COATE, Agnes
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Sister
AANS Born 1876 at Woodend, Vic. Daughter of John COATE and Elizabeth nee HAMILTON Enlisted 16 August 1916 Aged 32 years Embarked 22 August 1916 per 'Mooltan' Service in India and Salonika Promoted to Sister 01 June 1917 Invalided to Australia 22 July 1918 per “Kanowna” On Duty Appointment terminated 25 November 1918 Did not marry Died 10 February 1974 at St. Anne's Private Hospital Aged 98 years Resided St. Kilda, Vic. Cremated Springvale Botanical Cemetery - ashes scattered Punch Thursday 17 February 1916 page 17 |
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COBB, Jessie
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1890 in Maitland, NSW
Daughter of George Francis COBB and Sarah nee CAMPBELL
Enlisted 12 August 1916
Aged 26 years
Embarked 09 December 1916 from Sydney per 'Kaiser-I-Hind'
Service in Egypt, Salonika and England
Returned to Australia 02 February 1919 per “Lancashire”
Appointment terminated 03 May 1919
Married Jack SABINE in Sydney in 1927
Died 23 March 1971 at Walcha District Hospital, Walcha, NSW
AANS
Born 1890 in Maitland, NSW
Daughter of George Francis COBB and Sarah nee CAMPBELL
Enlisted 12 August 1916
Aged 26 years
Embarked 09 December 1916 from Sydney per 'Kaiser-I-Hind'
Service in Egypt, Salonika and England
Returned to Australia 02 February 1919 per “Lancashire”
Appointment terminated 03 May 1919
Married Jack SABINE in Sydney in 1927
Died 23 March 1971 at Walcha District Hospital, Walcha, NSW
COBCROFT, Millicent Steuart
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Sister
AANS Born 1873 at Patricks Plain, NSW Daughter of Enoch COBCROFT and Amy Stewart nee HOPE Enlisted 27 January 1916 Embarked 09 December 1916 Appointment terminated 30 December 1916 Returned to Australia per HMAT 'Wahehe' September/October 1919 Did not marry Died 22 July 1933 at Summer Hill, NSW Buried Rookwood Cemetery |
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SISTER M. S. COBCROFT.
Sister Millicent Steuart Cobcroft, who died on Saturday at the Summer Hill residence of her father (Mr. Enoch J. Cobcroft, late chairman of the Closer Settlement Advisory Board), was born at Sunnyside station, in the Singleton district. After leaving school, she entered the Coast Hospital, and, after passing her examinations with honours, became one of the leading nurses of Sydney. She enlisted early in the war, and served in the 14th Australian General Hospital at Abassia. The officer commanding the British hospital there applied for assistance from the Australian hospital, and Sister Cobcroft was placed in control of award. Trying conditions there undoubtedly undermined her health. On returning to Sydney she did not resume nursing. She did much gratuitous work among the poor. She was proud of her ancestry, which on her mother's side traced back to the Stuart Kings. The late Lady Simpson was her aunt.
The remains were interred in the Church of England portion of the Rookwood Cemetery on Monday.
The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 26 July 1933 page 17
Sister Millicent Steuart Cobcroft, who died on Saturday at the Summer Hill residence of her father (Mr. Enoch J. Cobcroft, late chairman of the Closer Settlement Advisory Board), was born at Sunnyside station, in the Singleton district. After leaving school, she entered the Coast Hospital, and, after passing her examinations with honours, became one of the leading nurses of Sydney. She enlisted early in the war, and served in the 14th Australian General Hospital at Abassia. The officer commanding the British hospital there applied for assistance from the Australian hospital, and Sister Cobcroft was placed in control of award. Trying conditions there undoubtedly undermined her health. On returning to Sydney she did not resume nursing. She did much gratuitous work among the poor. She was proud of her ancestry, which on her mother's side traced back to the Stuart Kings. The late Lady Simpson was her aunt.
The remains were interred in the Church of England portion of the Rookwood Cemetery on Monday.
The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 26 July 1933 page 17
COBLEY, Catherine Mary
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 06 June 1893 at Bedwas, South Wales Sister of Eliza COMPTON Trained at Perth Public Hospital Enlisted 11 December 1916 Married George POTTER in 16 December 1916 in Fremantle, WA Embarked 18 December 1916 per 'Kaiser-i-Hind' Returned on Nursing Duties and discharged due to being a married woman Appointment terminated 19 April 1917 Died 05 November 1976 in WA Buried Karrakatta Cemetery, WA Anglican WE 0263 |
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COCK, Alice Mabel
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 11 February 1890 in Brisbane, Qld. Daughter of Thomas COCK and Elizabeth nee CHALK Enlisted 25 August 1917 Embarked 05 January 1918 Appointment terminated 24 March 1919 Married James WOODSIDE Died 30 December 1923 from the effects of Pneumonic Flu while serving overseas Read more here |
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COCKBURN, Clarence Kathleen
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born Sydney, NSW Daughter of Lennox Manners Charteris COCKBURN Enlisted 16 June 1915 at Melbourne, Vic. Aged 30 years Embarked 16 June 1915 from Sydney per 'Karoola' Service in Egypt Invalided to Australia 03 March 1916 per “Argyllshire” (Heart Disease caused by overwork) Given Medical Clearance re-embarked 03 September 1916 per in Sydney per “Kashgar” Service in India Invalided to Australia 28 December 1916 per “Karmala” (Heart Disease) Discharged as medically unfit 14 May 1919 Married Rossini OWEN Died 30 May 1929 at St. Vincent's Private Hospital, Darlinghurst Resided 'Macquarie' Worsley Road, Mosman, NSW Buried Northern Suburbs Catholic Cemetery www.awm.gov.au P03134.001 |
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COCKFIELD nee MOORE, Gertrude (Mrs)
Nurse
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born in England
Daughter of Alfred and Mar MOORE
Married Park COCKFIELD
Returned to Australia per D27 for free passage in return for services
Died 19 July 1965 in Brisbane, Qld.
Late of Clovelly, NSW
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born in England
Daughter of Alfred and Mar MOORE
Married Park COCKFIELD
Returned to Australia per D27 for free passage in return for services
Died 19 July 1965 in Brisbane, Qld.
Late of Clovelly, NSW
COCKING, Alice Elizabeth
Sister
AANS
Born 1879 at Clunes, Vic.
Daughter of William Tusting COCKING and Elizabeth nee NEWELL
Enlisted 17 July 1915 at Victoria Barracks, Vic.
Aged 36 years
Embarked 17 July 1915 per 'Orsova'
Service Egypt, Salonika
Promoted t o Sister 01 September 1917
Returned to Australia 22 July 1918 per “Kanowna” On Duty
Appointment terminated 25 November 1918
Married Frederick Harry WILLIAMS in 1923
Died 14 April 1972
Buried Box Hill Cemetery M 021 0011
AANS
Born 1879 at Clunes, Vic.
Daughter of William Tusting COCKING and Elizabeth nee NEWELL
Enlisted 17 July 1915 at Victoria Barracks, Vic.
Aged 36 years
Embarked 17 July 1915 per 'Orsova'
Service Egypt, Salonika
Promoted t o Sister 01 September 1917
Returned to Australia 22 July 1918 per “Kanowna” On Duty
Appointment terminated 25 November 1918
Married Frederick Harry WILLIAMS in 1923
Died 14 April 1972
Buried Box Hill Cemetery M 021 0011
COCKS, Agnes
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Sister
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Born 14 August 1871, Mount Gambier, SA Daughter of John COCK and Sarah nee JONES Did not marry Died 28 June 1925 at Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA Aged 53 years Cause of death Accidental Burns Resided South Terrace, Adelaide, SA Buried West Terrace Cemetery Road 3 Path 7 W 32 |
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Miss Agnes Cocks, who died on June 28 from pneumonia supervening on a severe burning accident, belonged to a well known pioneer family, her grandfather having come to South Australia In 1836 on the Buffalo. Miss Cocks, who was a nursing sister, received her training at the Adelaide Hospital, and was one of the Australian Sisters who did such excellent work with the colonial forces during the South African war. On the declaration of peace Sister Cocks went to Johannesburg, where she settled for some years, establishing a private nursing practice. Later on she went to England, and continued to engage in nursing in London. She made several trips to Australia to see her relatives, and it was one of her great egrets that she was not present in the Commonwealth when war was declared in 1914, and so was unable to join the Australian nursing sisters. She immediately placed her services at the disposal of the Imperial military authorities, however, and served with a nursing unit in France. During the war she was prominently associated with the hospital established by Millicent Duchess of Sutherland. The strain of war work told considerably upon her once robust constitution, and at the close of hostilities she determined to return to Australia. For several years she had been living with her mother, Mrs. Cocks, of South-terrace. Her health had failed considerably. She leaves three sisters, Misses Edith, Jean, and Dolly Cocks, all of South-terrace, and one brother, Mr. Harry Cocks, of Gladstone.
The Chronicle Saturday 11 July 1925 page 21
Photographs State Library of South Australia
The Chronicle Saturday 11 July 1925 page 21
Photographs State Library of South Australia
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COCKS, Edyth
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Staff Nurse
Masseuse AANS Born Mount Gambier, SA Daughter of John and Sarah COCKS Enlisted 20 October 1915 Aged 31 years Enlisted 05 November 1915 Embarked 12 November 1915 per 'Orsova' Service Convalescent Depot Egypt Embarked 30 August 1916 per “Kanowna” On Duty to England Service in England Contracted influenza March 1918 Returned to Australia 05 April 1918 per “Borda” On Duty Re-enlisted 26 June 1918 Re-embarked 18 October 1918 per “Pakeha” Service in Egypt Returned to Australia 23 August 1919 per “Dunluce Castle” On Duty Appointment terminated 17 October 1919 Died 31 August 1937 at her late residence 151 South Terrace, Adelaide Aged 65 years Occupation Masseuse Cause of death Cerebral Haemorrhage, Myocardial with general Cardiovascular Degeneration Buried West Terrace Cemetery Road 3 Path 7 W 33 |
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OBITUARY
Miss Edith Cocks, of South terrace, City, who died recently, was on active service as a nurse from 1915 to 1919, both in England and Egypt. After the war she was appointed to the Repatriation Hospital Keswick, and remained there until 1933, when she resigned. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Cocks, and granddaughter of an old pioneer, Robert Cocks, who arrived in the Buffalo. She is survived by a brother. Mr H. Cocks, of Gladstone, and two sisters, Misses J. and D. Cocks, of South terrace, Adelaide
The Advertiser Monday 04 October 1937 page 12
Photographs State Library of South Australia
Miss Edith Cocks, of South terrace, City, who died recently, was on active service as a nurse from 1915 to 1919, both in England and Egypt. After the war she was appointed to the Repatriation Hospital Keswick, and remained there until 1933, when she resigned. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Cocks, and granddaughter of an old pioneer, Robert Cocks, who arrived in the Buffalo. She is survived by a brother. Mr H. Cocks, of Gladstone, and two sisters, Misses J. and D. Cocks, of South terrace, Adelaide
The Advertiser Monday 04 October 1937 page 12
Photographs State Library of South Australia
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COFFEY, Anne Marie Benigna
Staff Nurse
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born Anne Marie Cecilia Benigna COFFEY in Kelvedon, Tas.
Daughter of Thomas COFFEY and Anna Marie nee COTTON
Resided at Kelvedon, Triabuma, Tas. prior to enlistment
Joined QAIMNSR 02 April 1915
Embarked from Melbourne per 'Malwa' 05 April 1915
Taken on in Egypt 04 May 1915 per 'Dongala'
Served 32nd Casualty Clearing Hosptial, Beirut, Syria
'Sister B Coffey has worked under me for the last twelve months. The management of her wards generally is excellent and her nursing capabilities are above the average.'
Arrived in UK from Egypt on one month's leave 26 March 1920
Demobilised 27 April 1920
Posted to South African Military Hospital, Richmond Park, Surrey, England for duty while awaiting repatriation
Returned to Australia 19 August 1920 per 'Orontes' from England
Engagement terminated 24 July 1920 Demobilized as surplus to requirements
Married James Cooper STEWART in 1926 in Hobart
He died 14 December 1928 aged 40 years
Benigna died 05 December 1961 in Vic.
Late of Kingston Beach, Vic.
Buried Booroondara Cemetery, Kew Vic. Pres A 1244
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born Anne Marie Cecilia Benigna COFFEY in Kelvedon, Tas.
Daughter of Thomas COFFEY and Anna Marie nee COTTON
Resided at Kelvedon, Triabuma, Tas. prior to enlistment
Joined QAIMNSR 02 April 1915
Embarked from Melbourne per 'Malwa' 05 April 1915
Taken on in Egypt 04 May 1915 per 'Dongala'
Served 32nd Casualty Clearing Hosptial, Beirut, Syria
'Sister B Coffey has worked under me for the last twelve months. The management of her wards generally is excellent and her nursing capabilities are above the average.'
Arrived in UK from Egypt on one month's leave 26 March 1920
Demobilised 27 April 1920
Posted to South African Military Hospital, Richmond Park, Surrey, England for duty while awaiting repatriation
Returned to Australia 19 August 1920 per 'Orontes' from England
Engagement terminated 24 July 1920 Demobilized as surplus to requirements
Married James Cooper STEWART in 1926 in Hobart
He died 14 December 1928 aged 40 years
Benigna died 05 December 1961 in Vic.
Late of Kingston Beach, Vic.
Buried Booroondara Cemetery, Kew Vic. Pres A 1244
Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
London Gazette 01 January 1916
London Gazette 01 January 1916
Mentioned in Despatches
London Gazette 05 June 1919
London Gazette 05 June 1919
Mentioned in Despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 21 September 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2624, position 70
Date of London Gazette: 21 June 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 6184, position 62
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 21 September 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2624, position 70
Date of London Gazette: 21 June 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 6184, position 62
COFFEY, Imelda Colombia
Staff Nurse
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born 1888 in Portland, Tas.
Daughter of Thomas John COFFEY and Anna Maria nee COTTON
sister to Benigna COFFEY
Service in the General Hospital Launceston, Tas.
Theatre Sister 1 1/2 years Private Hospital, Tas.
Joined QAIMNSR from Tasmania 14 May 1915
Embarked from Australia 15 May 1915 per 'Mooltan'
To 4 General Hospital 29 February 1916
Served in Egypt, on the Mediterranean and in France
27th General Hospital, Abbassia, Cairo 02 May 1917 renewed contract
'Miss Coffey has been off duty through sickness for 20 days in April with German Measles and from 04 June 1916 to 12 July 1916 with ..... of middle ear. She is a concientous, capable, reliable nurse , most kind to her patients. At present not strong enough for the strains of A.C.C.S. She has been 7 months on a Hospital Ship.'
To England 14 November 1917
Married Rolfe William JACKSON in UK IN 1917
Resigned due to ill health 21 February 1918
Resided Dilston House, Collins Avenue, Morton-on-Tees July 1919
Resided 123 High Street, Norton, nr. Stockton-on-Tees, Durham 05 March 1922
Letter to Officer's Association -
'I am writing this letter in the hope that you will be able to assist me in some way under your scheme. My marriage was a war wedding - I am sorry to say I am now destitute, my husband having left me.
I have two young children, and am receiving no income whatever. The only assistance I get is from friends, who are helping me till I am favoured with your reply.'
I joined up from Tasmania under the British Government and served two years and ten months (from May 1915 to Feb. 1918). I belonged to the QAIMNS (Reserve) and served in Egypt, on the Mediterranean and in France. My Gratuity due from the Australian government I could not claim in time, as it had to be collected personally, this of course was out of the question having the care of the children an no money.
I should be pleased to know what procedure to adopt to received aid, and if there is any special grant for anyone willing to undertake a small business. I have now to provide for and bring up my children alone.
Your helpful and early reply will greatly oblige.
I am, Sir,
Yours respectfully,
Imelda Jackson nee Coffey
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born 1888 in Portland, Tas.
Daughter of Thomas John COFFEY and Anna Maria nee COTTON
sister to Benigna COFFEY
Service in the General Hospital Launceston, Tas.
Theatre Sister 1 1/2 years Private Hospital, Tas.
Joined QAIMNSR from Tasmania 14 May 1915
Embarked from Australia 15 May 1915 per 'Mooltan'
To 4 General Hospital 29 February 1916
Served in Egypt, on the Mediterranean and in France
27th General Hospital, Abbassia, Cairo 02 May 1917 renewed contract
'Miss Coffey has been off duty through sickness for 20 days in April with German Measles and from 04 June 1916 to 12 July 1916 with ..... of middle ear. She is a concientous, capable, reliable nurse , most kind to her patients. At present not strong enough for the strains of A.C.C.S. She has been 7 months on a Hospital Ship.'
To England 14 November 1917
Married Rolfe William JACKSON in UK IN 1917
Resigned due to ill health 21 February 1918
Resided Dilston House, Collins Avenue, Morton-on-Tees July 1919
Resided 123 High Street, Norton, nr. Stockton-on-Tees, Durham 05 March 1922
Letter to Officer's Association -
'I am writing this letter in the hope that you will be able to assist me in some way under your scheme. My marriage was a war wedding - I am sorry to say I am now destitute, my husband having left me.
I have two young children, and am receiving no income whatever. The only assistance I get is from friends, who are helping me till I am favoured with your reply.'
I joined up from Tasmania under the British Government and served two years and ten months (from May 1915 to Feb. 1918). I belonged to the QAIMNS (Reserve) and served in Egypt, on the Mediterranean and in France. My Gratuity due from the Australian government I could not claim in time, as it had to be collected personally, this of course was out of the question having the care of the children an no money.
I should be pleased to know what procedure to adopt to received aid, and if there is any special grant for anyone willing to undertake a small business. I have now to provide for and bring up my children alone.
Your helpful and early reply will greatly oblige.
I am, Sir,
Yours respectfully,
Imelda Jackson nee Coffey
Warrant issued in NSW in 1924 for Rolfe William JACKSON for desertion - complainant was Amelda JACKSON of 22 Eaton Street, North Sydney, NSW
Imelda resided in Melbourne and had another child - Roger Anthony JACKSON was born in 1925 and died 1927 aged 20 months of pneumonia.
Imelda died 1970 in Greensborough, Vic.
Imelda resided in Melbourne and had another child - Roger Anthony JACKSON was born in 1925 and died 1927 aged 20 months of pneumonia.
Imelda died 1970 in Greensborough, Vic.
COGGINS, Esther Edith
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 19 July 1885 in Waverley, Sydney, NSW Daughter of Thomas Jeremiah COGGINS and Clara Sara nee CLARK Enlisted 04 December 1916 Aged 31 years Embarked 12 June 1917 from Melbourne per 'Mooltan' Service in Salonika Returned to Australia 13 May 1919 “Ulimaroa” Appointment terminated 13 September 1919 Married Reginald Beatty MASSEY in 1924 Died 1980 in New Zealand Cremated Purewa Cemetery 03 June 1980 Last address Selwyn Village, Pt. Chevalier, Auckland |
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Staff-Nurse Ettie Coggins, who recently returned from Salonika, is visiting her brother, Mr. H. C. Coggins, of Hill-street. She was over three years on active service.
Leader Friday 12 September 1919 page 6
Leader Friday 12 September 1919 page 6
COLEMAN, Eileen May
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Sister
AANS Daughter of James and Emily Kate COLEMAN Address 33 Maria St, Petersham Sydney NSW Age 28 years Enlisted 24 November 1914 Embarked 28 November 1914 at Sydney per “Kyarra” Service Transport Duty to Australia from Suez on “Themistocles” and “Commonwealth” Extensive service in the field in France, also Italy and England Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches of 07 November 1917 Promoted to Sister 02 February 1916 Returned to Australia 09 February 1919 per “Ascanius” On Duty Appointment terminated 21 June 1919 Did not marry Died 05 May 1945 in Sydney, NSW Aged 58 years Buried Rookwood Cemetery |
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Mentioned in despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 18 April 1918
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 845, position 96
Date of London Gazette: 28 December 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 13568, position 118
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 18 April 1918
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 845, position 96
Date of London Gazette: 28 December 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 13568, position 118
First Woman on R.S.L. Council
The nomination of Sister E. M. Coleman as a State councillor oithe Returned Soldiers' League, had been approved, the Estate secretary. Mr. J. R. Lewis, told the State executive on Thursday night. Miss Coleman was elected as representative of the Returned Army Nursing Sisters' sub-branch, following a decision of State Congress that the sub-branch should be represented. She will be the first woman State councillor of the league.
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser Thursday 01 March 1945 page 3
The nomination of Sister E. M. Coleman as a State councillor oithe Returned Soldiers' League, had been approved, the Estate secretary. Mr. J. R. Lewis, told the State executive on Thursday night. Miss Coleman was elected as representative of the Returned Army Nursing Sisters' sub-branch, following a decision of State Congress that the sub-branch should be represented. She will be the first woman State councillor of the league.
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser Thursday 01 March 1945 page 3
COLEMAN, Katherine Mary
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Sister
AANS Born Hay, NSW Daughter of Mrs. J TYSON-JONES Of Subiaco, WA Enlisted 28 November 1916 Aged 32 years Embarked 06 December 1916 from Melbourne per 'Orsova' Extensive service on the field in France Promoted to Sister 29 December 1918 Attended course on Maternity and Child Welfare 3.3.19 - 27.5.19 Returned to Australia 06 September 1919 per “Euripides” On Duty Appointment terminated 08 December 1919 Died 11 April 1938 Loomis Hospital, Liberty, New York Aged 53 years |
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AUSTRALIAN EXILES
Found in Many Lands
Somewhere in South America, over a tiny bungalow, a little Australian flag flies defiantly in the face of the hot winds from Ecuador and the cooler breezes from the Caribbean Sea (states a writer in 'The Sun Pictorial." Melbourne). It was hoisted by Mollie K. Coleman. aventuresome young Western Australian woman, who has worked her way in many lands -without ever quite conquering her heart's desire to stay at home. Miss Coleman is one of many exiles ofwhose existence Australia does not know, but who are unobtrusively achieving things— some small, some big — in the older world. In the first days of the war, the High Commissioner's office in London was besieged by a small army of these exiles there must have been a thousand of them—who wanted to join the A.I.F. They came from the four corners of the earth. A picturesque crew they were, appearing, all the more burly, and breezy by contrast with the small and expressionless Londoners.
There was one giant who came across with the Canadians. He had chased the weight on pretty nearly every gold field in -the world, from Kalgoorlie to the Yukon, and when he heard there was a war on he had staked a claim at a point nearly, a thousand miles further north than Dawson City, Alaska. He took his first leave, in London after a year or two in the trenches, and he said the M.M. ribbon on his tunic was 'buck-shee.' .To return to Miss Coleman. Her earliest adventures were on the Western Australian goldfields, where she trained as a nurse. When the war started Miss Coleman was in London. Australian officialdom turned a cold eye on her, so she rushed across to Paris, joined a French unit, and was soon out near the lines nursing poilus.
Faced the Enemy
Service in several sections of the war zone followed, and then Sister Coleman joined up with Lady Paget's Hospital, and went into Serbia. She was there when Serbia collapsed, but elected to stick it out when the main part of the unit joined in the general retreat. Bulgars and Austrians seized the hospital and made her nurse their sick for a long time. Then she got away through Roumania, Russia, Sweden, and Norway.,
Back to London, another spell in France, the long trip to Australia to join the AIF nursing service, France again with the Diggers, and in due course home again. Miss Coleman later crossed the States, and then sailed south again, pulling up at Cartagena, Colombia, where she is in the medical department of the Tropical Oil Company.
Of course, there are Australians who are world famous actors, singers, --- explorers, and so on. It is not suggested that Miss.Coleman or the Alaskan prospector can be placed in the same category. Neither can A. H. Benjamin, one of the most powerful business men in the meat business in America; Frank Staines, who runs a highly, successful business in Victoria street, London; nor H. E.. How, the controller of a chain of hotels in Bloomsbury and elsewhere. But they, are interesting, and Australians ought to know something of them and others like them.
The Mail (Adelaide) Saturday 08 May 1926 page 5
A MUCH-TRAVELLED NURSE
The Late Sister Coleman.
Word has been received in Perth of the death of Sister Mary K. Coleman at Loomis Hospital, Liberty, New York, on April 11 last. She was 53 years of age. The late Sister Coleman came to Western Australia with her parents in 1897, and subsequently travelled to many parts of the world, on several occasions being referred to as "Australia's most-travelled nurse. In March, 1906, she was accepted as a probationer in the Government Hospitals of this State, qualifying as a fully trained nurse after three years' work at the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie hospitals. She registered as a member of the Australian Trained Nurses' Association in 1910 and in the following January obtained a certificate of efficiency in the Australian Army Nursing Services. During the following 18 months she practised private nursing in Perth and late in 1913 went to England to further her studies in different branches of her profession. She did a six months' course at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital in London, gaining a diploma, and also a course of training at the Royal Sanitary Institute of London, subsequently being awarded a diploma. She also nursed for some time in the slums of London. She was then admitted as a member of the Royal British Nurses' Association and when the Great War broke out she joined an Imperial Nursing Unit and went on active service in France.
She had the distinction of being the first Australian nurse on service in the war and remained in France until March, 1915. She then returned to London and joined Lady Pogett's nursing unit, comprising 40 nurses - and several doctors who went to Serbia in April, 1915. After many months of service in Serbia the members of this unit were made prisoners of war by the Bulgarians and were interned for some months. As a result of negotiations between the British and Bulgarian authorities they were released, a condition of release being that they should leave Bulgaria via a neutral country. This meant proceeding through Rumania to Russia, thence to England via Norway and Sweden. For her services in Serbia Miss Coleman received a testimonial from the Serbian Relief Fund Committee, and, in addition, the Cross of Charity was conferred upon her by His Majesty King Peter, King of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes. In 1916 Miss Coleman returned to Australia and soon after received an appointment to the Australian Army Nursing Service. Late in the same year she embarked as a member of an A.I.F. nursing unit for service abroad, where she remained in the military hospitals of France and England until 1919, in which year she returned to Australia.
After serving for a year in the No. 8 Australian General Hospital, Fremantle, she applied for and obtained her discharge. Before leaving England Sister Coleman had received a highly complimentary ad-dress from the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in recognition of services rendered during the war.
In 1921 she was appointed to the position of matron of the Coonamble Hospital in N.S.W., which she filled for a period of 18 months. She then went to the United States of America where she practised in hospitals of New York and other cities for some years. In 1923 the Board of Health of California conferred upon her the title of Registered Nurse under the medical laws of America. In the same year she was admitted as registered nurse by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales. In 1924 she qualified in the University of the State of New York as a registered nurse and received her diploma. In 1926 she took a position with the Medical Department of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and served in their hospitals in various parts of South America until within a few months of her death. In 1933 she was selected to attend an international nurses' congress in Paris. She was a student of foreign languages and spoke French, Italian and Spanish fluently. She cultivated a taste for classical music and followed the political trends of the world with interest and intelligence.
The late Miss Mary K. Coleman, photographed while serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service in France during the Great War.
The West Australia Wednesday 08 June 1938 page 5
Found in Many Lands
Somewhere in South America, over a tiny bungalow, a little Australian flag flies defiantly in the face of the hot winds from Ecuador and the cooler breezes from the Caribbean Sea (states a writer in 'The Sun Pictorial." Melbourne). It was hoisted by Mollie K. Coleman. aventuresome young Western Australian woman, who has worked her way in many lands -without ever quite conquering her heart's desire to stay at home. Miss Coleman is one of many exiles ofwhose existence Australia does not know, but who are unobtrusively achieving things— some small, some big — in the older world. In the first days of the war, the High Commissioner's office in London was besieged by a small army of these exiles there must have been a thousand of them—who wanted to join the A.I.F. They came from the four corners of the earth. A picturesque crew they were, appearing, all the more burly, and breezy by contrast with the small and expressionless Londoners.
There was one giant who came across with the Canadians. He had chased the weight on pretty nearly every gold field in -the world, from Kalgoorlie to the Yukon, and when he heard there was a war on he had staked a claim at a point nearly, a thousand miles further north than Dawson City, Alaska. He took his first leave, in London after a year or two in the trenches, and he said the M.M. ribbon on his tunic was 'buck-shee.' .To return to Miss Coleman. Her earliest adventures were on the Western Australian goldfields, where she trained as a nurse. When the war started Miss Coleman was in London. Australian officialdom turned a cold eye on her, so she rushed across to Paris, joined a French unit, and was soon out near the lines nursing poilus.
Faced the Enemy
Service in several sections of the war zone followed, and then Sister Coleman joined up with Lady Paget's Hospital, and went into Serbia. She was there when Serbia collapsed, but elected to stick it out when the main part of the unit joined in the general retreat. Bulgars and Austrians seized the hospital and made her nurse their sick for a long time. Then she got away through Roumania, Russia, Sweden, and Norway.,
Back to London, another spell in France, the long trip to Australia to join the AIF nursing service, France again with the Diggers, and in due course home again. Miss Coleman later crossed the States, and then sailed south again, pulling up at Cartagena, Colombia, where she is in the medical department of the Tropical Oil Company.
Of course, there are Australians who are world famous actors, singers, --- explorers, and so on. It is not suggested that Miss.Coleman or the Alaskan prospector can be placed in the same category. Neither can A. H. Benjamin, one of the most powerful business men in the meat business in America; Frank Staines, who runs a highly, successful business in Victoria street, London; nor H. E.. How, the controller of a chain of hotels in Bloomsbury and elsewhere. But they, are interesting, and Australians ought to know something of them and others like them.
The Mail (Adelaide) Saturday 08 May 1926 page 5
A MUCH-TRAVELLED NURSE
The Late Sister Coleman.
Word has been received in Perth of the death of Sister Mary K. Coleman at Loomis Hospital, Liberty, New York, on April 11 last. She was 53 years of age. The late Sister Coleman came to Western Australia with her parents in 1897, and subsequently travelled to many parts of the world, on several occasions being referred to as "Australia's most-travelled nurse. In March, 1906, she was accepted as a probationer in the Government Hospitals of this State, qualifying as a fully trained nurse after three years' work at the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie hospitals. She registered as a member of the Australian Trained Nurses' Association in 1910 and in the following January obtained a certificate of efficiency in the Australian Army Nursing Services. During the following 18 months she practised private nursing in Perth and late in 1913 went to England to further her studies in different branches of her profession. She did a six months' course at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital in London, gaining a diploma, and also a course of training at the Royal Sanitary Institute of London, subsequently being awarded a diploma. She also nursed for some time in the slums of London. She was then admitted as a member of the Royal British Nurses' Association and when the Great War broke out she joined an Imperial Nursing Unit and went on active service in France.
She had the distinction of being the first Australian nurse on service in the war and remained in France until March, 1915. She then returned to London and joined Lady Pogett's nursing unit, comprising 40 nurses - and several doctors who went to Serbia in April, 1915. After many months of service in Serbia the members of this unit were made prisoners of war by the Bulgarians and were interned for some months. As a result of negotiations between the British and Bulgarian authorities they were released, a condition of release being that they should leave Bulgaria via a neutral country. This meant proceeding through Rumania to Russia, thence to England via Norway and Sweden. For her services in Serbia Miss Coleman received a testimonial from the Serbian Relief Fund Committee, and, in addition, the Cross of Charity was conferred upon her by His Majesty King Peter, King of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes. In 1916 Miss Coleman returned to Australia and soon after received an appointment to the Australian Army Nursing Service. Late in the same year she embarked as a member of an A.I.F. nursing unit for service abroad, where she remained in the military hospitals of France and England until 1919, in which year she returned to Australia.
After serving for a year in the No. 8 Australian General Hospital, Fremantle, she applied for and obtained her discharge. Before leaving England Sister Coleman had received a highly complimentary ad-dress from the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in recognition of services rendered during the war.
In 1921 she was appointed to the position of matron of the Coonamble Hospital in N.S.W., which she filled for a period of 18 months. She then went to the United States of America where she practised in hospitals of New York and other cities for some years. In 1923 the Board of Health of California conferred upon her the title of Registered Nurse under the medical laws of America. In the same year she was admitted as registered nurse by the General Nursing Council for England and Wales. In 1924 she qualified in the University of the State of New York as a registered nurse and received her diploma. In 1926 she took a position with the Medical Department of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and served in their hospitals in various parts of South America until within a few months of her death. In 1933 she was selected to attend an international nurses' congress in Paris. She was a student of foreign languages and spoke French, Italian and Spanish fluently. She cultivated a taste for classical music and followed the political trends of the world with interest and intelligence.
The late Miss Mary K. Coleman, photographed while serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service in France during the Great War.
The West Australia Wednesday 08 June 1938 page 5
COLES, Olive Coralette
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 06 December 1879 at Riverton, SA
Daughter of Charles Henry COLES and Emma nee PAIN
Sister of W T Coles
Address at Woolnough Rd, Semaphore SA
Age 36 years
Volunteered 02 November 1916
Duty at No 15 AGH
“Made AIF on account of volunteering to nurse Spanish influenza in WA”
Left 20 March 1918 by train to WA
Returned 03 July 1919
Did not marry
Died 27 June 1967 in New Zealand
Buried Purewa Cemetery
AANS
Born 06 December 1879 at Riverton, SA
Daughter of Charles Henry COLES and Emma nee PAIN
Sister of W T Coles
Address at Woolnough Rd, Semaphore SA
Age 36 years
Volunteered 02 November 1916
Duty at No 15 AGH
“Made AIF on account of volunteering to nurse Spanish influenza in WA”
Left 20 March 1918 by train to WA
Returned 03 July 1919
Did not marry
Died 27 June 1967 in New Zealand
Buried Purewa Cemetery
COLLESS, Stella Lillian
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Sister
AANS Born Penrith, NSW Daughter of Georgiana COLLESS Enlisted 19 June 1915 Embarked 14 July 1915 Appointment terminated 02 July 1919 Died 28 September 1976 in NSW Late of Penrith and Northbridge, NSW |
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Australian hospital ship AMFA Grantala - front row 1st nurse on left
COLLINS, Georgina
Sister
AANS
Born 1884 at Mackay, Queensland
Daughter of James COLLINS and Christina Fredericka nee DANTEL
Of Railway Reserve, Barcaldire, Qld.
Trained at the Salvation Army's Bethesda Hospital in Melbourne
Enlisted 06 October 1915
Aged 31 years
Embarked from Australia 11 November 1915 per 'Orsova'
Served Egypt, France and England
Returned to Australia 02 January 1920 per 'Ormonde'
Appointment terminated 17 March 1920
Died 16 January 1978 in Bethany, Vic.
Cremated Springvale Botanical Cemetery ashes collected
AANS
Born 1884 at Mackay, Queensland
Daughter of James COLLINS and Christina Fredericka nee DANTEL
Of Railway Reserve, Barcaldire, Qld.
Trained at the Salvation Army's Bethesda Hospital in Melbourne
Enlisted 06 October 1915
Aged 31 years
Embarked from Australia 11 November 1915 per 'Orsova'
Served Egypt, France and England
Returned to Australia 02 January 1920 per 'Ormonde'
Appointment terminated 17 March 1920
Died 16 January 1978 in Bethany, Vic.
Cremated Springvale Botanical Cemetery ashes collected
Georgina Collins entered the Melbourne Training Home aged 24 on 21 November 1907 out of Barcaldine Queensland, and was appointed to Bethesda Melbourne on 24 June 1908. Georgina Collins enlisted in the AANS on 6 October 1915. She gave as her closest relative Mrs James Collins, Railway Reserve Barcaldine. Initially, she was posted to the Military Hospital at Broadmedows, Melbourne along with Jane Gant, Eva Eggleston and Alice Toft . She was then posted, along with her three sister Officer/Nurses to Egypt. She was fortunate to have Alice Toft as her companion throughout the whole of her war service. She was subsequently posted to London, then to France and later to England again. She was discharged from the AANS on 17 March 1920. On her discharge from the AANS she resumed the Army’s service, though before doing so she had some furlough which she spent at home with her mother in Barcaldine. In three of the The War Crys of 1920 there is a series of small notes stating that whilst home in Barcaldine on furlough she was placed in charge of the Barcaldine Corps until a replacement was found later that year. After her furlough she was appointed to Hope House Melbourne and retired as Brigadier on 5 January 1945, as Matron of Bethesda Hospital Melbourne.
Courtesy of Dennis Garland and The Salvation Army
Courtesy of Dennis Garland and The Salvation Army
COLLINS, Grace Frances
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1885 at Warburton, Vic.
Daughter of Cuentes Vincent COLLINS and Alice Jane nee TURNER
Next of kin Miss TURNER
Aged 30 years
Enlisted 12 October 1918
Embarked “Wyreema” 10 December 1918
Disembarked at Fremantle for Quarantine Duty
Appointment terminated 07 March 1919
Appointment terminated 17 March 1920
Married Donald Eric SINCLAIR in 1922
Died 26 April 1967 in Heidelberg, Vic.
Aged 81 years
Cremated Springvale Botanical Cemetery - ashes scattered
AANS
Born 1885 at Warburton, Vic.
Daughter of Cuentes Vincent COLLINS and Alice Jane nee TURNER
Next of kin Miss TURNER
Aged 30 years
Enlisted 12 October 1918
Embarked “Wyreema” 10 December 1918
Disembarked at Fremantle for Quarantine Duty
Appointment terminated 07 March 1919
Appointment terminated 17 March 1920
Married Donald Eric SINCLAIR in 1922
Died 26 April 1967 in Heidelberg, Vic.
Aged 81 years
Cremated Springvale Botanical Cemetery - ashes scattered
COLLINS, Helena Mary
Sister
AANS
Born 02 September 1887 at Prospect, SA
Daughter of Patrick Francis COLLINS and Lucy nee WALLACE
Enlisted 31 August 1916
Aged 33 years
Embarked 30 March 1917 from Fremantle per 'Kanowna'
Service in Egypt
Promoted to Sister 23 March 1919
Attended Musical Studies 11.7.19 to 11.10.19 in England
Returned to Australia 22 December 1919 per “Themisocles” On Duty
Appointment terminated 14 February 1920
Married William Vincent GROVES 29 March 1930 at West Perth, WA
Died 19 September 1966 in WA
Aged 87 years
Resided Kalamunda, WA
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Roman Catholic HA 0462
AANS
Born 02 September 1887 at Prospect, SA
Daughter of Patrick Francis COLLINS and Lucy nee WALLACE
Enlisted 31 August 1916
Aged 33 years
Embarked 30 March 1917 from Fremantle per 'Kanowna'
Service in Egypt
Promoted to Sister 23 March 1919
Attended Musical Studies 11.7.19 to 11.10.19 in England
Returned to Australia 22 December 1919 per “Themisocles” On Duty
Appointment terminated 14 February 1920
Married William Vincent GROVES 29 March 1930 at West Perth, WA
Died 19 September 1966 in WA
Aged 87 years
Resided Kalamunda, WA
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Roman Catholic HA 0462
COLLINS, Mary Elizabeth
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born c1888 in Traralgon, Vic.
Daughter of John COLLINS and Annie nee PEMBERTHY
Trained 3 years Bairnsdale Hospital
Enlisted 22 May 1917
Aged 29 years
Embarked 12 June 1917 from Melbourne per 'Mooltan'
Service in Salonika
Appendicitis June 1918
Invalided to Australia 30 August 1918 per “Wiltshire”
Discharged as medically unfit 24 January 1919
Married Charles Douglas BURTON 15 December 1920 at St, James Church, Traralgon
Died 07 June 1973 at Repat Hospital Concord, NSW
Late of Hurlstone Park, NSW
AANS
Born c1888 in Traralgon, Vic.
Daughter of John COLLINS and Annie nee PEMBERTHY
Trained 3 years Bairnsdale Hospital
Enlisted 22 May 1917
Aged 29 years
Embarked 12 June 1917 from Melbourne per 'Mooltan'
Service in Salonika
Appendicitis June 1918
Invalided to Australia 30 August 1918 per “Wiltshire”
Discharged as medically unfit 24 January 1919
Married Charles Douglas BURTON 15 December 1920 at St, James Church, Traralgon
Died 07 June 1973 at Repat Hospital Concord, NSW
Late of Hurlstone Park, NSW
COLLINS, Ruby Constance
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 1887 at Melbourne, Vic. Daughter of Henry Haily COLLINS and Eleanor Jane nee MURRAY Enlisted 24 May 1917 Aged 29 years Embarked 12 June 1917 from Melbourne per 'Mooltan' Service in Salonika Returned to Australia 29 April 1919 per “Dorset” On Duty Appointment terminated 11 July 1919 Married Malcolm McARTHUR in1935 Died 1971 at St. Leonards, NSW |
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COLLINS, Ruth
Sister
Listed on Hay and Districts Honour Roll
Listed on Hay and Districts Honour Roll
COLLIVER, Stella Florence
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 03 October 1889 at Norwood, SA
Daughter of William Henry COLLIVER and Emily nee CHAMPION
Of Birks St., Parkside, SA
Trained at Adelaide Hospital
Enlisted 22 February 1919 and reported for duty to No 7 Australian General Hospital
Transferred to Torrens Island 27 February 1919 to Nurse Influenza patients from 'Kanowna'
Returned and demobilized 03 July 1919
Inspector for Local Board of Health from 1927 to 1931
Resigned 1931
Married George Douglas GLEADOW 24 October 1931 at Methodist Church, Malvern
Died 04 December 1956 in Tasmania
Aged 67 years
Cremated Carr Villa Cemetery and ashes collected
AANS
Born 03 October 1889 at Norwood, SA
Daughter of William Henry COLLIVER and Emily nee CHAMPION
Of Birks St., Parkside, SA
Trained at Adelaide Hospital
Enlisted 22 February 1919 and reported for duty to No 7 Australian General Hospital
Transferred to Torrens Island 27 February 1919 to Nurse Influenza patients from 'Kanowna'
Returned and demobilized 03 July 1919
Inspector for Local Board of Health from 1927 to 1931
Resigned 1931
Married George Douglas GLEADOW 24 October 1931 at Methodist Church, Malvern
Died 04 December 1956 in Tasmania
Aged 67 years
Cremated Carr Villa Cemetery and ashes collected
COLLOPY, Bernice Margaret
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Sister
AANS Born 1885 at Glen Innes, NSW Daughter of Richard Hayes COLLOPY and Margaret Maria nee CASSIDY Enlisted 20 March 1915 Aged 29 years Embarked 13 April 1915 Service in Egypt, France and England Promoted to Sister 03 April 1917 Returned to Australia 20 December 1918 per “Orontes” On Duty Appointment terminated 28 March 1919 Married Thomas Evan WHITTON Died 17 February 1983 in Brisbane, Qld. Aged 97 years Buried 21 February 1983 Mt Gravatt Cemetery ANZAC - 1 -C - 107 |
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COLMAN, Julia
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
Sunday Times 04 October 1914 page 29
CONDON, Elizabeth
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1865 at Ballarat, Vic.
Daughter of Maurice CONDON and Eliza nee CURTIN
Sister of Hannah RICE
Trained at Melbourne Hospital
Enlisted 12 July 1917
Aged 45 years
Embarked 31 August 1917
Service Salonika
Contracted Influenza November 1918
Invalided to Australia 26 December 1918 per “Wiltshire”
Discharged as medically unfit (post Influenza Debility) 04 June 1919
Did not marry
Died suddenly 16 September 1949 at home
Resided Flat 11 'Triona Court' Hawslelgh Avenue, East St. Kilda
Buried Melbourne Cemetery
AANS
Born 1865 at Ballarat, Vic.
Daughter of Maurice CONDON and Eliza nee CURTIN
Sister of Hannah RICE
Trained at Melbourne Hospital
Enlisted 12 July 1917
Aged 45 years
Embarked 31 August 1917
Service Salonika
Contracted Influenza November 1918
Invalided to Australia 26 December 1918 per “Wiltshire”
Discharged as medically unfit (post Influenza Debility) 04 June 1919
Did not marry
Died suddenly 16 September 1949 at home
Resided Flat 11 'Triona Court' Hawslelgh Avenue, East St. Kilda
Buried Melbourne Cemetery
CONDON, Helen Mary
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born Parkville, Vic.
Next of kin James CONDON
Enlisted 19 August 1916
Embarked 29 May 1917 per 'Khiva'
Posted to 34th Welsh General Hospital, Deolali for duty 25 June 1917
Resigned appointment due to marriage in India 12 February 1919
Married Cecil John HOWELL
She died on 10 October 1925 at Madura, India
AANS
Born Parkville, Vic.
Next of kin James CONDON
Enlisted 19 August 1916
Embarked 29 May 1917 per 'Khiva'
Posted to 34th Welsh General Hospital, Deolali for duty 25 June 1917
Resigned appointment due to marriage in India 12 February 1919
Married Cecil John HOWELL
She died on 10 October 1925 at Madura, India
Helen Condon was the daughter of Patrick and Ann née Carroll, both born in Tipperary, Ireland. Until his death in 1893, her father ran the Tasmania Hotel which was in Lonsdale Street, between Spring and Exhibition Streets on the corner of the now-disappeared Leichardt Street. According to her attestation when she enlisted on 3 May 1917, she had been born in Parkville and had completed four years of nursing training at St Vincent's. For many years she had been living at Miss McGeachie's nurses' home at 31 Collins Place, an extension of Exhibition Street between Collins and Flinders Streets. In 1910 numbers 33 and 35 were also boarding houses. Her attestation states that at the time of enlisting she was 32 years old, which indicates a birth year of 1885. But in fact her mother had died in 1884 following the birth of her fifth child and, although no birth registration has been found, Helen is likely to have been born in 1882. With both her parents dead, she named as next of kin her brother James, some seven years her senior, who since 1911 had been licensee of the Great Northern Hotel at 646 Rathdowne Street, North Carlton, on the corner of Pigdon Street. Before that, he and his wife Annie née Larkin had run a hotel in Peel Street, Collingwood. Her family too had a tradition of hotel-keeping and were associated with several such businesses in Gippsland. At the end of May 1917 Helen Condon embarked on the Khiva, no doubt never dreaming of how her life was about to change. By the middle of June she was in India where Australian nurses had been posted since September 1916. Over the following three years some 560 nurses served there, about 20% of the total overseas force. Many of them were unhappy about the posting as it was not considered to be a war zone and they would have preferred to be on the front line nursing Australian or at least Allied troops. But the placement was challenging nonetheless. Nurses found the tropical climate debilitating and encountered serious cultural and language problems with Indian orderlies and with the many Turkish patients, as many as 500 hundred at a time, evacuated from Mesopotamia (Iraq). There were other problems too. One nurse wrote that when electricity was finally connected to the hospital where she was, the nurses were "all delighted but each Sister still kept her hurricane lamp burning beside her bed at night, as snakes were very prevalent, many deadly ones such as Russell's Viper, Krait & Cobra having been killed, some in the Sisters' rooms. One Sister of our service was bitten at the Deccan War Hospital, Poona, but fortunately recovered.
Helen was posted to the 34th Welsh General Hospital at Deolali, five hours travel from Bombay. Large and rambling, this was the biggest of the Indian military hospitals with some 3000 beds. The matron made her inspections in a car provided by the Red Cross. Helen appears to have served more than 18 months in that hospital but her record tells us nothing of her personal experiences. By early 1919, with the war over, many of the nurses in India were preparing to return to Australia. Not so Helen Condon who resigned her appointment the day before she married an Englishman, Captain Cecil John Howell of the Buffs (East Kent) Regiment, in St Patrick's Church, Deolali on 12 February 1919. According to the official marriage record, the bridegroom was 35 and the bride 29, a discrepancy of five years compared with the age she stated on her attestation when enlisting. In fact she was probably a year or two older than her new husband, who was born about 1884.
The couple continued to live in Deolali, where a son Peter John was born almost exactly a year after their marriage. But Helen's happy new life was not to last. She died on 10 October 1925 at Madura, India, and in November her bereaved husband and five year old son returned to London from Rangoon, Burma, on the Warwickshire. In the same year her brother at the Great Northern Hotel received the army's standard letter about the delivery of war medals, his being the only address in their records. James continued as licensee there until 1936, after suffering the loss of his wife Annie in 1919, and died in 1952 at Burwood.
http://www.cchg.asn.au/greatwar.html
Helen was posted to the 34th Welsh General Hospital at Deolali, five hours travel from Bombay. Large and rambling, this was the biggest of the Indian military hospitals with some 3000 beds. The matron made her inspections in a car provided by the Red Cross. Helen appears to have served more than 18 months in that hospital but her record tells us nothing of her personal experiences. By early 1919, with the war over, many of the nurses in India were preparing to return to Australia. Not so Helen Condon who resigned her appointment the day before she married an Englishman, Captain Cecil John Howell of the Buffs (East Kent) Regiment, in St Patrick's Church, Deolali on 12 February 1919. According to the official marriage record, the bridegroom was 35 and the bride 29, a discrepancy of five years compared with the age she stated on her attestation when enlisting. In fact she was probably a year or two older than her new husband, who was born about 1884.
The couple continued to live in Deolali, where a son Peter John was born almost exactly a year after their marriage. But Helen's happy new life was not to last. She died on 10 October 1925 at Madura, India, and in November her bereaved husband and five year old son returned to London from Rangoon, Burma, on the Warwickshire. In the same year her brother at the Great Northern Hotel received the army's standard letter about the delivery of war medals, his being the only address in their records. James continued as licensee there until 1936, after suffering the loss of his wife Annie in 1919, and died in 1952 at Burwood.
http://www.cchg.asn.au/greatwar.html
CONE, Susie Watson
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 17 January 1888 at Melbourne, Vic.
Daughter of Charles CONE and Annie Charlotte nee TARDY
Aged 30 years
Enlisted 12 October 1918
Embarked 14 October 1918 in Sydney per “Wyreema”
Disembarked at Fremantle for Quarantine Duty 14 December 1918
Appointment terminated 26 February 1919
Married name STEVEN
Died 11 December 1967 in NSW
Late of Chatswood, NSW
AANS
Born 17 January 1888 at Melbourne, Vic.
Daughter of Charles CONE and Annie Charlotte nee TARDY
Aged 30 years
Enlisted 12 October 1918
Embarked 14 October 1918 in Sydney per “Wyreema”
Disembarked at Fremantle for Quarantine Duty 14 December 1918
Appointment terminated 26 February 1919
Married name STEVEN
Died 11 December 1967 in NSW
Late of Chatswood, NSW
CONIGRAVE, Helen Bertha
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 20 June 1880 at Adelaide, SA Daughter of Philip CONIGRAVE and Emily nee PINNEY Trained at Adelaide Hospital Enlisted 05 May 1917 at Keswick, SA Aged 36 years Embarked 12 May 1917 from Melbourne per 'Benalla' Service England and France Returned to Australia 18 January 1919 per “Margha” On Duty Appointment terminated 29 March 1919 Did not marry Died 08 April 1947 at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide Aged 66 years Died of Natural Causes Resided 390 Unley Road, Unley Park, SA Buried West Terrace Cemetery Road 4 Path 26 E 15 Photograph - The Chronicle Saturday 19 May 1917 page 25 |
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HELEN B. CONIGRAVE. R.B.N.A. A.T.N.A., Truby King Certificated,
Nunyara Private Hospital,
59 Unley road, Parkside.
SISTER HELEN CONIGRAVE
Sister Helen . B. Conigrave, who passed away last year, will be remembered to readers on Upper Eyre Peninsula for her work at the Kimba Hospital where she introduced the Truby King system of mothercraft. Kimba was the first town in South Australia to have a Plunkett circle.
Sister Conigrave served in World War I as sister-in-charge of the Hertfield Military Hospital and was later transferred to Le Havre in France. She was matron in charge of several nursing institutions in Australia and Tasmania where she was widely known for her nursing ability and general interest in mothercraft.
Port Lincoln Times Thursday 08 January 1948 page 9
Nunyara Private Hospital,
59 Unley road, Parkside.
SISTER HELEN CONIGRAVE
Sister Helen . B. Conigrave, who passed away last year, will be remembered to readers on Upper Eyre Peninsula for her work at the Kimba Hospital where she introduced the Truby King system of mothercraft. Kimba was the first town in South Australia to have a Plunkett circle.
Sister Conigrave served in World War I as sister-in-charge of the Hertfield Military Hospital and was later transferred to Le Havre in France. She was matron in charge of several nursing institutions in Australia and Tasmania where she was widely known for her nursing ability and general interest in mothercraft.
Port Lincoln Times Thursday 08 January 1948 page 9
CONNAH, Leah Elizabeth
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 1883 at Leichhardt, Sydney, NSW Daughter of Fredrick CONNAH and Mary Ellen nee HOWELL Enlisted 10 May 1917 Aged 34 years Embarked 12 June 1917 from Melbourne per 'Mooltan' Service in Salonika Contracted Influenza September 1918 Returned to Australia via America at own expense per “Niagara” Appointment terminated 20 September 1919 Did not marry Died 27 July 1964 in NSW |
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CONNOLLY, Cusha Syria Mary
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 1891 in Beechworth, Vic. Daughter of Thomas Augustus CONNOLLY and Celilia Ceily Margaret nee HOURIGAN Enlisted 22 May 1917 Embarked 12 June 1917 Resigned appointment due to marriage in Egypt 09 September 1918 Married 09 September 1918 William Wells Charles WEALE Resided in Cairo and England Died 28 August 1971 in St. Kilda, Vic. Aged 79 years Formerly of East St. Kilda, Vic. Buried St. Kilda Cemetery Roman Catholic Compartment A Grave 194 |
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CONNOLLY, Eileen Love
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Sister
AANS Born c1881 Daughter of Henry James CONNOLLY and Elizabeth nee BOULT Trained Alfred Hospital, Melbourne Enlisted 21 November 1914 Aged 33 years Embarked 05 December 1914 from Melbourne per “Kyarra” Service in England, on the field in France Promoted to Sister 01 December 1915 Returned to Australia 08 February 1919 per “Miltiades” Appointment terminated 12 April 1919 Did not marry Died 26 April 1979 in Caulfield, Vic. Cremated 30 April 1979 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery - remains collected |
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Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 889, position 27
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 33, position 2
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 889, position 27
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 33, position 2
CONNOLLY, Hilda Josephine
Masseuse
AANS
Born Hilda Josine CONNOLLY 31 May 1892 in Beechworth, near Chiltern, Vic.
Daughter of Edward CONNOLLY and Mary Frances nee McCLINTOCK
Aged 26 years
Enlisted 22 February 1919 in Vic.
Embarked 26 February 1919 per 'Karoola'
Duty on Hospital Ship ‘Karoola” only
Returned to Australia 24 June 1919 per “Karoola”
Appointment terminated 06 November 1919
Married WHITE
Resided Mathoura Road, Toorak, Vic.
Died 1975 at Heidelberg, Vic.
AANS
Born Hilda Josine CONNOLLY 31 May 1892 in Beechworth, near Chiltern, Vic.
Daughter of Edward CONNOLLY and Mary Frances nee McCLINTOCK
Aged 26 years
Enlisted 22 February 1919 in Vic.
Embarked 26 February 1919 per 'Karoola'
Duty on Hospital Ship ‘Karoola” only
Returned to Australia 24 June 1919 per “Karoola”
Appointment terminated 06 November 1919
Married WHITE
Resided Mathoura Road, Toorak, Vic.
Died 1975 at Heidelberg, Vic.
CONNOR, Elvy Agnes
Sister
AANS
Born Elvira Agnes CONNOR 18 August 1893 in Gin Gin, WA
Daughter of James CONNOR and Bridget nee O'NEIL
Of Spencer St Albany, WA
Trained 3 years Perth Public Hospital
Aged 23 years
Enlisted 16 June 1917 in Perth WA
Embarked 18 June 1917 in Fremantle per “Mooltan”
Service in Egypt & England
Promoted to Sister 12 July 1919
Returned to Australia per “Osterley” 28 September 1919
Appointment Terminated 16 November 1919
Did not marry
Died 26 October 1968 in WA
Aged 75 years
Resided Claremont, WA
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Roman Catholic Lawn 4 0136
AANS
Born Elvira Agnes CONNOR 18 August 1893 in Gin Gin, WA
Daughter of James CONNOR and Bridget nee O'NEIL
Of Spencer St Albany, WA
Trained 3 years Perth Public Hospital
Aged 23 years
Enlisted 16 June 1917 in Perth WA
Embarked 18 June 1917 in Fremantle per “Mooltan”
Service in Egypt & England
Promoted to Sister 12 July 1919
Returned to Australia per “Osterley” 28 September 1919
Appointment Terminated 16 November 1919
Did not marry
Died 26 October 1968 in WA
Aged 75 years
Resided Claremont, WA
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Roman Catholic Lawn 4 0136
CONWAY, Kathleen Lydia
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Sister
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Born 29 April 1891 at Fifth Creek, Montacute, SA Daughter of Archibald CONWAY and Frances Anna nee BIRT Embarked from Australia 08 April 1915 per 'Malwa' Enlisted 14 May 1915 Served in Egyptian Expeditionary Force Served for 6 months on the hospital ship 'Assaye' taking wounded from Gallipoli Continued service at Port Said and Cairo 88th General Hospital Cairo - March 1st, 1919 - Confidential Report 'Sister Kathleen L Conway QAIMNSR has been attached to this Hospital since January 8th, 1919. She has been in charge of Men's Surgical Division. Her work has been very good. She appears to be a thoroughly well trained nurse, reliable conscientious tactful, and very kind to the patients. She is neat, and is punctual on duty. Her ward has been kept in good order. Conduct very good. I consider her suitable for further Military Service. - A M PURCELL, Matron QAIMNSR.' Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class 03 June 1919 Demobilised 05 May 1919 Returned to Australia 07 May 1919 per 'Kildonian Castle' Married Saumel Arthur TURNER 27 October 1919 Died August 1979 Aged 88 years Buried Centennial Park Cemetery Acacia B Path BR Grave 909 Read more here |
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Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
03 June 1919 |
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CONYERS, Evelyn Augusta
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Matron
AANS Born 01 March 1870 at Invercargill, New Zealand Sister of Louisa CONYERS Enlisted 20 October 1914 at Melbourne, Vic. Embarked 21 November 1914 Appointment terminated 07 March 1920 Died 06 September 1944 in Melbourne, Vic. www.awm.gov.au H13757 |
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Mentioned in Despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 21 September 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2624, position 39
Date of London Gazette: 21 June 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 6184, position 31
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 21 September 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2624, position 39
Date of London Gazette: 21 June 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 6184, position 31
Awarded Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 21 September 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2622, position 31
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 5579, position 3
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 21 September 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2622, position 31
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 5579, position 3
Awarded Bar to Royal Red Cross
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 March 1920
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 392, position 37
Date of London Gazette: 12 December 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 15458, position 1
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 March 1920
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 392, position 37
Date of London Gazette: 12 December 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 15458, position 1
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 17 June 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1018, position 26
Date of London Gazette: 22 March 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 3838, position 1
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 17 June 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1018, position 26
Date of London Gazette: 22 March 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 3838, position 1
Awarded Florence Nightingale Medal
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Evelyn Conyers was appointed to the Order of the British Empire - Commander (Military) on 22 March 1919 for nursing service with the army during World War I. She had previously been awarded the Royal Red Cross on 3 June 1916.
http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0255b.htm Matron-in-chief Conyers pictured right with Matron Grace Wilson at Abbeville in 1917. Courier Mail Tuesday 13 February 1940 page 15 |
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HONOUR TO WAR NURSES.
RETURN OF MISS CONYERS, C.B.E., R.R.C.
The Australian honour roll is full of the highest records of unselfish patriotism and coupled with the names of the fighting men are those of the army nurses. Both have played a big part in war service. On Wednesday a notable return in nursing annals on the Orvieto was that of Miss Conyers, C.B.E.. R.R.C. (first class). Miss Conyers was Matron-in-chief, A.A.N.S. .A.I.F., and did heroic work in Egypt and in France. She has come back with the rank of major, won amid the dangers and anxieties of hospital life behind the lines. In 1914 Sister Conyers embarked from Melbourne and went to Egypt, where she was appointed matron. Later, she went to France. Matron Davidson, now in charge at Keswick, went out in the same vessel, and she was among the group of nurses who welcomed Miss Conyers on Wednesday and helped to entertain her and five other interstate nurses during the few hours that the Orvieto remained in port. At the Army Nurses' Club, Austral Gardens, the guests wore entertained at luncheon, and congratulated upon their'safe return. Miss Conyers remarked upon the providential escape of the Australian nurses from casualties; for, although they were frequency exposed to danger, there were no deaths, and only two suffered injury through bombing attacks. As more than 2,000 nurses were on duty, this record was remarkable.
—In at the Beginning.--
Time was limited for the recounting of experiences abroad, and these splendid army nurses are always reticent, but Miss Conyers was ready to pay a tribute to her companions. 'There are no words to express the unselfishness and wonderful work of the Australian nurses,' said Miss Conyers. 'Looking back now, the miracle, is how they got through the vast amount of duty, so often performed under disadvantages. They were beyond praise.' Asked of her own work, the Matron in Chief said she left Melbourne in October,1914, with 25 other nurses, on the transport that carried the first 20,000 men. With her was Miss C. M. Keys, of Brisbane, who also came back with her, and they were the last two of the original 26 to return. Miss Conyers spent seven months in the Egyptian Army Hospital at Cairo, which was lent to the Near Zealand troops, as they had no nurses. Then she went to Heliopolis and was subsequently promoted to her present status in December, 1915. This appointment carried the responsibility of all the nurses of the A.I.F. engaged, except those of India, and included Egypt, England, France, Salonika, and Italy. There was much organization involved, and then Miss Conyers left Egypt for London to take up duty at the A.I.F. Headquarters in London. Matters became serious in France, and two general hospitals were removed from Egypt to France. This meant continuous visits of the matron to that battle zone, and deeds were witnessed of men's gallantry and women's unselfishness that went to prove that chivalry was as much alive then as in the golden age. Wherever Miss Conyers went she heard commendation of the Australian nurses, and the Imperial medical officers also added their tributes.
—Two Nurses Wounded.--
When asked whether she had not sometimes felt, nervous while shells were bursting near — when bombing operations were in full force— the matron said, 'There was always too much else to think about. Helpless wounded men need all one's care and attention, and to save one's own skin never even occurs in thought. I always felt sorry for the patients who were not occupied by duty, and bad nothing to do but listen to the wreckage. Of course,' continued Miss Conyers, 'we got out of Fritz's range just as soon as ever we could, alwayw, and the tents were erected in such a way that the minimum of labour was involved in moving a whole hospital at brief notice. Sometimes the guns would be thundering, we would see the flash, and shells would burst near, yet we were miraculously spared. The only two Australian nurses wounded during the whole campaign were Sister Rachel Pratt, of Ballarat (Victoria), and Sister Eileen King, of Brisbane. Sister Pratt was in the raiding in Belgium in March, 1918. outside Bailleul, and they had orders to move hastily to Hazelbrouch, where they were again shelled. While bending over a patient Sister Pratt was struck in the back by flying shrapnel. The other nurse, Sister King received injuries to one of her legs. Miss Conyers beckoned a companion to her, and introduced Miss Loughran, of Victoria, one of 130 Australian nurses who had responded to the call of the Queen Alexandra Military Nursing Service Reserve. As matron at the Abbeville sisters' station, and of a hospital at Paris, Miss Loughran had quietly coped with such gigantic organization as housing and supervising 800 nurses in a month; sending them up from Abbeville to duty, or receiving them en-route from furlough. All the cooking for such crowds was done by two Australia V.A.D.'s, with one assistant.
—True Heroines. --
Miss Loughran said she remembered the wounding of Sister King. In France, in 1917, they were at a casualty clearing station, and the Germans commenced to badly shell the area. The day sisters had all gone to bed when warning was received, and the patients were prepared for quick transference. Sister King was amid the din, but took no notice until she was thrown down, and, being unable to move, it was found that she was struck in the thigh and calf of the let?. She is convalescent, but still unable to get about. Such is the substance of what Miss Conyers, who intends to resume hospital life in Melbourne, had to tell, and served to show that our nurses shared, as far as was allowed, the dangers with the men. If the general public realized the work being done by the local Returned Army Nurses' Club there would be a wider sympathy entertained. Many nurses, who came back shattered in health, would be in sore straits but for the kindly officers of Mrs. Kekwick, Mrs. Kelly, and their co-workers. Since June 30 £1,200 has been disbursed to nurses, partly to make up embarkation money, to provide a period convalescence, and also to give a grant to sick nurses who were ineligible for military or repatriation assistance. Their needs are as great as any of the returned men, yet they would never ask for help.
The Register Thursday 11 December 1919 page 8
RETURN OF MISS CONYERS, C.B.E., R.R.C.
The Australian honour roll is full of the highest records of unselfish patriotism and coupled with the names of the fighting men are those of the army nurses. Both have played a big part in war service. On Wednesday a notable return in nursing annals on the Orvieto was that of Miss Conyers, C.B.E.. R.R.C. (first class). Miss Conyers was Matron-in-chief, A.A.N.S. .A.I.F., and did heroic work in Egypt and in France. She has come back with the rank of major, won amid the dangers and anxieties of hospital life behind the lines. In 1914 Sister Conyers embarked from Melbourne and went to Egypt, where she was appointed matron. Later, she went to France. Matron Davidson, now in charge at Keswick, went out in the same vessel, and she was among the group of nurses who welcomed Miss Conyers on Wednesday and helped to entertain her and five other interstate nurses during the few hours that the Orvieto remained in port. At the Army Nurses' Club, Austral Gardens, the guests wore entertained at luncheon, and congratulated upon their'safe return. Miss Conyers remarked upon the providential escape of the Australian nurses from casualties; for, although they were frequency exposed to danger, there were no deaths, and only two suffered injury through bombing attacks. As more than 2,000 nurses were on duty, this record was remarkable.
—In at the Beginning.--
Time was limited for the recounting of experiences abroad, and these splendid army nurses are always reticent, but Miss Conyers was ready to pay a tribute to her companions. 'There are no words to express the unselfishness and wonderful work of the Australian nurses,' said Miss Conyers. 'Looking back now, the miracle, is how they got through the vast amount of duty, so often performed under disadvantages. They were beyond praise.' Asked of her own work, the Matron in Chief said she left Melbourne in October,1914, with 25 other nurses, on the transport that carried the first 20,000 men. With her was Miss C. M. Keys, of Brisbane, who also came back with her, and they were the last two of the original 26 to return. Miss Conyers spent seven months in the Egyptian Army Hospital at Cairo, which was lent to the Near Zealand troops, as they had no nurses. Then she went to Heliopolis and was subsequently promoted to her present status in December, 1915. This appointment carried the responsibility of all the nurses of the A.I.F. engaged, except those of India, and included Egypt, England, France, Salonika, and Italy. There was much organization involved, and then Miss Conyers left Egypt for London to take up duty at the A.I.F. Headquarters in London. Matters became serious in France, and two general hospitals were removed from Egypt to France. This meant continuous visits of the matron to that battle zone, and deeds were witnessed of men's gallantry and women's unselfishness that went to prove that chivalry was as much alive then as in the golden age. Wherever Miss Conyers went she heard commendation of the Australian nurses, and the Imperial medical officers also added their tributes.
—Two Nurses Wounded.--
When asked whether she had not sometimes felt, nervous while shells were bursting near — when bombing operations were in full force— the matron said, 'There was always too much else to think about. Helpless wounded men need all one's care and attention, and to save one's own skin never even occurs in thought. I always felt sorry for the patients who were not occupied by duty, and bad nothing to do but listen to the wreckage. Of course,' continued Miss Conyers, 'we got out of Fritz's range just as soon as ever we could, alwayw, and the tents were erected in such a way that the minimum of labour was involved in moving a whole hospital at brief notice. Sometimes the guns would be thundering, we would see the flash, and shells would burst near, yet we were miraculously spared. The only two Australian nurses wounded during the whole campaign were Sister Rachel Pratt, of Ballarat (Victoria), and Sister Eileen King, of Brisbane. Sister Pratt was in the raiding in Belgium in March, 1918. outside Bailleul, and they had orders to move hastily to Hazelbrouch, where they were again shelled. While bending over a patient Sister Pratt was struck in the back by flying shrapnel. The other nurse, Sister King received injuries to one of her legs. Miss Conyers beckoned a companion to her, and introduced Miss Loughran, of Victoria, one of 130 Australian nurses who had responded to the call of the Queen Alexandra Military Nursing Service Reserve. As matron at the Abbeville sisters' station, and of a hospital at Paris, Miss Loughran had quietly coped with such gigantic organization as housing and supervising 800 nurses in a month; sending them up from Abbeville to duty, or receiving them en-route from furlough. All the cooking for such crowds was done by two Australia V.A.D.'s, with one assistant.
—True Heroines. --
Miss Loughran said she remembered the wounding of Sister King. In France, in 1917, they were at a casualty clearing station, and the Germans commenced to badly shell the area. The day sisters had all gone to bed when warning was received, and the patients were prepared for quick transference. Sister King was amid the din, but took no notice until she was thrown down, and, being unable to move, it was found that she was struck in the thigh and calf of the let?. She is convalescent, but still unable to get about. Such is the substance of what Miss Conyers, who intends to resume hospital life in Melbourne, had to tell, and served to show that our nurses shared, as far as was allowed, the dangers with the men. If the general public realized the work being done by the local Returned Army Nurses' Club there would be a wider sympathy entertained. Many nurses, who came back shattered in health, would be in sore straits but for the kindly officers of Mrs. Kekwick, Mrs. Kelly, and their co-workers. Since June 30 £1,200 has been disbursed to nurses, partly to make up embarkation money, to provide a period convalescence, and also to give a grant to sick nurses who were ineligible for military or repatriation assistance. Their needs are as great as any of the returned men, yet they would never ask for help.
The Register Thursday 11 December 1919 page 8
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Miss Evelyn Augusta Conyers, C.B.E.,& R.R.C (1st Class and Bar) who was matron in chief on the Australian Imperial Force, has been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal. Miss Conyers has a fine record of service. She embarked in October 1914, with the first expeditionary force and served in hospitals in Egypt. At the end of 1915 she was appointed matron in chief at headquarters, Cairo, and in May 1916, was transferred to London and placed in charge of Australian nurses in the United Kingdom, France and Egypt. Miss Conyers returned to Australia in December 1919.
The Argus Saturday 05 March 1921 page 20 Photograph Punch Thursday 03 December 1914 page 26 |
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A.A.N.S Dies
MELBOURNE, Wed.— The death occurred today of Miss E. A. Conyers, matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service in the last war, for which service she was awarded the Royal Red Cross and CBE. She also received the rare decoration of the Florence Nightingale Medal from the Red Cross Society.
Mercury Thursday 7 September 1944 page 4
MELBOURNE, Wed.— The death occurred today of Miss E. A. Conyers, matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service in the last war, for which service she was awarded the Royal Red Cross and CBE. She also received the rare decoration of the Florence Nightingale Medal from the Red Cross Society.
Mercury Thursday 7 September 1944 page 4
COOK nee SHEPPARD, Elsie
Sister
AANS
2nd Australian General Hospital
Born 1890 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW
Daughter of Michael SHEPPARD and Harriet Maria nee WINTER
Of 'Kassala' Burwood, Sydney, NSW
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Married George Sydney COOK
Enlisted 05 February 1916 at Cairo, Egypt.
Aged 24 years
'On further inquiry it is learned that the above named Sister was married when mobilised, and took her maiden name 'Elsie Sheppard' she was mobilised in Tasmania, but embarked 2nd Military District in the 'Kyara' 24/11/14.
Returned ex 'Demosthenes' 22/4/16 and finalised 2nd M.D. 6/5/16.
Mobilised for Home Service 6/5/16, 2nd M.D. and placed on strenght of No 4 A G H she resigned on 29/6/16, to accept service with the Red Cross Society.'
Died 23 June 1972 in NSW
The Land (Sydney) Friday 10 November 1916 page 12
AANS
2nd Australian General Hospital
Born 1890 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW
Daughter of Michael SHEPPARD and Harriet Maria nee WINTER
Of 'Kassala' Burwood, Sydney, NSW
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Married George Sydney COOK
Enlisted 05 February 1916 at Cairo, Egypt.
Aged 24 years
'On further inquiry it is learned that the above named Sister was married when mobilised, and took her maiden name 'Elsie Sheppard' she was mobilised in Tasmania, but embarked 2nd Military District in the 'Kyara' 24/11/14.
Returned ex 'Demosthenes' 22/4/16 and finalised 2nd M.D. 6/5/16.
Mobilised for Home Service 6/5/16, 2nd M.D. and placed on strenght of No 4 A G H she resigned on 29/6/16, to accept service with the Red Cross Society.'
Died 23 June 1972 in NSW
The Land (Sydney) Friday 10 November 1916 page 12
A romantic meeting of a war bride with her husband is recorded in the case of Mrs. Sydney Cook, daughter-in-law of the leader of the Federal Opposition. She was Nurse Sheppard, of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, before she married Lieut. Cook, a few days prior to his leaving for the front. She took up her work again as a war-nurse, and while on duty in an Alexandria hospital, she heard a voice faintly calling, "Elsie, Elsie."
She turned and saw her wounded husband.
Queensland Figaro Saturday 17 July 1915 page 5
She turned and saw her wounded husband.
Queensland Figaro Saturday 17 July 1915 page 5
COOK, Ethel Macquarie
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 17 October 1890 in Bathurst, NSW Daughter of William Thomas and Jane COOK Age 31 years Enlisted 22 September 1919 Embarked 09 October 1919 per “Karoola” Service in England Returned to Australia 17 April 1919 per “Karoola” Appointment Terminated 05 August 1919 Re-enlisted 21 October 1919 with Army Medical Corps as Sister Duty in Rabaul, New Guinea as at 07 November 1919 Returned to Australia 30 September 1920 Appointment Terminated 02 April 1921, Medically Unfit Did not marry Died 30 July 1950 at Croydon, NSW Aged 64 years Buried Kelso Cemetery, NSW |
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COOK, Florence Beatrice
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born Florance Beatrice COOK 1890 in Albany, WA
Daughter of John Colin COOK and Mary Ann nee ROWLANDS
Enlisted 11 November 1915
Embarked 18 November 1915
Resigned appointment due to marriage in UK 02 March 1916
Married Captain Albert McLEOD 03 March 1917 in Cairo Egypt
Her husband was killed in Scotland in a shooting accident where he was recuperating after being wounded. He died on 5 December 1916. On 28 December 1916 Florence gave birth to their son Frederick Albert in Western Australia.
Died 28 May 1986
Cremated Centennial Park Cemetery, SA
AANS
Born Florance Beatrice COOK 1890 in Albany, WA
Daughter of John Colin COOK and Mary Ann nee ROWLANDS
Enlisted 11 November 1915
Embarked 18 November 1915
Resigned appointment due to marriage in UK 02 March 1916
Married Captain Albert McLEOD 03 March 1917 in Cairo Egypt
Her husband was killed in Scotland in a shooting accident where he was recuperating after being wounded. He died on 5 December 1916. On 28 December 1916 Florence gave birth to their son Frederick Albert in Western Australia.
Died 28 May 1986
Cremated Centennial Park Cemetery, SA
COOKE, Elsie Mary Emily
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Staff Nurse/Sister
A ANS Born 1885 at Auckland, New Zealand Daughter of Charles Edward COOKE and Marion Elizabeth nee PURCHAS Age 29 years Enlisted 13 April 1915 Duty with 14th AGH till embarkation Transport Duty from Egypt/Australia/England On Ships “Argyllshire” “Orsova” and “Ormonde” Promoted to Sister 03 April 1917 Returned to Australia 26 July 1919 per “Demosthenes” On Duty Appointment Terminated 18 November 1919 Married Clayton Lewis TIMPERLEY 29 October 1920 at Armadale, Vic. Died 24 July 1976 in WA with ashes scattered at Karrakatta Cemetery |
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Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 6 October 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1462, position 33
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 6930, position 4
'For her valuable service with the British Forces in Egypt'
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 6 October 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1462, position 33
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 6930, position 4
'For her valuable service with the British Forces in Egypt'
COOM, Grace Warthall
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 11 April 1885 at Christchurch, New Zealand Daughter of Austin COOM and Emma nee DIXON Age 33 years Enlisted 04 September 1918 Embarked 09 November 1918 in Sydney per “Wiltshire” Service in India Invalided to Australia 03 August 1919per “Pilsna” Appointment Terminated 27 September 1919 Married Henry George BARNS Died 12 June 1981 in Qld. Aged 98 years Buried Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery Qld 10A 242 |
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COOMBES, Annie Isobel (Nance)
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Sister
AANS Born 1883 Cassilis, NSW Daughter of William and Sarah Ann COOMBES Age 26 years Enlisted 07 November 1914 in Egypt Embarked 28 November 1914 in Sydney per “Kyarra” Service Egypt, France Promoted to Sister 01 December 1915 Returned to Australia 11 January 1919 per “Osterly” On Duty Appointment terminated 29 April 1919 Did not marry Died 01 April 1945 in NSW Late of Cremorne, NSW |
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Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 July 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1171, position 27
Date of London Gazette: 9 April 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 4680, position 1
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 July 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1171, position 27
Date of London Gazette: 9 April 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 4680, position 1
COOMBES, Vera Rachel
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 02 June 1888 at Goodwood Park, SA
Daughter of William Green COOMBES and Martha nee SHEPLEY
Address Marlborough St, Malvern SA
Training at Adelaide General Hospital – Gold Medal winner
Age 29 years
Reported for duty at 7th AGH 09 September 1918
Volunteered to nurse influenza in WA
Left by East West Rail to WA 28 December 1918
Returned to SA by East West Rail 21 July 1919
Demobilized 05 August 1919
Did not marry
Died 30 June 1983 at Kingswood, SA
Cremated Centennial Park Cemetery
AANS
Born 02 June 1888 at Goodwood Park, SA
Daughter of William Green COOMBES and Martha nee SHEPLEY
Address Marlborough St, Malvern SA
Training at Adelaide General Hospital – Gold Medal winner
Age 29 years
Reported for duty at 7th AGH 09 September 1918
Volunteered to nurse influenza in WA
Left by East West Rail to WA 28 December 1918
Returned to SA by East West Rail 21 July 1919
Demobilized 05 August 1919
Did not marry
Died 30 June 1983 at Kingswood, SA
Cremated Centennial Park Cemetery
COOMER, Lillian
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Sister
AANS Born 1888 in Perth, WA Daughter of Michael COOMER and Ellen nee STOKES Enlisted 23 August 1915 Embarked 13 August 1915 Appointment terminated 24 November 1919 Married George William WHITE in 1921 at Johannesberg, South Africa Resided in South Africa - husband died in 1928 Died 05 November 1979 in Perth, WA Cremated Karrakatta Cemetery A correspondent writes: "An interesting wedding took place recently in Johannesburg. The contracting parties were Miss Lilian Coomer, eldest daughter of the late Mr. M. Coomer, J.P., Lake Ninan, Wongan Hills, Western Australia, and Mr. Geo. W. White, of Parkview, eldest son of Mr. J. W.White, of Perth. Both bride and bride-groom served in the war. Mr. White went to England with the Australian corps of technical experts, but was permitted to join the French army, and served with the famous 45th Division,while Miss Coomer saw service with the Australian army nursing service in Egypt, England, and France, and with the army of occupation in Germany. Sisters C. MacGillivray and A. Tait, who also served with the Australian army from the beginning to the end of the war, accompanied their friend and colleague from Australia to be Miss Coomer's bridesmaids, and are so enamored with sunny South Africa and Johannesburg in particular that they may make the Rand their home." Sunday Times Sunday 31 July 1921 page 23 Photograph Western Mail Thursday 03 July 1919 page 23 |
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COONAN, Hannah Bridget
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Staff Nurse/Sister
AANS Born 1886 at Paddington, NSW Daughter of Matthew and Mary COONAN Sister of Daniel COONAN Age 29 years Enlisted 19 June 1915 Embarked 14 July 1915 Service England and France Promoted to Sister 01 October 1918 Returned to Australia 02 January 1919 per “Karmala” On Duty Appointment terminated 06 June 1919 Married Harold Stanley DICKINSON in 1922 Died 28 November 1946 at Woolahra, NSW Late of Bellevue Hill, NSW |
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COOPER, Alice Mary
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Matron
AANS Born 1864 in Woolongong, NSW Daughter of Charles COOPER and Mary Ann nee SCOTT Age 50 years Enlisted 19 June 1915 Matron of No1 Hospital Ship “Karoola” throughout the War Embarked 14 July 1915 Appointment terminated 10 March 1919 Died 07 September 1955 at Manly, NSW Aged 90 years |
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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 21 Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917 Location in London Gazette: Page 1950, position 1 
Awarded Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 March 1920 Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 392, position 38 Date of London Gazette: 12 December 1919 Location in London Gazette: Page 15458, position 2 |
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COOPER nee BRIGG, Florence Jane
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Nurse
Belgian Red Cross She was born Florence Jane Brigg in NSW in 1876, the daughter of Henry Albert Brigg and Jane Florence nee Cook. She married Edward Samuel Cohen in 1909 however they were divorced the same year. She said she was a widow but her ex husband did not die until 1928. She must have changed her name to Cooper at some stage. Her name crops up in the 1905's over her father'will (he lived to be a 103 years). She died in Annandale, NSW in 1962. An Australian Nurse recently returned form overseas is Nurse F Cooper, who has had the unique privilege of nursing in a Belgian Hospital. Nurse Cooper who is a daughter of Mr. H H Brice of Epping, offered her services to the Belgian Consul when war first broke out. Armed with letters of introduction the Australian Nurse left for England on November 26 1914 and there became attached to King Alberts No 1 Belgian Hospital. |
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After 2 months service she took work in the Australian Red Cross and in the Anzac Unit. The Australian nurse was determined to get to Belgium but the difficulties were great as the War Office was opposed to Australian Nurses going there. However, in time the difficulties were overcome and in 1917 Nurse Cooper joined the Belgian Red Cross and was appointed to the Queen of Belgium's Ambulance in La Panne.
I had a trying time on my trip to Belgium, she said. My finger prints were taken frequently on the journey and my photos and papers inspected. A verbal statement of my credentials was not sufficient. Because I omitted to report on landing, the gendarmes visited the hospital the next day, and I was not allowed to leave the enclosure for ten days.
During that time the officials made inquiries as to Nurse Coopers statements. The hospital or ambulance, as it was called, was established in what was formerly a fine seven storey hotel. It was beautifully fitted up, and each ward had it's own operating theatre. Pavilions were built on every piece of vacant land available. It was near the firing line and in 20 minutes the wounded could be brought in. The ambulance was always waiting in readiness, and on one occasion 1000 wounded were received in one night.
Dr. Depage, who, Nurse Cooper says, was the colonel of the hospital, first brought over Nurse Edith Cavell to teach the Belgians how to nurse. He was very proud of the hospital, the funds for which he had collected in England, and it was while going on a visit to America to make an appeal there that his wife met her death in the ill-fated Lusitania. A great boon to the nurses was a splendidly fitted up club in q quaint old hotel, with picturesque furnishings. It meant instant dismissal if the nurses (Belgian and English) were seen in hotels or restaurants but they were allowed to entertain their friends at tea in the club. During Nurse Cooper's time, the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company was stationed in La Panne, and she had an opportunity of entertaining the Australian soldiers. The village was continually being shelled, and the noise, added to the rumbling of the ambulance over the cobble stones day and night, incessantly, was nerve-racking.
Nurse Cooper was in La Panne in July 1917, when the English came over and took Nieuport from the French and Belgians. The shelling from that time increased alarmingly, the back room of the hospital was blown out, and it became dangerous to work the lift. The nurses were called out, and told if they remained it was at their own risk. Nurse Cooper said that she would not leave, as there were Australian soldiers in the hospital, and a few English nursed remained. Eventually, however, the place had to be vacated. Nurse Cooper says the trains packed with refugees were shelled and many killed. The Queen came to the station to bid them good-bye, and gave sweets to the children. It was pathetic, she said, to see the people carrying their things away in carts, and even in perambulators. Nurse Cooper intended returned if things became quieter, but as she would not be allowed to return, came back to Australia.
Evening News Thursday 11 July 1918 page 4
I had a trying time on my trip to Belgium, she said. My finger prints were taken frequently on the journey and my photos and papers inspected. A verbal statement of my credentials was not sufficient. Because I omitted to report on landing, the gendarmes visited the hospital the next day, and I was not allowed to leave the enclosure for ten days.
During that time the officials made inquiries as to Nurse Coopers statements. The hospital or ambulance, as it was called, was established in what was formerly a fine seven storey hotel. It was beautifully fitted up, and each ward had it's own operating theatre. Pavilions were built on every piece of vacant land available. It was near the firing line and in 20 minutes the wounded could be brought in. The ambulance was always waiting in readiness, and on one occasion 1000 wounded were received in one night.
Dr. Depage, who, Nurse Cooper says, was the colonel of the hospital, first brought over Nurse Edith Cavell to teach the Belgians how to nurse. He was very proud of the hospital, the funds for which he had collected in England, and it was while going on a visit to America to make an appeal there that his wife met her death in the ill-fated Lusitania. A great boon to the nurses was a splendidly fitted up club in q quaint old hotel, with picturesque furnishings. It meant instant dismissal if the nurses (Belgian and English) were seen in hotels or restaurants but they were allowed to entertain their friends at tea in the club. During Nurse Cooper's time, the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company was stationed in La Panne, and she had an opportunity of entertaining the Australian soldiers. The village was continually being shelled, and the noise, added to the rumbling of the ambulance over the cobble stones day and night, incessantly, was nerve-racking.
Nurse Cooper was in La Panne in July 1917, when the English came over and took Nieuport from the French and Belgians. The shelling from that time increased alarmingly, the back room of the hospital was blown out, and it became dangerous to work the lift. The nurses were called out, and told if they remained it was at their own risk. Nurse Cooper said that she would not leave, as there were Australian soldiers in the hospital, and a few English nursed remained. Eventually, however, the place had to be vacated. Nurse Cooper says the trains packed with refugees were shelled and many killed. The Queen came to the station to bid them good-bye, and gave sweets to the children. It was pathetic, she said, to see the people carrying their things away in carts, and even in perambulators. Nurse Cooper intended returned if things became quieter, but as she would not be allowed to return, came back to Australia.
Evening News Thursday 11 July 1918 page 4
COOPER, Ilma Myrtle
Sister
AANS
No 2 AGH
Born 1885 at Glebe, NSW
Daughter of John COOPER and Annabella nee WILSON
Address Macleay St, Potts Point, NSW
Age 27 years
Enlisted 12 August 1915
Embarked 21 August 1915 per “Morea”
Extensive Service Egypt, France and England
Promoted Sister 01 October 1918
Returned to Australia per “Kashmir” 09 March 1919
Appointment Terminated 24 June 1919
Married Herbert Charles Lewis MARKS in 1920
Died 12 May 1968 in NSW
Late of Vaucluse, NSW
AANS
No 2 AGH
Born 1885 at Glebe, NSW
Daughter of John COOPER and Annabella nee WILSON
Address Macleay St, Potts Point, NSW
Age 27 years
Enlisted 12 August 1915
Embarked 21 August 1915 per “Morea”
Extensive Service Egypt, France and England
Promoted Sister 01 October 1918
Returned to Australia per “Kashmir” 09 March 1919
Appointment Terminated 24 June 1919
Married Herbert Charles Lewis MARKS in 1920
Died 12 May 1968 in NSW
Late of Vaucluse, NSW
Mentioned in Despatches 27 December 1918
5th Supplement London Gazette 31089
Commonwealth Gazette No 61 – 23 May 1919
5th Supplement London Gazette 31089
Commonwealth Gazette No 61 – 23 May 1919
COOTE, Eva FrancesStaff Nurse
AANS 14th Australian General Hospital Born 25 October 1885 at Normanby Hill, Qld. Daughter of Samuel Thomas COOTE and Fanny Frances nee LAMBERT Of Ithaca Street, Normanby Hill, Qld. Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse Enlisted 02 June 1917 Embarked 12 June 1917 Served in Egypt Returned to Australia 05 July 1919 per 'Orari' Discharged as medically unfit 08 August 1919 Married George Ellis DOOLAN in 1953 Died 13 March 1974 in Redcliffe, Qld. Queenslanders who fought in the Great War |
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COPE, Adelaide Hazel
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 07 February 1892 at Mount Barker, SA
Daughter of Sydney COPE and Ellen Maria nee SMITH
Sister of Mrs. Sands
Address 219 Main North Rd. Sefton Park, SA
Training at Adelaide General Hospital
Aged 26 years
Reported for duty at 7thAGH 28 December 1918
Volunteered to nurse influenza 10 April 1919
Duty at Adelaide Local Board of Health in connection with influenza outbreak
Demobilized 13 July 1919
Married Arthur ANDERSON 15 December 1920 in Prospect, SA
Died 1969 in Wentworth, NSW
AANS
Born 07 February 1892 at Mount Barker, SA
Daughter of Sydney COPE and Ellen Maria nee SMITH
Sister of Mrs. Sands
Address 219 Main North Rd. Sefton Park, SA
Training at Adelaide General Hospital
Aged 26 years
Reported for duty at 7thAGH 28 December 1918
Volunteered to nurse influenza 10 April 1919
Duty at Adelaide Local Board of Health in connection with influenza outbreak
Demobilized 13 July 1919
Married Arthur ANDERSON 15 December 1920 in Prospect, SA
Died 1969 in Wentworth, NSW
COPEMAN, Essena Myra
Nurse
Queen Alexandria's Imperial Nursing Service Reserve
Born as Essena Myra COPEMAN in 1881 at Narrabri, NSW
Daughter of Arthur Nelson Pigou COPEMAN and Elizabeth nee QUINN
Embarked from Australia 06 April 1915 per 'Malwa' as M COPEMAN
Returned to Australia 08 May 1919 per 'Roda'
Did not marry
Died 29 August 1950 at Pymble, NSW
Queen Alexandria's Imperial Nursing Service Reserve
Born as Essena Myra COPEMAN in 1881 at Narrabri, NSW
Daughter of Arthur Nelson Pigou COPEMAN and Elizabeth nee QUINN
Embarked from Australia 06 April 1915 per 'Malwa' as M COPEMAN
Returned to Australia 08 May 1919 per 'Roda'
Did not marry
Died 29 August 1950 at Pymble, NSW
Nurse Ena Copeman, another ex-pupil of the school, who was at the front during the whole period of the war. Miss Copeman is a native of Narrabri, as was her mother before her, her father, Mr. A. Copeman having been the first Stock Inspector in Narrabri, while her maternal grandfather was the late Patrick Quinn, who, we understand, was Narrabri's very first settler. The Nurse and her soldier comrades were taken round to the various classrooms and introduced to the scholars by the Head Master (Mr. Hodge), after which on adjournment was made, to the School of Arts Hall, where the welcome speeches were delivered. The Narrabri Scout Troop mustered at the school and acted as a guard of honor.
The North Western Courier Thursday 09 October 1919 page 2
The North Western Courier Thursday 09 October 1919 page 2
COPLEY, Sarah Louisa
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 24 October 1876 at Black Rock, SA Daughter of Hon. William COPLEY and Mary Ann nee MARSH Of Lockleys, SA Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse Enlisted 25 August 1916 Embarked 29 December 1918 Aged 40 years Served in France Returned to Australia 24 February 1919 per 'City of York' Appointment terminated 30 April 1919 Did not marry Died 16 March 1953 at Private Hospital, Malvern, SA Aged 76 years Resided 278 Seaview Road, Henley South, SA Buried West Terrace Cemetery Eyre South 4s W 30 |
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CORFIELD, Agnes Beryl
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Staff Nurse
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service 15th General Hospital Born 27 April 1891 in Qld. Daughter of George Edward CORFIELD and Agnes Mary nee JAMES Of 'Glenapp' via Beaudesert, Qld. Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse Embarked from Australia 15 May 1915 per 'Mooltan' Aged 25 years Died 02 February 1916 of Typhoid at 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt Buried Alexandria Chatby Military Cemetery Q 561 Read more here |
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DEATH OF A NURSE.
Advice has been received in Brisbane of the death at Alexandria, Egypt, on February 2, of Sister Agnes Beryl Corfield. The late Sister Corfield, who was 24 years of age, was a native of Brisbane. She was educated at Maryborough, and was trained in the Brisbane General Hospital. She resigned an appointment in Maryborough to go to the Front early last May. For some time she was doing transport work from the Peninsula to Alexandria. She was also sent to Southampton with convalescents, and then back to Alexandria, where she was on duty at the time of her death. The Queenslander Saturday 12 February 1916 page 15 |
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CORKHILL, Pearl Elizabeth
Sister
AANS
Born 11 March 1887 at Tilba Tilba, NSW
Daughter of William Henry CORKHILL and Frances Hawtrey nee BATE
Of Tilba Tilba, NSW
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Aged 28 years
Enlisted 04 June 1915
Embarked 26 June 1915
Served in France
Returned to Australia 14 March 1919 per 'Ceramic'
Discharged as medically unfit 22 June 1919
Died 04 December 1985
Aged 98 years
Formerly of Tilba Tilba, NSW
Buried Narooma Cemetery
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A04728
AANS
Born 11 March 1887 at Tilba Tilba, NSW
Daughter of William Henry CORKHILL and Frances Hawtrey nee BATE
Of Tilba Tilba, NSW
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Aged 28 years
Enlisted 04 June 1915
Embarked 26 June 1915
Served in France
Returned to Australia 14 March 1919 per 'Ceramic'
Discharged as medically unfit 22 June 1919
Died 04 December 1985
Aged 98 years
Formerly of Tilba Tilba, NSW
Buried Narooma Cemetery
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A04728
Awarded Military Medal
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 12 December 1918 Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2348, position 20 Date of London Gazette: 23 August 1918 Location in London Gazette: Page 9807, position 1 'For courage and devotion on the occasion of an enemy air raid. She continued to attend to the wounded without any regard to her own safety, though enemy air-craft were overhead. Her axample was of the greatest value in allaying the alarm of the patients.' |
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Elizabeth Pearl Corkhill (1887-1985), nurse, was born on 11 March 1887 at Tilba Tilba, New South Wales, second of three children of William Henry Corkhill, grazier, cheesemaker and photographer, and his wife Frances Hawtrey, née Bate. Samuel Bate was her great-grandfather. Pearl grew up on her father’s property, Marengo, received her early education from a governess and later attended Tilba Tilba Public School. After training at Burilda private hospital, Summer Hill, Sydney, she graduated as a general nurse in 1914. On 4 June 1915 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service, Australian Imperial Force, as a staff nurse. She was 5 ft 8 ins (173 cm) tall, with grey eyes and brown hair.
Posted to the 1st Australian General Hospital, Corkhill arrived in Egypt in July 1915. From August to January 1916 she was at the Choubra Military Infectious Hospital, where she tended sick troops from the Gallipoli campaign. Reaching France in April, she served at the 2nd British General Hospital, Le Havre. A notable occasion for her was the AIF’s first celebration of Anzac Day. To mark the event she and two other Australian nurses wore green gum leaves with the inscription `Dardanelles 1915’. She rejoined the 1st AGH at Rouen in June 1916.
In June-August 1918 Corkhill was attached to the 38th British Casualty Clearing Station, near Abbeville. On one night in July the CCS suffered an air raid during which Corkhill `continued to attend to the wounded without any regard for her own safety’. For her `courage and devotion’ she was awarded the Military Medal, becoming one of only seven Australian nurses to receive that award during World War I. Her only comment was that she would have to face `old George and Mary [King George V and Queen Mary] to get the medal’ and that it would cost her a new mess dress as her old one was worn out. Transferred to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, London, in August, she was promoted to sister in October.
Corkhill returned to Australia in March 1919 and her AANS appointment terminated on 22 June. She held various private nursing positions both in Australia and overseas until, in 1951, she was appointed as senior sister at Bega District Hospital, New South Wales. In 1961 Sister Corkhill, as she was always known, retired to Akolele, overlooking Wallaga Lake. Greatly respected in the district, she was often asked to preside at local occasions. A skilful horsewoman, she also led the parade for the centenary of the Cooma Show in 1975.
A major achievement of Corkhill’s old age was the donation to the National Library of Australia of about one thousand glass plate negatives of photographs taken by her father in the Tilba Tilba area between 1890 and 1910. Apart from family photos, William Corkhill’s images documented with astonishing clarity the people and the social and economic life of this remote dairying area. The library was able to print some 840 of the plates and in 1976 produced an engagement calendar, Coast and Country, using fifty-three of them. In 1983 the library published Taken at Tilba, a selection of seventy-eight of these photographs. Pearl Corkhill’s knowledge of the history and people of Tilba Tilba assisted greatly with the captioning of the collection and she took much satisfaction in knowing that her family had added to the nation’s historic collections.
Corkhill died on 4 December 1985 at Dalmeny and was buried with Anglican rites in Narooma cemetery. She had never married. Her MM and other service medals are held by the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
by Richard E. Reid
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007
Posted to the 1st Australian General Hospital, Corkhill arrived in Egypt in July 1915. From August to January 1916 she was at the Choubra Military Infectious Hospital, where she tended sick troops from the Gallipoli campaign. Reaching France in April, she served at the 2nd British General Hospital, Le Havre. A notable occasion for her was the AIF’s first celebration of Anzac Day. To mark the event she and two other Australian nurses wore green gum leaves with the inscription `Dardanelles 1915’. She rejoined the 1st AGH at Rouen in June 1916.
In June-August 1918 Corkhill was attached to the 38th British Casualty Clearing Station, near Abbeville. On one night in July the CCS suffered an air raid during which Corkhill `continued to attend to the wounded without any regard for her own safety’. For her `courage and devotion’ she was awarded the Military Medal, becoming one of only seven Australian nurses to receive that award during World War I. Her only comment was that she would have to face `old George and Mary [King George V and Queen Mary] to get the medal’ and that it would cost her a new mess dress as her old one was worn out. Transferred to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, London, in August, she was promoted to sister in October.
Corkhill returned to Australia in March 1919 and her AANS appointment terminated on 22 June. She held various private nursing positions both in Australia and overseas until, in 1951, she was appointed as senior sister at Bega District Hospital, New South Wales. In 1961 Sister Corkhill, as she was always known, retired to Akolele, overlooking Wallaga Lake. Greatly respected in the district, she was often asked to preside at local occasions. A skilful horsewoman, she also led the parade for the centenary of the Cooma Show in 1975.
A major achievement of Corkhill’s old age was the donation to the National Library of Australia of about one thousand glass plate negatives of photographs taken by her father in the Tilba Tilba area between 1890 and 1910. Apart from family photos, William Corkhill’s images documented with astonishing clarity the people and the social and economic life of this remote dairying area. The library was able to print some 840 of the plates and in 1976 produced an engagement calendar, Coast and Country, using fifty-three of them. In 1983 the library published Taken at Tilba, a selection of seventy-eight of these photographs. Pearl Corkhill’s knowledge of the history and people of Tilba Tilba assisted greatly with the captioning of the collection and she took much satisfaction in knowing that her family had added to the nation’s historic collections.
Corkhill died on 4 December 1985 at Dalmeny and was buried with Anglican rites in Narooma cemetery. She had never married. Her MM and other service medals are held by the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
by Richard E. Reid
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007
CORKILL, Daisy Valerie
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Sister
AANS Born 29 January 1884 in Ballarat, Vic. Daughter of T W CORKILL Of Shepparton, Vic. Trained Corowa Hospital, NSW Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse Enlisted 10 June 1915 Embarked 17 July 1915 Attached to staff of 'Kanowna' from 17 July 1915 Arrived England 26 August 1916 Returned to Australia 07 September 1916 Embarked 26 November 1917 from Melbourne per 'Indarra' Temporary Matron No 3 Sec Sea Transport Embarked 05 June 1918 per 'Kanowna' from Sydney, NSW Served in England No 2 Australian Auxillary Hospital at Southall Returned to Australia 19 April 1918 from Capetown per 'Orontes' Discharged as medically unfit 01 June 1919 Married ENGLAND Died 26 October 1959 at Lady Gowrie Red Cross Home. Photograph Table Talk Thursday 26 August 1915 page 3 Punch Thursday 29 July 1915 page 21 |
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CORNISH, Ella Gwendolin
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 17 July 1885 at Kensington Park, SA
Daughter of John CORNISH and Sarah Elizabeth nee PAPPIN
Age 31 years
Enlisted 01 December 1916
Embarked 09 May 1917 in Sydney per “Ulysses”
Service in England and on the field in France
Returned to Australia 06 August 1919 per “Orita” On Duty
Appointment Terminated 08 October 1919
Did not marry
Died 1960 in Heidelberg, Vic.
Cremated 02 November 1960 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery - remains collected
AANS
Born 17 July 1885 at Kensington Park, SA
Daughter of John CORNISH and Sarah Elizabeth nee PAPPIN
Age 31 years
Enlisted 01 December 1916
Embarked 09 May 1917 in Sydney per “Ulysses”
Service in England and on the field in France
Returned to Australia 06 August 1919 per “Orita” On Duty
Appointment Terminated 08 October 1919
Did not marry
Died 1960 in Heidelberg, Vic.
Cremated 02 November 1960 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery - remains collected
Mentioned in despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 30 October 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1657, position 35
Date of London Gazette: 11 July 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 8835, position 57
Appointment terminated 08 October 1919
Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches for conspicuous service
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 30 October 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1657, position 35
Date of London Gazette: 11 July 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 8835, position 57
Appointment terminated 08 October 1919
Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches for conspicuous service
CORNWELL, Edith
Matron
AANS
Born 1868 at Melbourne, Vic.
Daughter of Henry CORNWELL and Isabella nee WINTER
Sister of Alexander CORNWELL
Enlisted 26 February 1915
Embarked 10 April 1915
Appointment terminated 18 September 1919
Died 26 May 1955 at Heidelberg House, Heidelberg
Aged 82 years
Resided Heidelberg, Vic.
Buried 27 May 1955 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery
AANS
Born 1868 at Melbourne, Vic.
Daughter of Henry CORNWELL and Isabella nee WINTER
Sister of Alexander CORNWELL
Enlisted 26 February 1915
Embarked 10 April 1915
Appointment terminated 18 September 1919
Died 26 May 1955 at Heidelberg House, Heidelberg
Aged 82 years
Resided Heidelberg, Vic.
Buried 27 May 1955 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery
Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 22
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1950, position 2
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 22
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1950, position 2
Awarded Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 889, position 20
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 33, position 21
"For conspicuous devotion to duty and distinguished services as Matron of No. 1 Australian General Hospital"
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 889, position 20
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 33, position 21
"For conspicuous devotion to duty and distinguished services as Matron of No. 1 Australian General Hospital"
ARMY NURSE HONOURED
Medal Award
An Australian army nurse, Miss Edith Cornwell, of Victoria, has fallen the distinction of being awarded by the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva the Florence Nightingale medal for distinguished service on the battlefield. Only 57 similar medals have been awarded, and of these two are held by nurses living in Victoria. Miss Evelyn Conyers. R.R.C. and Miss Grace Wilson, R.R.C., who is principal matron of the Army 'Medical Service, and matron of the Alfred Hospital. The Medal is of picturesque and tunsual design, with a figure of Florence Nightingale on one side. It is worn on the right side, as it is not a military decoration. Lady Isaacs presented the medal to Miss Cornwell when visiting Melbourne recently. Miss Cornwell has had a most distinguished nursing career. She trained at the Alfred and Women's Hospitals, Melbourne, and enlisted in December, 1914. After a few months as matron of Osborne House. Geelong, she embarked in April, 1915 on the Kyarra, a nurse and troopship. She was appointed sub-matron of No. 1 Auxiliary Hospital, Luna Park, Heliopolis, Egypt, and afterwards was matron of the second auxiliary hospital at Atelier. During subsequent years of the war she served as matron in- turn at an Australian base hospital at Croydon, England and in France. After the war she was matron of the Caulfield Military Hospital, and later of the Returned Soldiers' Sanatorium, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales. Ten years ago she became matron of the Victorian Child Welfare Depot at Royal Park. Miss Cornwell has several decorations, including the R.R.C. second class, Egypt, 1916 and the R.R.C., first class, France, 1918. She was also mentioned in despatches. She is one of the best known of Australian nurses, and has been described as one of the best loved of the valiant band of Army Nurses.
News Adelaide Wednesday 27 September 1933 page 10
Medal Award
An Australian army nurse, Miss Edith Cornwell, of Victoria, has fallen the distinction of being awarded by the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva the Florence Nightingale medal for distinguished service on the battlefield. Only 57 similar medals have been awarded, and of these two are held by nurses living in Victoria. Miss Evelyn Conyers. R.R.C. and Miss Grace Wilson, R.R.C., who is principal matron of the Army 'Medical Service, and matron of the Alfred Hospital. The Medal is of picturesque and tunsual design, with a figure of Florence Nightingale on one side. It is worn on the right side, as it is not a military decoration. Lady Isaacs presented the medal to Miss Cornwell when visiting Melbourne recently. Miss Cornwell has had a most distinguished nursing career. She trained at the Alfred and Women's Hospitals, Melbourne, and enlisted in December, 1914. After a few months as matron of Osborne House. Geelong, she embarked in April, 1915 on the Kyarra, a nurse and troopship. She was appointed sub-matron of No. 1 Auxiliary Hospital, Luna Park, Heliopolis, Egypt, and afterwards was matron of the second auxiliary hospital at Atelier. During subsequent years of the war she served as matron in- turn at an Australian base hospital at Croydon, England and in France. After the war she was matron of the Caulfield Military Hospital, and later of the Returned Soldiers' Sanatorium, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales. Ten years ago she became matron of the Victorian Child Welfare Depot at Royal Park. Miss Cornwell has several decorations, including the R.R.C. second class, Egypt, 1916 and the R.R.C., first class, France, 1918. She was also mentioned in despatches. She is one of the best known of Australian nurses, and has been described as one of the best loved of the valiant band of Army Nurses.
News Adelaide Wednesday 27 September 1933 page 10
CORNWELL.—On May 26, 1955 at Heidelberg House, Heidelberg, Matron Edith Cornwell, R.R.C., A.A.N.S. (retired), daughter of the late Henry and Isabella Cornwell, loving sister of Isabella, Norman, Alice Cochrane, Bessie Stone, Annie Adams (deceased), Edmund deceased), Harry (deceased), Frank (deceased), and Alex (deceased).
CORRELL, Stella Daisy
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 23 December 1888 at Port Vincent, SA
Daughter of Robert CORRELL and Margaret Smith nee COWLEY
Aged 29 years
Trained at Adelaide Hospital
Enlisted 03 February 1919 and reported for duty at No 7 AGH
Aged 29 years
Did not proceed overseas
Sent to Metropolitan G Rd. 28 February 1919 for duty in connection with influenza
Returned to 7th AGH & Demobilized 01 July 1919 due to reduction of staff
Did not marry
Died 07 July 2000
Aged 111 years 259 days
Buried Enfield Cemetery
AANS
Born 23 December 1888 at Port Vincent, SA
Daughter of Robert CORRELL and Margaret Smith nee COWLEY
Aged 29 years
Trained at Adelaide Hospital
Enlisted 03 February 1919 and reported for duty at No 7 AGH
Aged 29 years
Did not proceed overseas
Sent to Metropolitan G Rd. 28 February 1919 for duty in connection with influenza
Returned to 7th AGH & Demobilized 01 July 1919 due to reduction of staff
Did not marry
Died 07 July 2000
Aged 111 years 259 days
Buried Enfield Cemetery
COTTON, Kathleen Mary
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 01 June 1889 at Swansea, Tas.
Daughter of Joseph COTTON and Isabella Thomson nee JACKSON
Age 28 years
Training Hobart General Hospital
Enlisted 09 November 1917 at Launceston, Tas.
Embarked 26 November 1917 in Melbourne per “Indarra”
Service India
Promoted to Sister 13 November 1919
Returned to Australia 17 November 1919 per “Charon”
Appointment Terminated 01 March 1920
Married James Tudhope BORTHWICK 23 March 1921 at Thornton, Sorell, Tas.
Died 12 December 1962
Aged 73 years
Cremated Carr Villa Cemetery, Launceston Tas.
Ashes Collected
Tasmania Weekly Courier 29 April 1915 Insert 1
BORTHWICK-COTTON.-On March 23, at Thornton, Sorell, by the Rev. D. Milne, James Tudhope, third son of James Borthwick, Midlothian, Scotland, to Kathleen Mary, youngest daughter of Joseph Cotton, The Bend, Riversdale.
The Mercury Thursday 12 May 1921 page 1
AANS
Born 01 June 1889 at Swansea, Tas.
Daughter of Joseph COTTON and Isabella Thomson nee JACKSON
Age 28 years
Training Hobart General Hospital
Enlisted 09 November 1917 at Launceston, Tas.
Embarked 26 November 1917 in Melbourne per “Indarra”
Service India
Promoted to Sister 13 November 1919
Returned to Australia 17 November 1919 per “Charon”
Appointment Terminated 01 March 1920
Married James Tudhope BORTHWICK 23 March 1921 at Thornton, Sorell, Tas.
Died 12 December 1962
Aged 73 years
Cremated Carr Villa Cemetery, Launceston Tas.
Ashes Collected
Tasmania Weekly Courier 29 April 1915 Insert 1
BORTHWICK-COTTON.-On March 23, at Thornton, Sorell, by the Rev. D. Milne, James Tudhope, third son of James Borthwick, Midlothian, Scotland, to Kathleen Mary, youngest daughter of Joseph Cotton, The Bend, Riversdale.
The Mercury Thursday 12 May 1921 page 1
COTTRELL, Isabella Roberta
Staff Nurse
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born 07 January 1870 at Adelaide, SA
Daughter of Robert COTTRELL and Jane nee LOWE
Married George Lionel THROSSELL 01 October 1896 at St. Bede Church, Semaphore, SA
His occupation listed on her records as 'Squatter'
Educated at Ladies Collegiate School and Adelaide University
Trained at Adelaide Children's Hospital 1896 - 1896
Private Nursing and Ward Sister in Northam & York Hospital, West Australia
Acting Matron Northam Public Hospital
Arrived in London at own expense
Appointed to QAIMNSR 24 September 1917
Served Military Hospital Grantham
'I have the honour to forward a report on the above names lady who has worked in this hospital for one year. During that time she has worked in a highly satisfactory manner. She is kind to her patients, conscientious, tactful and reliable and excellent in every way as a staff nurse.'
Service terminated 23 September 1918 on completion of contract
Returned to Australia 23 September 1918 per 'Runic'
Died 25 December 1921 in WA
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Born 07 January 1870 at Adelaide, SA
Daughter of Robert COTTRELL and Jane nee LOWE
Married George Lionel THROSSELL 01 October 1896 at St. Bede Church, Semaphore, SA
His occupation listed on her records as 'Squatter'
Educated at Ladies Collegiate School and Adelaide University
Trained at Adelaide Children's Hospital 1896 - 1896
Private Nursing and Ward Sister in Northam & York Hospital, West Australia
Acting Matron Northam Public Hospital
Arrived in London at own expense
Appointed to QAIMNSR 24 September 1917
Served Military Hospital Grantham
'I have the honour to forward a report on the above names lady who has worked in this hospital for one year. During that time she has worked in a highly satisfactory manner. She is kind to her patients, conscientious, tactful and reliable and excellent in every way as a staff nurse.'
Service terminated 23 September 1918 on completion of contract
Returned to Australia 23 September 1918 per 'Runic'
Died 25 December 1921 in WA
COUNDON, Daisy Pratt
Staff Nurse/Sister
AANS
Born 1869 in Clunes, Vic
Daughter of Ralph COUNDON and Elizabeth nee GRAY
Sister to Emily Jane COUNDON
Age 45 years
Training Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Enlisted 20 July 1915
Embarked 04 August 1915 per “Orontes”
Service in England
Returned to Australia 01 January 1918 per “Anchises” On Duty
Re-embarked 16 October 1918 per “Malta” as Sister
Service India
Returned to Australia 08 December 1919 per “Janus”
Appointment terminated 18 April 1920
Did not marry
Died 17 September 1926 at St. Kilda, Vic.
Buried Clunes Public Cemetery
AANS
Born 1869 in Clunes, Vic
Daughter of Ralph COUNDON and Elizabeth nee GRAY
Sister to Emily Jane COUNDON
Age 45 years
Training Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Enlisted 20 July 1915
Embarked 04 August 1915 per “Orontes”
Service in England
Returned to Australia 01 January 1918 per “Anchises” On Duty
Re-embarked 16 October 1918 per “Malta” as Sister
Service India
Returned to Australia 08 December 1919 per “Janus”
Appointment terminated 18 April 1920
Did not marry
Died 17 September 1926 at St. Kilda, Vic.
Buried Clunes Public Cemetery
COUSTON, Jessie Helena
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1891 at Northcote, Vic.
Daughter of James COUSTON and Mary Ellen nee WANNON
Training at Adelaide General Hospital
Aged 25 years
Reported for duty at 7thAGH 25 December 1918
Volunteered to nurse influenza
Left by Rail to Melbourne 18 February 1919
Returned by Rail 26 February 1919
Demobilized 16 June 1919
Married John Webster WISHART 20 June 1919 at Chalmers Church, Adelaide
Died 11 February 1963 in Vic.
Late of Croydon, Vic.
AANS
Born 1891 at Northcote, Vic.
Daughter of James COUSTON and Mary Ellen nee WANNON
Training at Adelaide General Hospital
Aged 25 years
Reported for duty at 7thAGH 25 December 1918
Volunteered to nurse influenza
Left by Rail to Melbourne 18 February 1919
Returned by Rail 26 February 1919
Demobilized 16 June 1919
Married John Webster WISHART 20 June 1919 at Chalmers Church, Adelaide
Died 11 February 1963 in Vic.
Late of Croydon, Vic.
COVES, Beatrice Annie
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Sister
AANS Born 23 February 1879 in England Daughter of John Elliot COVES and Sarah nee CHURCHFIELD Age 38 years Enlisted 29 May 1917 Embarked 09 June 1917 in Sydney per “Mooltan” Service Salonika Promoted to Sister 12 July 1919 Contracted Influenza 1918 Returned to Australia 19 December 1919 per “Matatua” On Duty Appointment terminated 18 March 1920 Died February 1949 in Qld. Resided Ninth Ave., Sandgate, Qld. Buried Mt. Thompson Crematorium |
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COWAN, Minnie Agnes
Sister
AANS
Born 1888 at Muswellbrook, NSW
Daughter of Benjamin COWAN and Janet nee SHEARER
Enlisted 26 March 1917
Embarked 09 June 1917
Appointment terminated 11 March 1920
Married Daniel NEWTON 1921 in West Maitland, NSW
Died 10 December 1982 in NSW
Buried Gloucester General Cemetery
Sister Cowan, 13th A.G.H, ca. 1914-1918
Unidentified John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland :ca. 1914-1918
Nurse Cowan, daughter of the late Mr Ben Cowan, of Muswellbrook, has been accepted for service in connection with the war abroad. Nurse Cowan received her training in the Maitland Hospital and is most capable and efficient in her profession. Recently, dining the absence of the matron, she was in charge of the nursing staff at the institution, and performed her duties with the utmost skill and satisfaction. She has gone to Sydney to report
The Maitland Weekly Mercury Saturday 31 March 1917 page 4
AANS
Born 1888 at Muswellbrook, NSW
Daughter of Benjamin COWAN and Janet nee SHEARER
Enlisted 26 March 1917
Embarked 09 June 1917
Appointment terminated 11 March 1920
Married Daniel NEWTON 1921 in West Maitland, NSW
Died 10 December 1982 in NSW
Buried Gloucester General Cemetery
Sister Cowan, 13th A.G.H, ca. 1914-1918
Unidentified John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland :ca. 1914-1918
Nurse Cowan, daughter of the late Mr Ben Cowan, of Muswellbrook, has been accepted for service in connection with the war abroad. Nurse Cowan received her training in the Maitland Hospital and is most capable and efficient in her profession. Recently, dining the absence of the matron, she was in charge of the nursing staff at the institution, and performed her duties with the utmost skill and satisfaction. She has gone to Sydney to report
The Maitland Weekly Mercury Saturday 31 March 1917 page 4
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NURSE RETURNED.
Sister Minnie Cowan recently returned to Australia on the Transport "Borda" This nurse sailed for service abroad on the ill-fated "Mooltan" in June 1917. Going to Salonica where she remained till the Australian nurses were taken from there to England. Then she was attached to the 3rd Aust. Aux. Hospital at Dartford and was there promoted to the rank of Sister. From this hospital Sister Cowan went to the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin on non-military work, going through the course in obstetric nursing and with another Australian, an ex-Sydney Hospital nurse, topped the pass list in the final examination. At the time of her enlisting Sister Cowan, who it might be mentioned, is the youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cowan of "Minnie Vale," Wybong, was relieving matron in Maitland Hospital, having been trained and also carried out the duties of sister there. Muswellbrook Chronicle Wednesday 11 February 1920 page 2 Read more here |
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COWCHER, Alma (Almai) Eliza Anne
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1891 at Wagin, WA
Daughter of John Edward COWCHER and Loisa nee POLLARD
Age 24
Enlisted 11 November 1915
Embarked 18 November 1915 per “Orsova”
Service Egypt
Contracted Influenza July 1916
Returned to Australia 29 December 1916 per “Ascaneus” On Duty
Appointment terminated 26 October 1916
Did not marry
Died 12 February 1967 in Perth, WA
Aged 76 years
Resided Perth, WA
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Crematorium Rose Gardens P 0191
Miss Cowcher, who served as an army sister in the Great War and who has since been attached to military hospitals in the Eastern States and in Perth, has a heavy task ahead of her, particularly in the initial stages of the home when, in addition to getting the organisation into smooth-running order, she will have to train a staff whose personnel is constantly changing. With the exception of the quartermaster, two cooks and a yardman, her staff is comprised entirely of voluntary workers who work on a roster system, 21 being detailed for duty each day. Of these, 12 work from 7.0 am.until 2 p.m. and nine from 2 p.m. until 7.30 or later at night. At present Mrs.M. A. Denson, who is a trained nurse,is lending valuable assistance by givingfull-time honorary service for two weeks.
West Australian Friday 07 March 1941 page 4
AANS
Born 1891 at Wagin, WA
Daughter of John Edward COWCHER and Loisa nee POLLARD
Age 24
Enlisted 11 November 1915
Embarked 18 November 1915 per “Orsova”
Service Egypt
Contracted Influenza July 1916
Returned to Australia 29 December 1916 per “Ascaneus” On Duty
Appointment terminated 26 October 1916
Did not marry
Died 12 February 1967 in Perth, WA
Aged 76 years
Resided Perth, WA
Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Crematorium Rose Gardens P 0191
Miss Cowcher, who served as an army sister in the Great War and who has since been attached to military hospitals in the Eastern States and in Perth, has a heavy task ahead of her, particularly in the initial stages of the home when, in addition to getting the organisation into smooth-running order, she will have to train a staff whose personnel is constantly changing. With the exception of the quartermaster, two cooks and a yardman, her staff is comprised entirely of voluntary workers who work on a roster system, 21 being detailed for duty each day. Of these, 12 work from 7.0 am.until 2 p.m. and nine from 2 p.m. until 7.30 or later at night. At present Mrs.M. A. Denson, who is a trained nurse,is lending valuable assistance by givingfull-time honorary service for two weeks.
West Australian Friday 07 March 1941 page 4
COWEN, Kathleen Amy
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Staff Nurse/Sister
AANS Born 18 September 1884 at Glenelg Station via Warwick, Qld. Daughter of Alexander COWEN and Maria Teresa nee KINEALY Age 32 years Enlisted 06 May 1917 Embarked 12 June 1917 in Melbourne per “Mooltan” Service in Salonika Promoted to Sister 12 July 1919 Returned to Australia 22 August 1919 per “Anchises” Appointment terminated 21 November 1919 Did not marry Died 1976 |
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COWLEY, Isoline Jeanette
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 06 July 1875 at Wagga Wagga, NSW
Daughter of Frank COWLEY and Catherine (Kate) Isobel nee PHILLIPS
Sister of W S McCOMBE
Age 42 years
Training Coast Hospital
Enlisted 19 October 1917 at Melbourne, Vic.
Embarked 22 December 1917 per “Ulysses”
Service in England
Returned to Australia 08 August 1919 per “Katoomba” On Duty
Appointment Terminated 04 April 1920
Did not marry
Died 25 October 1953 at Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW
Late of Bellevue Hill, NSW
AANS
Born 06 July 1875 at Wagga Wagga, NSW
Daughter of Frank COWLEY and Catherine (Kate) Isobel nee PHILLIPS
Sister of W S McCOMBE
Age 42 years
Training Coast Hospital
Enlisted 19 October 1917 at Melbourne, Vic.
Embarked 22 December 1917 per “Ulysses”
Service in England
Returned to Australia 08 August 1919 per “Katoomba” On Duty
Appointment Terminated 04 April 1920
Did not marry
Died 25 October 1953 at Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW
Late of Bellevue Hill, NSW
COX, Lurline Ida
Staff Nurse
2nd Australian General Hospital
Born 1884 at Mudgee, NSW
Daughter of Joseph Milton and Margaret S COX
Of Hellispont, Lavender Bay, NSW
Enlisted 12 August 1915 at Sydney, NSW aged 31 years 5 months
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Embarked 21 August 1915
Served in Egypt
Returned to Australia 02 December 1916 per 'Karoola'
Appointment terminated 17 December 1916 on account of marriage
Married Patrick JOseph STACKPOOL
Died 13 October 1970 in NSW
Late of Rose Bay, NSW
2nd Australian General Hospital
Born 1884 at Mudgee, NSW
Daughter of Joseph Milton and Margaret S COX
Of Hellispont, Lavender Bay, NSW
Enlisted 12 August 1915 at Sydney, NSW aged 31 years 5 months
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse
Embarked 21 August 1915
Served in Egypt
Returned to Australia 02 December 1916 per 'Karoola'
Appointment terminated 17 December 1916 on account of marriage
Married Patrick JOseph STACKPOOL
Died 13 October 1970 in NSW
Late of Rose Bay, NSW
COX, Mary Standish
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1887 at Rylestone, NSW
Daughter of Edward Standish COX and Alice Victoria nee COX
Age 29 years
Enlisted 31 August 1916 in Sydney, NSW
Embarked 09 May 1917 in Sydney per “Ulysses”
Service Egypt, England and France
Contracted Influenza March 1919
Returned to Australia 20 March 1919 per “Warwickshire”
Appointment terminated 19 July 1919
Did not marry
Died 25 July 1961 at Hospital, Katoomba, NSW
Late of Katoomba, NSW
AANS
Born 1887 at Rylestone, NSW
Daughter of Edward Standish COX and Alice Victoria nee COX
Age 29 years
Enlisted 31 August 1916 in Sydney, NSW
Embarked 09 May 1917 in Sydney per “Ulysses”
Service Egypt, England and France
Contracted Influenza March 1919
Returned to Australia 20 March 1919 per “Warwickshire”
Appointment terminated 19 July 1919
Did not marry
Died 25 July 1961 at Hospital, Katoomba, NSW
Late of Katoomba, NSW
COXON, Jean Nessie
Sister
ANNS
Born Janet COXON 1887 at Bodalla, NSW
Daughter of Edward John and Elizabeth COXON
Of Lismore, NSW
Enlisted 05 June 1917 aged 29 years 11 months
Occupation prior to enlistment Trained Nurse
Embarked 09 November 1917
Served United Kingdom 09 November 1917 - 20 March 1919
Served in Australia 175 days No 4 AGH Randwick & Garrison Hospital Victoria Barracks
Returned to Australia per 'Demosthemes' 02 March 1919
Appointment terminated 21 March 1919
Married John Lewis CHESTER
Resided 25 Marshall St., Manly, NSW
Died 04 October 1984 in Manly, NSW
Aged 97 years
ANNS
Born Janet COXON 1887 at Bodalla, NSW
Daughter of Edward John and Elizabeth COXON
Of Lismore, NSW
Enlisted 05 June 1917 aged 29 years 11 months
Occupation prior to enlistment Trained Nurse
Embarked 09 November 1917
Served United Kingdom 09 November 1917 - 20 March 1919
Served in Australia 175 days No 4 AGH Randwick & Garrison Hospital Victoria Barracks
Returned to Australia per 'Demosthemes' 02 March 1919
Appointment terminated 21 March 1919
Married John Lewis CHESTER
Resided 25 Marshall St., Manly, NSW
Died 04 October 1984 in Manly, NSW
Aged 97 years
COZENS, E M
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Nurse
Leaving for the front Photograph Table Talk Thursday 10 December 1914 page 22 |
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