelaide General Hospital
Appointed 09 November 1918
Duty at No7 AGH
Demobilized 24 January 1921
Married CORNELIUS
Died 21 May 1978
Aged 85 years
Resided Westbourne Park, SA
Cremated Centennial Park Cemetery

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HATHERLY, Anna Sophia Sarah

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 13 May 1894 at Port Augusta West, SA
Daughter of John HATHERLY and Annie Mariah nee TETHRITZ
Address “Kolinda” Mt. Byran, SA
Age 23 years
Training 4 years Burra Hospital, SA
Enlisted 13 November 1917 at Keswick, SA
Embarked 26 November 1917 per “Indarra” at Melbourne
Service in Bombay
Returned to Australia per “City of Cairo” 28 February1919
Overseas Appointment Terminated 03 March 1919
Re-appointed 01 May 1919 
Duty at Port Adelaide Isolation Hospital
Demobilized 07 July 1919
Married William Hurtle NICHOLLS
Died 14 January 1981 in Perth, WA
Aged 86 years
Resided South Perth, WA
Cremated Karrakatta Cemetery and ashes taken by Funeral Director
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HATTERSLEY, Sarah Florence

taff Nurse
AANS

Born 1872 at Grafton, NSW
Daughter of William and Mary HATTERSLEY
Age 45 years
Enlisted 13 September 1917
Embarked 09 November 1918 in Sydney per “Wiltshire”
Service in England
Requested leave without pay July to October 1919 to visit family
Contracted Pneumonia March 1920
Returned to Australia 20 May 1920
Discharged as medically unfit (age and condition) 16 October 1920
Died suddenly at her residence 35 East Esplanade, Manly on 06 March 1939


HAY, Janet

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 12 April 1884 near Harrogate, SA
Daughter of Archibald HAY and Isabella nee BROWN
Of 'The Glen', Harrogate, SA
Was working as a nurse in the Wakefield Street Private Hospital when she enlisted.
Enlisted 07 June 1917 at Keswick,  SA
Embarked from Melbourne on board Royal Mail ship 'Mooltan' on 30 June 1917
Saw service in Egypt where she contracted Malaria in June 1918 and was invalided to England.
After recovery Janet was transferred to 14th Australian General Hospital in London until cessation of hostilities.
Janet returned to Australia on board HMAT 'Karmal' and arrived on 15 August 1919.
Discharged as medically unfit 01 November 1919

Photograph Courtesy of Alan Morley
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She was the Matron and started up St Andrews Private Hospital (Adelaide) which was bought by the Presbyterian Church in 1947.  www.stand.org.au/pages/history.  
Did not marry.
She died 6 October 1977 in Adelaide 
Aged 93 years
Cremated at Centennial Park
Buried Inverbrackie Presbyterian Cemetery
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HAY, Maggie

Sister
AANS

Born 16 October 1887 at  Harrogate, SA
Daughter of Archibald HAY and Isabella nee BROWN
Of 'The Glen', Harrogate, SA
Enlisted 02 November 1918 at Keswick, SA
Aged 31 years
Embarked 09 November 1918 from Sydney per 'Wiltshire'
Served at Gharial, Lahore and Bombay
Returned to Australia 16 December 1919 per 'Charon'
Appointment terminated 11 February 1920
Did not marry
Died 04 June 1971 in Adelaide, SA
Buried Inverbrackie Presbyterian Cemetery
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HAY, Winifred Olive

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 24 October 1874 at North Adelaide, SA
Daughter of Robert HAY and Maria Grace nee BALE
Age 39 years
Enlisted 13 October 1915
Embarked November 1915 per “Orsova”
Transport duty from Suez to England
Service in Egypt, England, France and on the field
Contracted Influenza March 1916
Returned to Australia 19 April 1918 per “Orontes” On Duty
Discharged 27 May 1918 at own request
Married Dr. Joseph FOREMAN in 1928
Died 01 September 1963 in Sydney, NSW
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A quiet wedding took place yesterday morning at St. Mark's Church, Darling Point, when Dr. Joseph Foreman, the well-known surgeon who has retired from practice, and who is now interested in pastoral properties in the Monaro and western districts, was married to Sister Winifred Olive Hay. The bride was given away by Sir Jarvie Hood, and the bridegroom was attended by Mr. W. M. MacFarlane. The Rev. Canon Howard Lea officiated. Miss Jarvie Hood was the only other spectator. Dr. and Mrs. Foreman have gone on a motor trip to the country.

Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 24 May 1928 page 12

HAYES, Agnes Mary

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 1886 at Paddington, Sydney, NSW
Daughter of Arthur William HAYES and Agnes Jane nee OAKES
Age 29 years
Home service at No 4 AGH and Liverpool Field Hospital prior to o/seas enlistment
Enlisted 17 June 1916 in Sydney
Embarked 09 December 1916 per Kaiser-I-Hind
Service in Egypt, England France and on the field
Contracted Influenza June 1918
Returned to Australia 07 February per Lancashire” On Duty
Appointment terminated 03 May 1919
Died 05 mAY 1955 in Nottingham England in 1955
Aged 68 years

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HAYES, Blanche Mary

Sister
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve


Enlisted 14 May 191
UK 05 June 1915
Embarked for Egypt 14 June 1915
Posted to 19 General Hospital 15 June 1915
Posted for duty on 'Braemar Castle' 27 April 1916
Served on hospital ships 'Grantully Castle' 'Aquitania' Dunluce Castle'
Joined for duty 27 General Hospital, Cairo,  08 March 1917
Admitted to 31 General Hospital 15 October 1918
Rejoined 27 General Hospital for duty 10 November 1918
Demobilised in Egypt
Embarked 'Kildonian Castle' for Australia 02 April 1919
Termination of Service 05 May 1919 at completion of contract


HAYES, Marguerite

Sister
AANS

Born 1882 in Winchelsea, Vic.
Daughter of Edmund Archibald HAYES and Sophia nee LOVELL
Age 30 years
Training Melbourne Children’s Hospital
Enlisted 23 February 1915
Embarked 23 May 1915
Service Convalescent Depot Harefield Park, London
Invalided to Australia (post operative infection) 22 April 1916 per “Suevic”
Discharged as medically unfit 23 May 1917
After recovery transferred to Nurses Convalescent Home, Geelong as Head Sister by 1921
Did not marry
Died 04 March 1980 in Brighton, Vic.
Resided Brighton, Vic.
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​Studio portrait of the matron and four sisters of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) stationed at No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1AAH). Seated (front left) is Matron Ethel Gray. The other nurses are Sisters Laura Cumming Pratt; Emily Mills; Helena Chadwick and Marguerite Hayes (Centre), exact positions unknown. Absent was Ruby Gourlay Kidd who was ill in hospital. They left Australia aboard the Osterley to prepare for the opening of 1AAH on 4 June 1915.


HAYES, Mary

Sister
AANS


Born Staffordshire, England
Next of kin Annie GREGORY (Sister)
Of 150 Chelmsford Road, North Perth, WA
Trained at Fremantle General Hospital
Enlisted 24 May 1915
Aged 31 years
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Embarked 23 May 1915
Invalided to Australia 13 December 1915 per 'Wandilla' from Suez
Embarked for Egypt 09 March 1916
Served in France
Returned to Australia 15 June 1919 per 'Karoola'
Appointment terminated 07 December 1919
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Long Service

As Nurse Sister Mary Hayes, who has been in charge of the Subiaco Infant Health Centre since 1926, is to retire after nearly 40 years' experience as a nurse. She said yesterday that she was sorry to give it up. Although she had not intended to take up nursing as a career, she said that she was glad that she had made the choice. "It is a job that makes you feel worth while, knowing that you have helped save lives"she said.  Sister Hayes said that when she first began infant health work,she spent most of her time visiting mothers and educating them to bring their babies to the centre and teaching them the proper methods of feeding. The modern mother had learnt that natural feeding was the best method. "In the early days of the centres, many mothers fed their babies on condensed milk, biscuits, and in one case a three week-old baby was given jam," she said. "Mothers have improved a great deal since then and husbands have become more cooperative and helpful with babies also.  "Sister Hayes trained at the Fremantle Hospital and then joined the staff of the Children's Hospital. In 1914 she served in the war for 4 1/2 years and then took up a position at a base hospital. In 1925 she went to Sydney to do baby welfare training. She served at the King Edward Maternity Hospital before her appointment to the Subiaco centre. 
PRESENTATION. Mrs. L. G. Bartlett, of Bayswater, who has had five children under the care of Sister Hayes, said yesterday that she was organising a presentation from appreciative mothers to Sister Hayes. She asked that all donations be sent to her care of Mr. A. C. Higgs, of the Subiaco Municipal Council.

The West Australian Thursday 21 July 1949 page 17

HAYNES,  Olive Lilian Creswell

Sister
AANS

Born Adelaide, SA
Daughter of Rev. James Croft HAYNES and Emma nee CRESWELL
Of George St., St. Peters, SA
Trained at Adelaide Hospital
Enlisted 21 November 1914
Aged 26 years
Embarked 28 November 1914 per 'Kyarra'
Attached to 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital at Lemnos 1915
Resigned appointment due to marriage 11 December 1917 in England
Discharged and came home as an indulgent passenger 02 May 1918 per 'Wiltshire'
Married Norval Henry DOOLEY in Oxford, England in 1917
In 1968 resided at 37 Maltravers Road, Ivanhoe, Vic.
Died 09 April 1978 in Victoria
Resided Ivanhoe, Vic.

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HAZARD, Clara

Staff Nurse
AANS

Born 06 April 1879 at Auckland, New Zealand
Daughter of William Henry HAZARD and Eliza Ann nee SCOTT
Of 33a Hepburn Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
Clara resided at St. George's Nurses Home, Milton Heights, Brisbane, Qld.
Embarked 16 November 1917 for India per 'Canberra'
Disembarked at Bombay 11 December 1917
Posted to 44th British General Hospital 09 January 1918
Posted to 34th Welsh General Hospital 14 August 1918
Posted to Station Hospital Rangoon 03 April 1919
Promoted to sister 07 November 07 November 1919
Returned to Australia 01 December 1919 per 'Medic'
Did not marry
Died 1958 in New Zealand

HAZELTON-HEARD, Amy Jane

Staff Nurse
AANS
2nd AGH

Born 16 April 1887 at Goulburn, NSW
Daughter of Edward HEARD and Sarah H LEE
Address “Belleville” Coromandel St, Goulburn, NSW
Age 28 years
Enlisted 31 July 1915
Embarked 28 July 1915 for Egypt
Transport Duty to Australia per “Star of England” 12 December 1915
Re-embarked per ”Aeneas” 04 April 1916 on duty to England
Service in Egypt, England and France
Promoted to Sister 01 October 1918
Returned to Australia per “Balmoral Castle ” 25 February 1919 On Duty
Appointment Terminated 25 July 1919
Married Frederick Loebger PEDERSON
Died 09 July 1986 in NSW

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Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haigh’s  Despatches 07 April 1918 
4th Supplement London Gazette 30706
Commonwealth Gazette No 165 – 24 October 1918




Goulburn and the War
Mentioned in Despatches


“Mrs. HS Hazelton-Heard “Belleville” Coromandel St, Goulburn has received official advice that her daughter, Staff Nurse AJ Hazelton-Heard was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch of the 7th April 1918 submitting names deserving special mention.”

Goulburn Evening Penny Post Saturday 09 November 1918



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