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CRAGO, Bessie Grace
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1889 at Yass, NSW
Daughter of William Henry CRAGO and Jane nee COLVIN
Enlisted Cairo, Egypt November
Embarked 28 November 1914
Appointment terminated 04 April 1919
Married 08 January 1920 Dr. Charles Goldsborough ADAMS
Died 30 April 1979 in Lindfield, NSW
Aged 89 years
Late of LIndfield, NSW
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AANS
Born 1889 at Yass, NSW
Daughter of William Henry CRAGO and Jane nee COLVIN
Enlisted Cairo, Egypt November
Embarked 28 November 1914
Appointment terminated 04 April 1919
Married 08 January 1920 Dr. Charles Goldsborough ADAMS
Died 30 April 1979 in Lindfield, NSW
Aged 89 years
Late of LIndfield, NSW
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H16405
ADAMS — CRAGO. — An interesting wedding was celebrated on January 8 at the home of Mr. and Mrs.W. H. Crago, when their eldest daughter, Sister Bessie Crago, was married to Dr. Charles Goldsbrough Adams, of Inverell. Both the bride and bridegroom have seen active service, and both were decorated for meritorious services during the war. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. A. S. Woodhouse (Methodist). Miss Kathleen Crago (sister of the bride) was bridesmaid, and Mr. J. Alford, of Cowra, was best man. The bride was attired in a coat and skirt of Saxe blue crepe-de-chine and wore a soft grey hat, lined with blue and trimmed with a French posy. The bridesmaid's frock was of maize crepe de-chine, and was worn with a burnt straw hat trimmed with shaded roses veiled in brown tulle. Dr and Mrs. Adams will leave for Scotland at the end of the month.
Sunday Times (Sydney) Sunday 25 January 1920 page 14
Sunday Times (Sydney) Sunday 25 January 1920 page 14
CRAIB, Lillian Isabel
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Staff Nurse
AANS ANS India Born 31 August 1889 at Charters Towers, QLD Daughter of John CRAIB and Annie Maria nee BRAITHWAITE Of Racecourse Road, Charters Towers, North Qld. Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse Enlisted 08 November 1917 at Brisbane, Qld Aged 28 years Embarked 16 November 1917 from Sydney per 'Canberra' Served in Bombay, India Returned to Australia 20 May 1919 per 'Eastern' Matron at Babinda District Hostpial Married 07 July 1924 to John Thomas Patrick McAULIFFE at Newport, Vic.Mother of Kieran and Robert Died 14 September 1928 at Swan Hill, Vic. |
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Taken when on overseas service during World War I.
Photograph was sourced through the Cloncurry Hospital where Lillian served as Matron in 1921-1922
Nurse Lillian Craib, who was consequently appointed matron, and who is expected to take up her duties in a fortnight from date. The hospital is to be congratulated on securing the services of such a qualified nurse as matron. She comes highly recommended by both Drs Fearnley and Edmeades, of Charters Towers where she has her home. Nurse Craib, who has been on active service in India and elsewhere, comes to us with unimpeachable testimonials.
Townsville Daily Bulletin Saturday 07 August 1920 page 7
McAULIFFE-CRAIB.-On July 7, at Newport, Melbourne, John T. P. McAuliffe (Beverford) to Lillian I. Craib (late Matron, Babinda District Hospital).
Cairns Post Saturday 19 July 1924
Photograph was sourced through the Cloncurry Hospital where Lillian served as Matron in 1921-1922
Nurse Lillian Craib, who was consequently appointed matron, and who is expected to take up her duties in a fortnight from date. The hospital is to be congratulated on securing the services of such a qualified nurse as matron. She comes highly recommended by both Drs Fearnley and Edmeades, of Charters Towers where she has her home. Nurse Craib, who has been on active service in India and elsewhere, comes to us with unimpeachable testimonials.
Townsville Daily Bulletin Saturday 07 August 1920 page 7
McAULIFFE-CRAIB.-On July 7, at Newport, Melbourne, John T. P. McAuliffe (Beverford) to Lillian I. Craib (late Matron, Babinda District Hospital).
Cairns Post Saturday 19 July 1924
CRAIG, Constance Jean Gonville (Nancy)
aka BIRDWOOD, Constance Jean Gonville
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Staff Nurse
AANS Is the eldest daughter of “The Soul of Anzac” Lieutenant-General Sir William Birdwood Constance Jean Gonville Birdwood was born in Lahore, India 1895. She was the daughter of Sir William Riddell Birdwood and Jeanetta Hope Gonville nee Bromhed. Married Frank Colin Craig in England 1919. She died 19 October 1975 in Perth, WA. Buried Karrakatta Cemetery. http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/1landing/s_birdwood.html |
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She wrote a book
Autobiography of the Honourable Constance ("Nancy") Jean Gonville Craig (1895-1975) Nee Birdwood
THE CRAIG-BIRDWOOD WEDDING
The marriage of Sir William Birdwood's eldest daughter Nancy, to Mr. Colin Craig the son of Mr. Frank Craig, a well known Western Australian pastoralist, is to take place on March 3. Mr. Colin Craig is about 30 years of age, and is a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
The Sydney Stock & Station Journal - Feb 21 1919
Autobiography of the Honourable Constance ("Nancy") Jean Gonville Craig (1895-1975) Nee Birdwood
THE CRAIG-BIRDWOOD WEDDING
The marriage of Sir William Birdwood's eldest daughter Nancy, to Mr. Colin Craig the son of Mr. Frank Craig, a well known Western Australian pastoralist, is to take place on March 3. Mr. Colin Craig is about 30 years of age, and is a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
The Sydney Stock & Station Journal - Feb 21 1919
CRAIG, Essie
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1878 in Vic.
Daughter of James CRAIG and Mary Elizabeth nee WOODROFFE
Of 'Benvarden', Weinberg Road, Hawthorn, Vic.
Age 36 years
Enlisted 28 November 1914
Embarked 05 December 1914 per “Kyarra”
Promoted to Sister 01 December 1915
Returned to Australia 19 October 1915 per “Karoola”
She made no application for discharge re marriage
Memo from Major 3rd MD Appointment Terminated as of 15 April 1916
Married Bernhard Traugott ZWAR (Surgeon) 07 July 1915
Died 1962 in Vic.
Table Talk Thursday 26 November 1914 page 3
Punch Thursday 03 December 1914 page 26
AANS
Born 1878 in Vic.
Daughter of James CRAIG and Mary Elizabeth nee WOODROFFE
Of 'Benvarden', Weinberg Road, Hawthorn, Vic.
Age 36 years
Enlisted 28 November 1914
Embarked 05 December 1914 per “Kyarra”
Promoted to Sister 01 December 1915
Returned to Australia 19 October 1915 per “Karoola”
She made no application for discharge re marriage
Memo from Major 3rd MD Appointment Terminated as of 15 April 1916
Married Bernhard Traugott ZWAR (Surgeon) 07 July 1915
Died 1962 in Vic.
Table Talk Thursday 26 November 1914 page 3
Punch Thursday 03 December 1914 page 26
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CRAIG, Nancy Isobel
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Staff Nurse/Sister
AANS Born Nancie I C CRAIG 12 January 1884 in Redfern, Sydney, NSW Daughter of Robert and Alice Matilda CRAIG Next of kin Alfred Charles CROFT Age 30 years Enlisted 20 April 1917 Embarked 12 June 1917 in Melbourne per “Mooltan” Service Egypt and England Promoted to Sister 12 July 1919 Returned to Australia 28 October 1919 per “Orontes” On Duty Appointment terminated 16 January 1920 Married Edwin Stewart ASHTON in Sydney, NSW in 1949 Resided 703 Barrenjoey Road, Avalon Beach, NSW Died 23 October 1970 in at RGH, Concord, NSW Late of Avalon Beach, formerly of Petersham and Eastwood Aged 83 years Courtesy of Meredith McGregor |
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Her application for increased rate or payment of war pension in 1968 details her career as follows -
I am a First World War Army Nursing Sister who completed my General Training from January 1910 to December 1914 at Sydney Hospital. Received Gold Medal for top marks in Medical (99%) and Surgery (100% full marks) Examinations. This Gold Medal is given only once a year to the most outstanding trainee. Appointed Sister-in-Charge at Sydney Hospital from December 1914 to December 1916. During this time was appointed Night Superintendent for five (5) months of the entire hospital and directed the handling of all Casualty cases. Attached to the Army in December 1916. Appointed Sister at Randwick Military Hospital from December 1916 to June, 1917 ((6) months. Departed for Overseas War Service in June 1917 and was Sister designated as Staff Nurse for a destination "unknown" in which the Government called for volunteers. Embarked on "Mooltan" and was violently seasick for six (6) weeks. Landed in Egypt end of July 1917. Attached as Sister to 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia - 14th A.G.H. Also served with this same Unit at Port Said in 1918 until June 1919.
Whilst at Port Said suffered Nervous Exhaustion, Dizzy Spells and Head Pains and was treated by Dr. (now Sir) Charles Bickerton-Blackburn. Admitted to Red Cross Home in Alexandria. There for two (2) weeks then returned to duty. Collapsed again, then sent back to Red Cross Home at Alexandria for a further (1) week. Returned to duty at Port Said then contracted an eye infection of foreign origin which inflicted dreadful pain in my right eye. Treated by Dr. Bickerton Blackburn. Due to increased pressure of work I was not relieved of duty but transferred to night duty. Right eye was bandaged and covered with patch. My eyesight, particularly in my right eye, continued to deteriorate from then on. Later, at Abbassia, contracted a mouth infection (gindervitas) creating puss in gums. Treated by Army Dentist. Unable to be relieved of duty due to increasing number of casualties from battle areas. Less than one hundred (100) Nursing Sisters to over one thousand (1000) patients. Duty shifts were never less than twelve (12) hours and often worked continuously forty eight (48) hours straight without relief. Overwork and nervous exhaustion no doubt created a low resistance to infection. Handled hundreds of 'front line' cases and saw hundreds die. Was caught up in major riot in Cairo where many were killed. Again many repeated collapses due to strain and overwork. In June 1919 departed for Great Britain. Upon arrival in England was given a medical examination and was relieved of duty for six (six) weeks. After this recuperative period I was attached to No. 3 Australian General Hospital, as Sister, in Kent, Sussex - 3rd A.G.H. Also attached as Sister to Australian General Hospital No 3 Auxillary at Salisbury Plains until November 1919. Departed for Australia in November 1919, and arrived December 1919 but did not work from this date until December 1921 owing to ill health due to War Service. Collapsed again upon return home and did not work for two (2) years. Too ill. Bad food in Egypt over two (2) years caused malnutrition and made me severely anemic. In December 1919 I consulted a Macquarie Street Eye Specialist, Dr. Pittar, and was prescribed glasses due to the deterioration of my eyesight caused by the eye infections incurred in Egypt in 1917-1919. Dr. Pittar did not charge me for his services because I was a Returned Nursing Sister and, at the time, no Repatriation Benefits were available for First World War Nursing Sisters. In any event, I was brought up to received as little assistance as possible from the Government as can be seen from my records with the Social Services Department and Repatriation Department.
I am a First World War Army Nursing Sister who completed my General Training from January 1910 to December 1914 at Sydney Hospital. Received Gold Medal for top marks in Medical (99%) and Surgery (100% full marks) Examinations. This Gold Medal is given only once a year to the most outstanding trainee. Appointed Sister-in-Charge at Sydney Hospital from December 1914 to December 1916. During this time was appointed Night Superintendent for five (5) months of the entire hospital and directed the handling of all Casualty cases. Attached to the Army in December 1916. Appointed Sister at Randwick Military Hospital from December 1916 to June, 1917 ((6) months. Departed for Overseas War Service in June 1917 and was Sister designated as Staff Nurse for a destination "unknown" in which the Government called for volunteers. Embarked on "Mooltan" and was violently seasick for six (6) weeks. Landed in Egypt end of July 1917. Attached as Sister to 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia - 14th A.G.H. Also served with this same Unit at Port Said in 1918 until June 1919.
Whilst at Port Said suffered Nervous Exhaustion, Dizzy Spells and Head Pains and was treated by Dr. (now Sir) Charles Bickerton-Blackburn. Admitted to Red Cross Home in Alexandria. There for two (2) weeks then returned to duty. Collapsed again, then sent back to Red Cross Home at Alexandria for a further (1) week. Returned to duty at Port Said then contracted an eye infection of foreign origin which inflicted dreadful pain in my right eye. Treated by Dr. Bickerton Blackburn. Due to increased pressure of work I was not relieved of duty but transferred to night duty. Right eye was bandaged and covered with patch. My eyesight, particularly in my right eye, continued to deteriorate from then on. Later, at Abbassia, contracted a mouth infection (gindervitas) creating puss in gums. Treated by Army Dentist. Unable to be relieved of duty due to increasing number of casualties from battle areas. Less than one hundred (100) Nursing Sisters to over one thousand (1000) patients. Duty shifts were never less than twelve (12) hours and often worked continuously forty eight (48) hours straight without relief. Overwork and nervous exhaustion no doubt created a low resistance to infection. Handled hundreds of 'front line' cases and saw hundreds die. Was caught up in major riot in Cairo where many were killed. Again many repeated collapses due to strain and overwork. In June 1919 departed for Great Britain. Upon arrival in England was given a medical examination and was relieved of duty for six (six) weeks. After this recuperative period I was attached to No. 3 Australian General Hospital, as Sister, in Kent, Sussex - 3rd A.G.H. Also attached as Sister to Australian General Hospital No 3 Auxillary at Salisbury Plains until November 1919. Departed for Australia in November 1919, and arrived December 1919 but did not work from this date until December 1921 owing to ill health due to War Service. Collapsed again upon return home and did not work for two (2) years. Too ill. Bad food in Egypt over two (2) years caused malnutrition and made me severely anemic. In December 1919 I consulted a Macquarie Street Eye Specialist, Dr. Pittar, and was prescribed glasses due to the deterioration of my eyesight caused by the eye infections incurred in Egypt in 1917-1919. Dr. Pittar did not charge me for his services because I was a Returned Nursing Sister and, at the time, no Repatriation Benefits were available for First World War Nursing Sisters. In any event, I was brought up to received as little assistance as possible from the Government as can be seen from my records with the Social Services Department and Repatriation Department.
Decorations received for serving Overseas, 1914-1918 War, were Victory Medal and War Service Medal. Held Officer's Rank at all times equivalent to First Lieutenant, with appropriate Ribbons. Completed Obstetric Training from January 1922 until June 1922 - six (6) months. Completed Tressillian Training at Petersham Centre from June 1922 to December 1922 - six (6) months. During this time completed Post Graduate Course for Mothers and Babies from June 1922 to October 1922 - three (3) months - at Petersham Centre, and was then appointed Sister of Tressillian at Petersham Centre in Broken Hill Baby Health Centre by N.S.W. Departmental Board of Health as one of their original appointees. Served at Broken Hill from January 1923 until April 1924 - fourteen (14) months. In May 1924 was appointed Deputy Sister-In-Charge of Burwood Baby Health Centre which was the largest in the Commonwealth of Australia (1600 visits per month). Appointed Sister-In-Charge of Burwood Baby Health Centre in April 1925 and held this position for eleven (11) years until January 1936.
In January 1936 appointed to Head Office of Board of Health as relieving Supervisory Nursing Sister of all Hospitals in New South Wales (a position held by only six (6) others). Appointment confirmed on a permanent basis for three (3) years held this position which necessitated the inspection of all Hospital Records, the compilation of vast Reports personally given to the Director-General of Public Health and also to the Hospital's Commission of N.S.W. The attendance in Court all over the State was also necessary where and when required. Besides Inspectorship of all State Hospitals, I was also authorised to inspect all Private Hospitals and Practising Obstetric Nurses (Midwifes). These positions were held until January 1939. In February 1939 appointed to Pre-Natal Section of Board of Health. Carried out Inspections, in company with a qualified Medical Practitioner, of all Pre-Natal Clinics in N.S.W. (except Newcastle). At beginning of 1940 was retired by the N.S.W. Board of Health on 'Breakdown Pension' after almost thirty (30) years of Nursing Service. Obtained the highest positions possible and tributes received accorded to this fact, however failing eyesight and my general bad state of health occassioned my premature retirement from the N.S.W. Department of Health. This was originally due to my War Services rendered as above stated.
In 1940 worked for Red Cross with four other Returned Sisters engaged in making Medical Supplies for our Army Hospitals overseas, Surgical Gowns, Eye Bandages, etcetera. This work continued for two (2) years until 1942. For three (3) years from 1942 until the end of 1945 - Second World War - was appointed Sister-In-Charge of all First Aid Posts from Balmain East to Rozelle where it was expected that heavy bombing may occur should Sydney be attacked. Also engaged during this time in giving Official Lectures and Training to over thirty (30) civilians who volunteered for service in these First Aid Posts. During this same time for four (4) years form 1942 to 1946 also worked at Church of England Hostel at St. Andrews Cathedral which cared for Servicemen on leave. Duties consisted of making their beds, cleaning up, and providing general amenities. Also during this time worked for the Australian Comforts Fund, Legacy, and other charitable organisations associated with War Service personnel. Was also Secretary and Treasurer of St. Mary's Church of England Guild, Balmain East for five (5) years from 1944 until 1949. Maintained all Treasurer's records and other records required, e.g. Minute Book, etcetera. Member of St. Edmunds's Church of England for five (5) years from 1950 to 1955. Member Church of England, Newport Beach, from 1956 to 1958. Member of St. Mark's Church of England Ladies Auxillary for four (4) years from 1958 to 1962. Member of Dee Why R.S.L. Woman's Auxillary from 1960 to 1964. Member of Dee Why R.S.L. Club from 1960 to date - past eight (8) years. Admitted three times to Yaralla, Repatriation Hospital at Concord in recent years. Formerly treated by Dr. C.E. Southee of Newport prior to change to Dr. G. Weyland of Avalon due to inability to travel. A record would exist of all Medical attendances upon Dr. Saad of the Repatriation Department, and also for Dental Work, Hearing Tests and the supply of a Hearing Aid and batteries, and other medical services rendered. Repatriation Transport is provided on each occasion of my visit. On Thursday 09 September 1965, Dr Saad advised me that the cataracts on my eyes would be removed. This had been promised to me for the past three years and more. About three weeks ago Dr. Saad informed me that it was now 'too late' to restore the sight in my right eye, however he said that my left eye would be operated on 'when ready'. I am already almost completely blind and my sight is deteriorating daily. I do not wish to be totally blind, however my many consultations over a great many years with Dr. Saad have been of no avail. When I was advised that the sight in my right eye was not to be restored to me, and as it now appears that the present procrastination concerning my left eye may also render it 'too late' to save what little sight I have left, it is therefore in these circumstances of my increasing blindness and general state of health, that I make this application for T.P.I. Pension accordingly.
In January 1936 appointed to Head Office of Board of Health as relieving Supervisory Nursing Sister of all Hospitals in New South Wales (a position held by only six (6) others). Appointment confirmed on a permanent basis for three (3) years held this position which necessitated the inspection of all Hospital Records, the compilation of vast Reports personally given to the Director-General of Public Health and also to the Hospital's Commission of N.S.W. The attendance in Court all over the State was also necessary where and when required. Besides Inspectorship of all State Hospitals, I was also authorised to inspect all Private Hospitals and Practising Obstetric Nurses (Midwifes). These positions were held until January 1939. In February 1939 appointed to Pre-Natal Section of Board of Health. Carried out Inspections, in company with a qualified Medical Practitioner, of all Pre-Natal Clinics in N.S.W. (except Newcastle). At beginning of 1940 was retired by the N.S.W. Board of Health on 'Breakdown Pension' after almost thirty (30) years of Nursing Service. Obtained the highest positions possible and tributes received accorded to this fact, however failing eyesight and my general bad state of health occassioned my premature retirement from the N.S.W. Department of Health. This was originally due to my War Services rendered as above stated.
In 1940 worked for Red Cross with four other Returned Sisters engaged in making Medical Supplies for our Army Hospitals overseas, Surgical Gowns, Eye Bandages, etcetera. This work continued for two (2) years until 1942. For three (3) years from 1942 until the end of 1945 - Second World War - was appointed Sister-In-Charge of all First Aid Posts from Balmain East to Rozelle where it was expected that heavy bombing may occur should Sydney be attacked. Also engaged during this time in giving Official Lectures and Training to over thirty (30) civilians who volunteered for service in these First Aid Posts. During this same time for four (4) years form 1942 to 1946 also worked at Church of England Hostel at St. Andrews Cathedral which cared for Servicemen on leave. Duties consisted of making their beds, cleaning up, and providing general amenities. Also during this time worked for the Australian Comforts Fund, Legacy, and other charitable organisations associated with War Service personnel. Was also Secretary and Treasurer of St. Mary's Church of England Guild, Balmain East for five (5) years from 1944 until 1949. Maintained all Treasurer's records and other records required, e.g. Minute Book, etcetera. Member of St. Edmunds's Church of England for five (5) years from 1950 to 1955. Member Church of England, Newport Beach, from 1956 to 1958. Member of St. Mark's Church of England Ladies Auxillary for four (4) years from 1958 to 1962. Member of Dee Why R.S.L. Woman's Auxillary from 1960 to 1964. Member of Dee Why R.S.L. Club from 1960 to date - past eight (8) years. Admitted three times to Yaralla, Repatriation Hospital at Concord in recent years. Formerly treated by Dr. C.E. Southee of Newport prior to change to Dr. G. Weyland of Avalon due to inability to travel. A record would exist of all Medical attendances upon Dr. Saad of the Repatriation Department, and also for Dental Work, Hearing Tests and the supply of a Hearing Aid and batteries, and other medical services rendered. Repatriation Transport is provided on each occasion of my visit. On Thursday 09 September 1965, Dr Saad advised me that the cataracts on my eyes would be removed. This had been promised to me for the past three years and more. About three weeks ago Dr. Saad informed me that it was now 'too late' to restore the sight in my right eye, however he said that my left eye would be operated on 'when ready'. I am already almost completely blind and my sight is deteriorating daily. I do not wish to be totally blind, however my many consultations over a great many years with Dr. Saad have been of no avail. When I was advised that the sight in my right eye was not to be restored to me, and as it now appears that the present procrastination concerning my left eye may also render it 'too late' to save what little sight I have left, it is therefore in these circumstances of my increasing blindness and general state of health, that I make this application for T.P.I. Pension accordingly.
CRAIG, W
Nurse
AANS
Embarked for Australia 07 August 1919 per 'Katooma' for Sydney
AANS
Embarked for Australia 07 August 1919 per 'Katooma' for Sydney
CRAIKE, Dorothy May
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Nurse
Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Services Born Dorothea May CRAIKE in 1889 at Strathfieldsaye, Vic. Daughter of Thomas CRAIKE and Anne Maria nee PEIPER Embarked for Australia 21 May 1919 per 'Osterley' for Western Australia Married Ernest SEVERIN in 11 July 1923 in WA Died 1972 at Fremantle, WA The engagement is announced of Miss Dorothea Craike, elder daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Craike, of Trayning, and Mrs. P. Sherzinger, of Nedlands, to Ernest F., youngest son of the late Charles and Mrs. Severin, of Katanning. Miss Craike' is a member of the A.T. and A. Nurses' Club, Mount-street, and saw several years active service with the Australian Imperial Forces.
The Daily News (WA) Tuesday 27 February 1923 page 6 |
Courtesy of Rhonda Harris
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SEVERIN—CRAIKE.—On July 11, 1923, at the Methodist Church, Nedlands, by the Rev. C. A. Jenkins, Ernest Frederick Severin, of Katanning, to Dorothea May Craike, of Perth. Present address, Clyde-street, Katanning.
Western Mail Thursday 23 August 1923 page 27
Western Mail Thursday 23 August 1923 page 27
CRAMER, Constance Mabel
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Sister
AANS Born 1876 at Brighton, Vic. Daughter of William George CRAMER and Emily Louisa nee DUNCAN Age 35 years Children’s Hospital Carlton, Vic Enlisted 10 May 1915 Embarked 18 May 1915 for England Transport Duty to Australia per “Star of Victoria” Transport Duty to England per “Orsova” Service England and on the field in France Promoted to Sister 05 May 1917 Returned to Australia 13 April 1919 per “Castalia” Appointment terminated 12 August 1919 Did not marry Died 1963 in Kew, Vic. Photograph Table Talk Thursday 27 May 1915 page 19 |
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CRANSTON, Claudia Maude
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 09 September 1894 in Stepney, SA
Daughter of Matthew CRANSTON and Eliza Mary nee BUNGEY
Address George St. Norwood, SA
Training at Adelaide General Hospital
Aged 25 years
Volunteered 26 August 1918
Reported for duty at 7th AGH 02 January 1919
Duty at Quarantine Station Torrens Island & 15th AGH
Demobilized 01 July 1919
Married Alfred Robert CAMERON 28 September 1921
Died 26 August 1971 in Sydney, NSW
AANS
Born 09 September 1894 in Stepney, SA
Daughter of Matthew CRANSTON and Eliza Mary nee BUNGEY
Address George St. Norwood, SA
Training at Adelaide General Hospital
Aged 25 years
Volunteered 26 August 1918
Reported for duty at 7th AGH 02 January 1919
Duty at Quarantine Station Torrens Island & 15th AGH
Demobilized 01 July 1919
Married Alfred Robert CAMERON 28 September 1921
Died 26 August 1971 in Sydney, NSW
CAMERON-CRANSTON.-On September 28, 1921, at St. John's Cathedral, Kalgoorlie, by Rev. Archdeacon. Collick, Alfred R., son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron, of Subiaco, to Claudia M., fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Cranston. of Norwood, S.A.
The West Australia Saturday 12 November 1921 page 1
The West Australia Saturday 12 November 1921 page 1
CRAVEN, Mary Lee
Sister
AANS
Born 1879 in Brisbane, Qld.
Daughter of William CRAVEN and Rachel nee CARSON
Age 36 years
Enlisted 15 May 1915
Embarked 12 June 1915
Transport Duty to/from Australia./England /Suez
Ships “Themistocles” “Wandilla” “Euripides” “Wiltshire”
Service also Egypt, England and France
Returned to Australia 31 March 1918 per “Euripides”
Awarded the Royal Red Cross 2nd Class, for conspicuous and valuable service
Re-embarked for India 04 July 1919 per “Wiltshire”
Promoted to Sister 25 September 1918
Service in India and Afghanistan Border
Entitled to India General Service Medal with clasp “Afghanistan NWF 1919”
Returned to Australia 28 October 1919 per “Montoro”
Appointment terminated 18 January 1920
Did not marry
Died 1955 in Qld.
AANS
Born 1879 in Brisbane, Qld.
Daughter of William CRAVEN and Rachel nee CARSON
Age 36 years
Enlisted 15 May 1915
Embarked 12 June 1915
Transport Duty to/from Australia./England /Suez
Ships “Themistocles” “Wandilla” “Euripides” “Wiltshire”
Service also Egypt, England and France
Returned to Australia 31 March 1918 per “Euripides”
Awarded the Royal Red Cross 2nd Class, for conspicuous and valuable service
Re-embarked for India 04 July 1919 per “Wiltshire”
Promoted to Sister 25 September 1918
Service in India and Afghanistan Border
Entitled to India General Service Medal with clasp “Afghanistan NWF 1919”
Returned to Australia 28 October 1919 per “Montoro”
Appointment terminated 18 January 1920
Did not marry
Died 1955 in Qld.
Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 23
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1950, position 3
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 23
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1950, position 3
CRAWFORD, Minnie Isobel
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Sister
AANS Born 22 December 1889 in NSW Daughter of David CRAWFORD and Amelia Jane nee WALMSLEY Enlisted 15 August 1916 Embarked 08 December 1916 Appointment terminated 19 July 1919 Married Robert G WOOD in 1921 Read more here Photograph Courtesy of Faye Threlfall WW1 Australian and New Zealand Nurses |
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CRAWLEY, Dorothy Emma
Sister
AANS
Born 24 April 1877 in Warrnambool, Vic.
Daughter of John William CRAWLEY and Sarah Ann nee MAXWELL
Sister of J CRAWLEY
Age 33 years
Enlisted 07 November 1915
Embarked 06 December 1916 in Melbourne per “Orsova”
Service on the field in France
Resigned appointment due to marriage in UK 10 August 1918
Married BOWDEN
Died 29 September 1962 in Heidelberg, Vic.
Buried Springvale Botanical Cemetery Cassia Wall C Niche 58
AANS
Born 24 April 1877 in Warrnambool, Vic.
Daughter of John William CRAWLEY and Sarah Ann nee MAXWELL
Sister of J CRAWLEY
Age 33 years
Enlisted 07 November 1915
Embarked 06 December 1916 in Melbourne per “Orsova”
Service on the field in France
Resigned appointment due to marriage in UK 10 August 1918
Married BOWDEN
Died 29 September 1962 in Heidelberg, Vic.
Buried Springvale Botanical Cemetery Cassia Wall C Niche 58
Miss Dorothy Crawley. second youngest daughter of the last Shire Engineer, and sister of the present one Mr. J. W. Crawley is doing valiant clinical service in hospital in France close up behind the firing line. This brave little girl is reckless of her own safety in her great zeal to help, as was proved in that before leaving Australia she was one of the few nurses who volunteered to attend on the meningitis cases in the Military Hospital. How sincerely we hope that Providence will protect her and that her courage will be rewarded.
Warrnambool Standard Saturday 31 August 1918 page 8
Warrnambool Standard Saturday 31 August 1918 page 8
CREAL, Rose Ann
Matron
AANS 14 Australian General Hospital Born 03 November 1865 at Young, NSW Daughter of John CREAL and Ann nee BRADY Sister of E F CREAL Aged 49 years Enlisted 14 August 1916 in NSW Embarked 19 August 1916 Served in Egypt Returned to Australia 12 January 1920 per 'Aeneas' Discharged as medically unfit 31 May 1920 Died 07 August 1921 following an attack of appendicitis at Sydney Hospital. Late of Sydney Hospital Accorded a full military funeral at St James Anglican Church in Sydney on Wednesday 10 August 1921. It was the largest funerals seen in the city for some time, with hundreds of people lining the streets outside the church. Her coffin was mounted on a gun-carriage, draped with the Union Jack, with her nurse’s cap on top. Buried Waverley Cemetery www.awm.gov.au P00971.001 |
Awarded Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 890, position 42
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 58, position 2
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 890, position 42
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 58, position 2
Matron Creal who has been awarded the Royal Red Cross entered Sydney Hospital as a probationer, and after receiving training there was appointed head nurse, afterwards being promoted to sister. She continued her work at the hospital, and on the resignation of Miss Gould, who was matron, she was appointed to that position - a post which she has occupied for more than 20 years. Prior to the outbreak of war, Matron Creal was connected with the military forces of this State in an honorary capacity as a sister, and when the Principal Matron connected with the military went abroad on active service in October, 1914, Miss Creal accepted the position of Principal Matron in New South Wales. She carried on the dual duties of matron of Sydney Hospital and her military positions until August 1916, when she proceeded on active service. Since leaving Australia she has been in charge of the 14th Australian General Hospital, first at Abbassia in Egypt, and later at Port Said, where she is at present.
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday 15 January 1919 page 12
Rose Ann Creal (1865-1921), nurse, was born on 3 November 1865 at Young, New South Wales, daughter of John Creal, miner, and his wife Ann, née Brady, both of whom were Irish-born. Her childhood was spent in the gold-mining districts of Young and Parkes. She was educated at home by her father and when 16 began work in a small hospital at Parkes. Recognizing the quality of her young assistant, the matron there arranged for her to be taken on as a probationer at Sydney Hospital and by about 1891 Rose Creal was head nurse of a ward.
When the hospital's matron, E. J. Gould, resigned in 1898 Senior Sister Creal was made acting matron. Her appointment was confirmed in February 1899 and later that year she became a founding member and councillor of the Trained Nurses' Association of New South Wales. According to some of her nurses, she was a strict disciplinarian but did her utmost to promote the welfare of those under her care, thereby winning both respect and admiration. She was a large, handsome woman of extraordinary strength and could not understand why some of her staff found their twelve-hour shifts exhausting.
Before World War I Matron Creal was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve, and in October 1914 she was appointed principal matron of the 2nd Military District (New South Wales), while remaining matron of Sydney Hospital. Her main military duty was the selection of nurses for active service, a role she fulfilled until 14 August 1916 when she too enlisted in the A.A.N.S., Australian Imperial Force. Embarking on the hospital ship, Karoola, on 19 August, she assumed duty on 23 September as matron of the 14th Australian General Hospital at Abbassia, Egypt. The casualties of the Australian Light Horse were treated almost exclusively there, and in November 1916 numbered about 570. Following heavy fighting at Magdhaba and Rafa the numbers rose to over 900 and by May 1917, after the battle of Gaza, to 1140. These increases placed great strains on the nursing staff and in her report for September 1917 Matron Creal paid tribute to their 'unselfish devotion to duty' after the first battle of Gaza when some nurses were on duty for eighteen hours at a time.
Conditions at Abbassia were primitive: for instance primus stoves were the only means of obtaining boiling water for sterilization. In February 1918 the hospital moved to Port Said; in both locations the staff did their best to provide first-rate nursing care in an atmosphere as relaxed as military discipline would permit. H. S. Gullett, the official historian, praised 'the service of the splendid band of Australian nursing sisters who, under the inspiration of … Miss Rose Creal … greeted the battered men from the front as they reached hospital and nursed them back to strength, or softened the close of their soldier-life'. 'No womanhood', he wrote, 'has ever presented a richer association of feminine tenderness and sheer capacity'.
For her services in Egypt Matron Creal was awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st Class) in the New Year honours of 1919. She returned to Australia in January 1920 and was demobilized in May; in April she had resumed her position as matron of Sydney Hospital. Next year, following an attack of appendicitis, she died on 7 August. One obituary described her as 'sympathetic, yet firm, and thoroughly capable and conscientious'. She was accorded a military funeral, her nurse's cap lying on the flag-draped gun-carriage. Hundreds of people had to be turned away from the memorial service in St James Anglican Church, and the funeral procession to Waverley cemetery was one of the most impressive seen in Sydney. The Rose Creal Medal, established in her honour, is the highest award made by Sydney Hospital to students of the Lucy Osburn School of Nursing.
by Freda MacDonnell
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/creal-rose-ann-5814
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday 15 January 1919 page 12
Rose Ann Creal (1865-1921), nurse, was born on 3 November 1865 at Young, New South Wales, daughter of John Creal, miner, and his wife Ann, née Brady, both of whom were Irish-born. Her childhood was spent in the gold-mining districts of Young and Parkes. She was educated at home by her father and when 16 began work in a small hospital at Parkes. Recognizing the quality of her young assistant, the matron there arranged for her to be taken on as a probationer at Sydney Hospital and by about 1891 Rose Creal was head nurse of a ward.
When the hospital's matron, E. J. Gould, resigned in 1898 Senior Sister Creal was made acting matron. Her appointment was confirmed in February 1899 and later that year she became a founding member and councillor of the Trained Nurses' Association of New South Wales. According to some of her nurses, she was a strict disciplinarian but did her utmost to promote the welfare of those under her care, thereby winning both respect and admiration. She was a large, handsome woman of extraordinary strength and could not understand why some of her staff found their twelve-hour shifts exhausting.
Before World War I Matron Creal was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve, and in October 1914 she was appointed principal matron of the 2nd Military District (New South Wales), while remaining matron of Sydney Hospital. Her main military duty was the selection of nurses for active service, a role she fulfilled until 14 August 1916 when she too enlisted in the A.A.N.S., Australian Imperial Force. Embarking on the hospital ship, Karoola, on 19 August, she assumed duty on 23 September as matron of the 14th Australian General Hospital at Abbassia, Egypt. The casualties of the Australian Light Horse were treated almost exclusively there, and in November 1916 numbered about 570. Following heavy fighting at Magdhaba and Rafa the numbers rose to over 900 and by May 1917, after the battle of Gaza, to 1140. These increases placed great strains on the nursing staff and in her report for September 1917 Matron Creal paid tribute to their 'unselfish devotion to duty' after the first battle of Gaza when some nurses were on duty for eighteen hours at a time.
Conditions at Abbassia were primitive: for instance primus stoves were the only means of obtaining boiling water for sterilization. In February 1918 the hospital moved to Port Said; in both locations the staff did their best to provide first-rate nursing care in an atmosphere as relaxed as military discipline would permit. H. S. Gullett, the official historian, praised 'the service of the splendid band of Australian nursing sisters who, under the inspiration of … Miss Rose Creal … greeted the battered men from the front as they reached hospital and nursed them back to strength, or softened the close of their soldier-life'. 'No womanhood', he wrote, 'has ever presented a richer association of feminine tenderness and sheer capacity'.
For her services in Egypt Matron Creal was awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st Class) in the New Year honours of 1919. She returned to Australia in January 1920 and was demobilized in May; in April she had resumed her position as matron of Sydney Hospital. Next year, following an attack of appendicitis, she died on 7 August. One obituary described her as 'sympathetic, yet firm, and thoroughly capable and conscientious'. She was accorded a military funeral, her nurse's cap lying on the flag-draped gun-carriage. Hundreds of people had to be turned away from the memorial service in St James Anglican Church, and the funeral procession to Waverley cemetery was one of the most impressive seen in Sydney. The Rose Creal Medal, established in her honour, is the highest award made by Sydney Hospital to students of the Lucy Osburn School of Nursing.
by Freda MacDonnell
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/creal-rose-ann-5814
CREASY, Lucy
Staff Nurse
AANS Born 14 January 1886 at Auburn, SA Daughter of James Edward CREASY and Mary Ann nee MILLER Age 33 years Training in Adelaide Hospital Volunteered in AIF 1914 but was deemed medically unfit Enlisted 05 May 1917 at Keswick Embarked 12 May 1917 in Melbourne per “Benella” Service in England and France Returned to Australia 21 January 1919 per “Ceramic” Appointment Terminated 31 May 1919 Died 16 August 1938 at her residence 178 Archer Street, North Adelaide Beloved wife of Stanley G BROWN, late of Langhorne's Creek Buried West Terrace AIF Cemetery Light Oval 1AN W 11 Photograph - The Chronicle Saturday 19 May 1917 page 25 |
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SISTER LUCY CREASY PASSES
Former Pirie Hospital Matron and War Nurse The funeral took place in Adelaide on Thursday of Mrs. Stanley G. Brown, better known to many Pirie folk by her maiden name, Sister Lucy Creasy. Mrs. Brown was given a funeral with military honours and was interred in the diggers' portion of West Terrace Cemetery as a mark of remembrance of her valuable work as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Corps, A.I.F. Mrs. Brown was a daughter of Mrs. M. A. and the late Mr. J. E. Creasy, of Pirie. She received her nursing training at Adelaide Hospital, and was later district nurse in Adelaide, Gawler, Hindmarsh, and Woodville. She was born at Auburn. |
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Sister Creasy was nursing in Melbourne when the war broke out, and she immediately returned to her own State and enlisted for nursing service abroad. She was in the thick of the famous retreat from Mons.
Soon after her return from overseas she received the appointment as matron of Pirie Hospital. She left here 15 or 16 years ago, and some time later married Mr. Brown. She had been in indifferent health for some time, but her death was entirely unexpected.
The officiating minister at the burial service on Thursday was Rev. R. M. Fulford, of Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, who presided at the marriage ceremony of Mr. and Mrs. Brown.
Two brothers and a sister are left Messrs. A. and C. Creasy and Mrs. S. Milnes, all of Solomontown. Mrs. M.A. Creasy, who is aged 83 and is an invalid, is at present residing with Mrs.Milnes. Messrs. Creasy and Mrs. Milnes went to Adelaide for the funeral.
Recorder Saturday 20 August 1938 page 3
Soon after her return from overseas she received the appointment as matron of Pirie Hospital. She left here 15 or 16 years ago, and some time later married Mr. Brown. She had been in indifferent health for some time, but her death was entirely unexpected.
The officiating minister at the burial service on Thursday was Rev. R. M. Fulford, of Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, who presided at the marriage ceremony of Mr. and Mrs. Brown.
Two brothers and a sister are left Messrs. A. and C. Creasy and Mrs. S. Milnes, all of Solomontown. Mrs. M.A. Creasy, who is aged 83 and is an invalid, is at present residing with Mrs.Milnes. Messrs. Creasy and Mrs. Milnes went to Adelaide for the funeral.
Recorder Saturday 20 August 1938 page 3
CRESSWICK, Blanche Amelia
Sister
AANS 1st Australian General Hosptial Egypt Born 1875 at Newcastle, NSW Daughter of John and Hannah CRESSWICK Aged 40 years Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse Enlisted 26 April 1915 Embarked 15 May 1915 Served in France Returned to Australia 11 January 1919 per 'Takada' Appointment terminated 10 April 1919 Did not marry Died 22 April 1946 at Bankstown, NSW Read more here |
Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 7 November 1918
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2111, position 122
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1918
Location in London Gazette: Page 6475, position 1
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 7 November 1918
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2111, position 122
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1918
Location in London Gazette: Page 6475, position 1
Awarded Royal Red Cross
Sister Blanche Cresswick's distinctive services at the front have won for her the coveted Royal Red Cross, and, along with it, a letter which she will probably prize just as highly. It is from General Birdwood 'I am so very pleased' he says in his letter to her 'to see that you have been awarded the Royal Red Cross in recognition of all your good and loyal work for us, and I congratulate you most heartily upon this distinction. I am so glad, also, to have this opportunity of thanking you for all you have done for us, and send you my best wishes for the future.' The Matron-in-Chief also sent her congratulations.
Sister Cresswick, who is the daughter of the late Mr. J Cresswick of Newcastle, and a sister of Mr.
E A Cresswick, chief Sanitary Inspector of the board of Health, has been on active service abroad
since May 1916, having been given leave of absence as matron at the Grafton Hospital - a post she
has occupied for some years - in order that she might proceed to the front. She was trained at the Newcastle Hospital.
The honour now bestowed upon her crowns a period of long devoted and faithful service.
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday 16 August 1918 page 8
Photograph Courtesy of Faye Threlfall
WW1 Australian and New Zealand Nurses
Sister Blanche Cresswick's distinctive services at the front have won for her the coveted Royal Red Cross, and, along with it, a letter which she will probably prize just as highly. It is from General Birdwood 'I am so very pleased' he says in his letter to her 'to see that you have been awarded the Royal Red Cross in recognition of all your good and loyal work for us, and I congratulate you most heartily upon this distinction. I am so glad, also, to have this opportunity of thanking you for all you have done for us, and send you my best wishes for the future.' The Matron-in-Chief also sent her congratulations.
Sister Cresswick, who is the daughter of the late Mr. J Cresswick of Newcastle, and a sister of Mr.
E A Cresswick, chief Sanitary Inspector of the board of Health, has been on active service abroad
since May 1916, having been given leave of absence as matron at the Grafton Hospital - a post she
has occupied for some years - in order that she might proceed to the front. She was trained at the Newcastle Hospital.
The honour now bestowed upon her crowns a period of long devoted and faithful service.
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday 16 August 1918 page 8
Photograph Courtesy of Faye Threlfall
WW1 Australian and New Zealand Nurses
Sister Blanche Cresswick, R.R.C.
She is a daughter of the late Mr. J. Cresswick of Newcastle, and a sister of Mr. E. A. Cresswick, isanitary inspector of the N.S.W. Board ot Health, she has been on active service abroad since May, 1915 having been given leave of absence as matron of the Grafton Hospital — a post she has occupied for year: --in order that she might proceed to the front. She was trained at Newcastle Hospital. Sister Cresswick first saw service abroad in Egypt, and was mentioned in despatches for her work there. She later proceeded to The Western front. In France and in Belgium she recently served for eight months at casualty clearing stations, which were several times bombed and shelled by the enemy, the staff's being forced to remove their patients from the shelled areas with the utmost haste. She has now been awarded the Royal Red Cross.
Sydney Mail Wednesday 28 August 1918 page 24
She is a daughter of the late Mr. J. Cresswick of Newcastle, and a sister of Mr. E. A. Cresswick, isanitary inspector of the N.S.W. Board ot Health, she has been on active service abroad since May, 1915 having been given leave of absence as matron of the Grafton Hospital — a post she has occupied for year: --in order that she might proceed to the front. She was trained at Newcastle Hospital. Sister Cresswick first saw service abroad in Egypt, and was mentioned in despatches for her work there. She later proceeded to The Western front. In France and in Belgium she recently served for eight months at casualty clearing stations, which were several times bombed and shelled by the enemy, the staff's being forced to remove their patients from the shelled areas with the utmost haste. She has now been awarded the Royal Red Cross.
Sydney Mail Wednesday 28 August 1918 page 24
CRISFIELD, Jane Emma
Staff Nurse
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Service Reserve
Born 1886 in Ararat, Vic.
Daughter of Walter James CRISFIELD and Isabella Dunn nee LILLIE
Of 148 Station St., Fairfield Park, Vic.
Embarked from Australia
Served from 18 December 1915 to 23 December 1917
Arrived in France 02 April 1916 to 26 General Hosptial
Departed unit 14 June 1917 France 27 July 1917 as unfit for duty.
"An excellent surgical nurse. In acute surgical ward here was equally good at dressings and the many details of ward routine."
December 1917 residing at Queen Mary's Hospital, 40 Bedford Place, W
Voluntarily resigned - returned to Victoria on account of Mother's ill health
Embarked for Australia 15 February 1918
Address 'Kiora' 148 Station Street, Fairfield Park, Vic.
Married James Thomas TAYLOR in 1920 in Vic.
Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Service Reserve
Born 1886 in Ararat, Vic.
Daughter of Walter James CRISFIELD and Isabella Dunn nee LILLIE
Of 148 Station St., Fairfield Park, Vic.
Embarked from Australia
Served from 18 December 1915 to 23 December 1917
Arrived in France 02 April 1916 to 26 General Hosptial
Departed unit 14 June 1917 France 27 July 1917 as unfit for duty.
"An excellent surgical nurse. In acute surgical ward here was equally good at dressings and the many details of ward routine."
December 1917 residing at Queen Mary's Hospital, 40 Bedford Place, W
Voluntarily resigned - returned to Victoria on account of Mother's ill health
Embarked for Australia 15 February 1918
Address 'Kiora' 148 Station Street, Fairfield Park, Vic.
Married James Thomas TAYLOR in 1920 in Vic.
CROHAN, Eugenie Augusta
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AANS – No 7 Section Sea Transport Staff Born 1883 at Casterton, Vic. Daughter of John CROHAN and Anastasia nee McMAHON Age 31 years Enlisted 28 February 1916 Transport Duty “Marathon” “Ulysses” “Ormonde” “Matatua” “Medic” “Indarra” Service in England between transports Contracted Mumps July 1916 Promoted to Sister 07 January 1918 Appointment terminated 14 January 1919 Married JOHNSON Died 10 January 1961 in Earling, England |
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CROLL nee PAYNE, Marion Winifred
http://heritage.saintandrews.org.au/marian-winifred-croll/
Sister
AANS
Born 1886 in Brisbane, Qld.
Daughter of Arthur Peel PAYNE and David Gifford CROLL
Wife of Major David Gifford CROLL
She married in 1912.
Enlisted 11 November 1914
Embarked 21 November 1914
Discharged as medically unfit 06 June 1916
Marian was killed in the BOAC Lockhead Constellation crash which occurred at
Kallang airport Singapore on 13 March 1954.
There were 33 passengers killed and most of them were trapped on the plane when it caught fire.
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BRISBANE WOMAN KILLED
DOCTOR'S WIDOW ON WAY TO JAPAN
Mrs Winifred Croll, 68, of Joseph Street, Sherwood, Brisbane, who was killed in the Constellation crash at Singapore on Saturday, was on her way to Japan. She was to have joined her sister, Mrs. F. Clinton, a Sydney commercial artist, at Singapore, and they were to have travelled to Japan on a six weeks' tour. Mrs. Croll was the widow of Dr. Gifford Croll who practised in Sherwood for 35 years. In Egypt in the 1914-18 war, Mrs. Croll nursed members of the AIF who had been wounded at Gallipoli. She was one of the first Australian nurses to go to the Middle East. After her return to Australia in 1916, she became the first secretary of the Queensland War' Nurses' Fund, which helped World War I nurses. Friends in Brisbane said last night that this set the pattern for the rest of her life. She was ''a great citizen, and was always helping someone.' She was once a Queensland Guides Commissioner and Red Cross Society member.
The Courier-Mail Monday 15 March 1954 page 1
For crash victim
Fellow nurses and 200 friends of the late Mrs.Gifford Croll placed, wreaths on the Shrine of Remembrance this week. Mrs. Croll, widow of the late Dr. Gifford Croll, of Sherwood, Brisbane, lost her life in the Constellation crash at Singapore on March 13.The moment of remembrance was arranged by the Returned Sisters' sub branch of the RSL, of which Mrs. Croll was a member.
Among wreaths was one from the council and members of the British Medical Association. Rev. Norman Webster gave a short address and prayer. Mrs. Croll was among the first Australian nurses to go to the Middle East during the First World War, leaving in the Kyarra in November, 1914.
Sunday Mail Sunday 28 March 1954 page 5
AANS
Born 1886 in Brisbane, Qld.
Daughter of Arthur Peel PAYNE and David Gifford CROLL
Wife of Major David Gifford CROLL
She married in 1912.
Enlisted 11 November 1914
Embarked 21 November 1914
Discharged as medically unfit 06 June 1916
Marian was killed in the BOAC Lockhead Constellation crash which occurred at
Kallang airport Singapore on 13 March 1954.
There were 33 passengers killed and most of them were trapped on the plane when it caught fire.
Read more here
BRISBANE WOMAN KILLED
DOCTOR'S WIDOW ON WAY TO JAPAN
Mrs Winifred Croll, 68, of Joseph Street, Sherwood, Brisbane, who was killed in the Constellation crash at Singapore on Saturday, was on her way to Japan. She was to have joined her sister, Mrs. F. Clinton, a Sydney commercial artist, at Singapore, and they were to have travelled to Japan on a six weeks' tour. Mrs. Croll was the widow of Dr. Gifford Croll who practised in Sherwood for 35 years. In Egypt in the 1914-18 war, Mrs. Croll nursed members of the AIF who had been wounded at Gallipoli. She was one of the first Australian nurses to go to the Middle East. After her return to Australia in 1916, she became the first secretary of the Queensland War' Nurses' Fund, which helped World War I nurses. Friends in Brisbane said last night that this set the pattern for the rest of her life. She was ''a great citizen, and was always helping someone.' She was once a Queensland Guides Commissioner and Red Cross Society member.
The Courier-Mail Monday 15 March 1954 page 1
For crash victim
Fellow nurses and 200 friends of the late Mrs.Gifford Croll placed, wreaths on the Shrine of Remembrance this week. Mrs. Croll, widow of the late Dr. Gifford Croll, of Sherwood, Brisbane, lost her life in the Constellation crash at Singapore on March 13.The moment of remembrance was arranged by the Returned Sisters' sub branch of the RSL, of which Mrs. Croll was a member.
Among wreaths was one from the council and members of the British Medical Association. Rev. Norman Webster gave a short address and prayer. Mrs. Croll was among the first Australian nurses to go to the Middle East during the First World War, leaving in the Kyarra in November, 1914.
Sunday Mail Sunday 28 March 1954 page 5
CROMMELIN, Nellie Weston
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Sister
French Red Cross Bluebirds Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reseve Born 17 January 1882 Daughter of George WHITING and Frances nee DAWSON Embarked for France per "Kanowna" July 1916 Married Claude William Johnston BARKER 23 August 1924 Died 1973 www.awm.gov.au P02128.001 Party of twenty Australian Red Cross nurses, sponsored by the NSW Jockey Club, and know as the 'Bluebirds' because of their blue uniforms. |
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BARKER-CROMMELIN. -August 23, 1924, at Church of England, Lindfield, by the Rev. C. P. Brown, Claude W. J. Barker, son of the late F. L. Barker, to Nellie Weston, daughter of the late George W. Crommelin and Mrs. Crommelin, of Finchley, Gordon-road, Lindfield .
Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 30 September 1924 page 8
Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 30 September 1924 page 8
CRONIN, Inez / Ivy Clare
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Sister
AANS Born 1888 at Deniliquin, NSW Daughter of Edward George CRONIN and Agnes Alice nee JERR Age 25 years Enlisted 12 June 1915 Transport Duty on Hospital Ship “Kanowna” Service in England Promoted to Sister 08 November 1916 Returned to Australia 25 September 1917 Appointment discontinued at own request18 October 1917, as she did not volunteer for continual Sea Transport Duty Re-enlisted 25 October 1918 Embarked in Sydney per “Malta” Service in India Returned to Australia 10 December 1919 per “Charon” Appointment terminated 10 January 1920 Married 1927 to Alan L A DeGROEN Died 17 April 1976 in WA Aged 85 years Buried Karrakatta Cemetery Lawn 5A In Sir T Meagher Gardnes AC 0001 |
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CROSBY, Julia Mary
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Sister
AANS – No3 AGH Born 03 October 1869 at Armagh, SA Daughter of Walter Thomas CROSBY and Ann nee CAMERON Age 38 years Trained Adelaide Hospital Matron at the Miners' Hospital, Boulder, Kalgoorlie, WA Enlisted 24 May 1915 Embarked 24 May 1915 per 'Moultan' from Fremantle, WA Arrived in Plymouth, England one month later. Served in - Lemnos (Mudros) - 3rd Australian General Hospital Egypt - 3rd Australian General Hospital England - Kitchener Hospital, Brighton, Sussex France - 2nd Australian General Hospital Wimereux near Boulogne Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches of 08 November 1918 Returned to Australia 07 April 1919 per “Traz-os-Montes” On Duty Appointment terminated 23 October 1919 Died 10 August 1941 at Couridjah, Picton Lakes Settlement, NSW Photograph courtesy of Gil Daw |
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Mentioned in despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 881, position 62
Date of London Gazette: 31 December 1918
Location in London Gazette: Page 15229, position 85
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 881, position 62
Date of London Gazette: 31 December 1918
Location in London Gazette: Page 15229, position 85
The death occurred at Picton Lakes Settlement, New South Wales, on August 10, of Miss Julia Mary Crosby, who at the time of her death was matron of the settlement. Miss Crosby, who was the third daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Crosby, was born at Clare, S.A., and trained as a nurse at the Adelaide Hospital. On the outbreak of war in 1914 she was matron of the Boulder City Hospital, Kalgoorlie and volunteered for the A.I.F.Nursing Service, with which she saw service in Egypt, Lemnos, England and France (A G H Boulogne). Two sisters Mrs. A. M Dowling, Manoora, and Mrs Howard Lloyd, and one brother Mr A. Marshall Crosby, Sydney, survive.
The Advertiser Saturday 16 August 1941 page 9
The Advertiser Saturday 16 August 1941 page 9
CROSS
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CROSSING, Marion
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 28 January 1884 at Mudgee, NSW Daughter of George CROSSING and Ellen Maria nee LAMROCK Age 32 years Training Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Enlisted 29 September 1915 Embarked 09 May 1917 in Sydney per “Ulysses” Service England and Italy Returned to Australia 02 March 1919 per “Derbyshire” On Duty Appointment terminated 14 June 1919 Married Daniel William MOUAT 28 April 1920 Died 04 August 1966 at Renmark, SA Aged 82 years Resided Neutral Bay, NSW Buried Renmark Cemetery (New Section) |
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MOUAT-CROSSING - Aprll 28, 1920 at St. James' Church, Thornbury. by the Rev. R. B. Davison, Daniel Wiliam (late A.I.F.). second son of James Mouat, Yale, Scotland, to Marion (late A.A.N.S.), fourth daughter of Mrs. Crossing and the late George Crossing, of Mudgee, New South Wales.
CROSSMAN, Mary Elspeth Margharita
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 22 January 1887 in Sydney, NSW
Daughter of Edward CROSSMAN and Elizabeth nee TINN
Sister of Herbert Albury Danvers CROSSMAN
Age 30 years
Enlisted 24 May 1917
Embarked 09 June 1917 in Sydney per “Mooltan”
Service in Salonika
Contracted Dysentery October 1917
Returned to Australia 30 August 1918 per “Wiltshire” On Duty
Resigned appointment 17 October 1918
Married James Arthur LAMBDEN
Lived in New Zealand
Died 1967 in New Zealand
AANS
Born 22 January 1887 in Sydney, NSW
Daughter of Edward CROSSMAN and Elizabeth nee TINN
Sister of Herbert Albury Danvers CROSSMAN
Age 30 years
Enlisted 24 May 1917
Embarked 09 June 1917 in Sydney per “Mooltan”
Service in Salonika
Contracted Dysentery October 1917
Returned to Australia 30 August 1918 per “Wiltshire” On Duty
Resigned appointment 17 October 1918
Married James Arthur LAMBDEN
Lived in New Zealand
Died 1967 in New Zealand
CROUCH, Elsie Isabel
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1878 in Bathurst, NSW
Daughter of Henry Augustus CROUCH and Isabella nee TENNANT
Age 37 years
Enlisted 24 July 1915
Embarked 20 August 1915
Service Egypt and France
Resigned appointment due to marriage in UK 23 November 1916
Returned to Australia with Husband 6 May 1919 per “Dongola”
Married Dr. Denis Joseph GLISSAN (Major, 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France - Orthopaedic Surgeon)
Died 21 November 1964 in NSW
AANS
Born 1878 in Bathurst, NSW
Daughter of Henry Augustus CROUCH and Isabella nee TENNANT
Age 37 years
Enlisted 24 July 1915
Embarked 20 August 1915
Service Egypt and France
Resigned appointment due to marriage in UK 23 November 1916
Returned to Australia with Husband 6 May 1919 per “Dongola”
Married Dr. Denis Joseph GLISSAN (Major, 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France - Orthopaedic Surgeon)
Died 21 November 1964 in NSW
CROZIER, Lynette Edgell
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Sister
Australian Red Cross Born 1888 in Mudgee, NSW Daughter of Rev. Elizs CROZIER and Sarah Maria nee WILLIS Embarked for France per 'Kanowna' July 1916 Mobile Surgical Hospital No 1. The hospital was established by Mrs Mary Borden-Turner, to operate in the French section of the lines on the Western Front. In 1917-18 she employed, through the Australian Red Cross, four Australians to nurse wounded French soldiers at her hospital, known in French as Hospital Surgical Mobile No. 1. Party of twenty Australian Red Cross nurses, sponsored by the NSW Jockey Club, and know as the 'Bluebirds' because of their blue uniforms. Among a group of twenty civilian trained nurses who volunteered in Australia in 1916 for service in France. The hospital was situated first at Beverau, twenty miles from Dunkirk, then at Oest Hoek. Married Eric D Lloyd JONES 1933 in NSW Died 13 October 1948 at 3 Fry Street, Chatswood, NSW |
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Nursing in France.
LETTER FROM AUSTRALIAN GIRL
GERMANS BOMBED THE HOSPITAL.
Nurse Lynette Crozier, one of the 20 nurses sent by the Red Cross Society to help in the French-hospitals, writing from Chamberay to a friend here, says: "Our hospital is placed much nearer the lines now, so that we are in a position of danger all the time, and there being nothing but an advanced dressing station in front of us, we receive the men in straight from the trenches. Being so near we are able to save many more cases. "We have had plenty of surgical work, and after gas attacks
have had large numbers of men in. In many cases getting them early meant that a good many of
them pulled round. In fact, we had only a small percentage of deaths. At times when we had rushes
one had to work part of the night as well as day-time, and food is quite a secondary consideration.
After our last bad time I nursed a boy of 19. He looked 15, he was so small and sweet. He spent his
time asking, 'Why we were so good, etc.? as only a Frenchman can, when it was not 'our place,' as
he put it. He was quite the most pathetic case away from his mother and people. We were talking
to one of our best surgeons the other day, who said, 'Well, you know, Mademoiselle, if you were
not here we should lose exactly half the cases we now save.'"We have our excitements and horrors,
too. About five weeks ago we were all in bed about 11 p.m., when the wretched Taubes went over our huts, making their usual unpleasant sounds. They continued for sometime, and then we thought our hut had been hit by a bomb, they were so close, but one had fallen just across the road in the field corner. We then heard another, and a fearful scream. Everybody rushed to the windows or outside, and found a bomb had fallen in the middle of the hospital, and had wounded one of our night nurses badly in the foot. The foot was almost blown away. Poor girl, she will not walk for a long time, and then never without an appliance, and even yet it may be necessary to amputate it. She is a Canadian girl. The theatre and most of the huts were riddled with shrapnel, and we are still grateful for the marvellous escape of that night, and hope never to have another like it. Both the night nurses were given the Croix de Guerre, which we all appreciated. Still a medal isn't much compensation for a foot, is l:t?In several of the huts the screens.quilts and bedclothes were torn and pierced very much.
LETTER FROM AUSTRALIAN GIRL
GERMANS BOMBED THE HOSPITAL.
Nurse Lynette Crozier, one of the 20 nurses sent by the Red Cross Society to help in the French-hospitals, writing from Chamberay to a friend here, says: "Our hospital is placed much nearer the lines now, so that we are in a position of danger all the time, and there being nothing but an advanced dressing station in front of us, we receive the men in straight from the trenches. Being so near we are able to save many more cases. "We have had plenty of surgical work, and after gas attacks
have had large numbers of men in. In many cases getting them early meant that a good many of
them pulled round. In fact, we had only a small percentage of deaths. At times when we had rushes
one had to work part of the night as well as day-time, and food is quite a secondary consideration.
After our last bad time I nursed a boy of 19. He looked 15, he was so small and sweet. He spent his
time asking, 'Why we were so good, etc.? as only a Frenchman can, when it was not 'our place,' as
he put it. He was quite the most pathetic case away from his mother and people. We were talking
to one of our best surgeons the other day, who said, 'Well, you know, Mademoiselle, if you were
not here we should lose exactly half the cases we now save.'"We have our excitements and horrors,
too. About five weeks ago we were all in bed about 11 p.m., when the wretched Taubes went over our huts, making their usual unpleasant sounds. They continued for sometime, and then we thought our hut had been hit by a bomb, they were so close, but one had fallen just across the road in the field corner. We then heard another, and a fearful scream. Everybody rushed to the windows or outside, and found a bomb had fallen in the middle of the hospital, and had wounded one of our night nurses badly in the foot. The foot was almost blown away. Poor girl, she will not walk for a long time, and then never without an appliance, and even yet it may be necessary to amputate it. She is a Canadian girl. The theatre and most of the huts were riddled with shrapnel, and we are still grateful for the marvellous escape of that night, and hope never to have another like it. Both the night nurses were given the Croix de Guerre, which we all appreciated. Still a medal isn't much compensation for a foot, is l:t?In several of the huts the screens.quilts and bedclothes were torn and pierced very much.
Windows broken everywhere. One orderly was also wounded. One of the patients was covered with feathers
where an eclat had gone into his pillows. His sheets were just torn to bits and his face was covered with glass
in the form of dust, but he was not a mite injured and most cheerful. It does seem awful that they cannot get
rest even in hospital. Hospitals more than 10 miles further inward get bombs. The next night we had a gas
attack, which reached and passed over us, but, fortunately, no harm was done, more than that, some of the vegetation round turned brown. Everybody was given the alarm about 10.30. and I remember getting out to
shut the door and window, and Sister Wallace and self got our masks on. Then being deadly tired after the
night before promptly went to sleep. Sisters Loxton and Hough were not disturbed and didn't get much sleep
and having a hole in the wall some of the gas got through sufficient to start two of the girls vomiting because
they had not got their masks on. But fortunately, nobody suffered. One of the English sisters, who had been in the war zone for ever two years gave in and she and her friend left. It was quite time, too one couldn't stand many years of that. So with a nurse to look after the wounded sister and two on holiday, seven of us were left for work next day, and it did per in. Each of us had two wards instead of one, and we really felt as though we could not possibly cope with it, but all went fairly well. I had one ward full of gas cases, and the one next door of wounded, but they were not now cases; so were very patient and I did not see much of them that day. "Now at about two days' notice we had orders to get up and more (that's what comes of being the only movable hospital attached) two weeks' rest and we expect to go back to where we were as there are no more of our troops just where we are now. As we bore the brunt of the last move we were sent for a holiday, while there are no patients, and so four of us came here for mountain air and a rest. We are given first-class return tickets, and with special books can travel anywhere at half rates. At this hotel the manager gives us special Red Cross rates."
West Gippsland Gazette Tuesday 16 October 1917 page 3
where an eclat had gone into his pillows. His sheets were just torn to bits and his face was covered with glass
in the form of dust, but he was not a mite injured and most cheerful. It does seem awful that they cannot get
rest even in hospital. Hospitals more than 10 miles further inward get bombs. The next night we had a gas
attack, which reached and passed over us, but, fortunately, no harm was done, more than that, some of the vegetation round turned brown. Everybody was given the alarm about 10.30. and I remember getting out to
shut the door and window, and Sister Wallace and self got our masks on. Then being deadly tired after the
night before promptly went to sleep. Sisters Loxton and Hough were not disturbed and didn't get much sleep
and having a hole in the wall some of the gas got through sufficient to start two of the girls vomiting because
they had not got their masks on. But fortunately, nobody suffered. One of the English sisters, who had been in the war zone for ever two years gave in and she and her friend left. It was quite time, too one couldn't stand many years of that. So with a nurse to look after the wounded sister and two on holiday, seven of us were left for work next day, and it did per in. Each of us had two wards instead of one, and we really felt as though we could not possibly cope with it, but all went fairly well. I had one ward full of gas cases, and the one next door of wounded, but they were not now cases; so were very patient and I did not see much of them that day. "Now at about two days' notice we had orders to get up and more (that's what comes of being the only movable hospital attached) two weeks' rest and we expect to go back to where we were as there are no more of our troops just where we are now. As we bore the brunt of the last move we were sent for a holiday, while there are no patients, and so four of us came here for mountain air and a rest. We are given first-class return tickets, and with special books can travel anywhere at half rates. At this hotel the manager gives us special Red Cross rates."
West Gippsland Gazette Tuesday 16 October 1917 page 3
CRUICKSHANK, Myra Annie
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Born 1891 in NSW
Daughter of Duncan CRUICKSHANK and Caroline nee MARSHALL Married Carlyle Gordon WILLIS 16 March 1923 in Scot's Church, Church Hill, Sydney Died 12 February 1991 in Sydney, NSW Aged 100 years Buried Northern Suburbs Memorial Park Another war nurse to date is Miss Myra Cruickshank, who has entered the Base Hospital at Randwick to be initiated into the mysteries of hospital work. She is the youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Duncan Cruickshank, of Black Creek Station, Wyalong. Punch Thursday 08 June 1916 page 36 |
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WILLIS—CRUICKSHANK
A pretty and fashionable wedding was celebrated at Scot's Church, Church Hill, Sydney, on Friday evening, March 16th when Myra, youngest daughter of the late Duncan Cruickshank, of Back Creek Station, Wyalong, and of Mrs. Cruickshank, of 'Kimeree," Tamworth, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Dr. Carlyle Gordon Willis, B.A., of Tamworth. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr . Cruickshank; was attired in a white frock of beaded georgette. She carried a shower bouquet, gift of the bridegroom, and wore a beautiful veil of point lace, loaned by Mrs Hockhart, of Tamworth. She was at tended by her sister, Miss Alberta Cruickshank, and Miss Helen Kelly, who wore early Victorian
gowns of apricot and mauve taffeta respectively. They carried posies to match, and each wore expanding pearl initial wristlets, the gifts of the bridegroom. Mr Stanley Geddes and Mr. Fred Langley, of Sydney, attended as best man and groomsman. A reception was held at Petty's
Hotel, the guests being received by Mrs D. Cruickshank, attired in a dress of black cashmere de soie and georgette, and carrying a posy of purple asters; assisted by Mrs W. Cruickshank in a frock of navy beaded tricolette posy of red carnations. The happy couple left per car for the South Coast, where the honeymoon is being spent. The bride's going away frock was of navy bue Morrocain trimmed with skunk, hat to match. The
bridegroom's gift to the bride was an attache case with tortoise shell fittings. Their future home is to be at Tamworth.
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A pretty and fashionable wedding was celebrated at Scot's Church, Church Hill, Sydney, on Friday evening, March 16th when Myra, youngest daughter of the late Duncan Cruickshank, of Back Creek Station, Wyalong, and of Mrs. Cruickshank, of 'Kimeree," Tamworth, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Dr. Carlyle Gordon Willis, B.A., of Tamworth. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Mr . Cruickshank; was attired in a white frock of beaded georgette. She carried a shower bouquet, gift of the bridegroom, and wore a beautiful veil of point lace, loaned by Mrs Hockhart, of Tamworth. She was at tended by her sister, Miss Alberta Cruickshank, and Miss Helen Kelly, who wore early Victorian
gowns of apricot and mauve taffeta respectively. They carried posies to match, and each wore expanding pearl initial wristlets, the gifts of the bridegroom. Mr Stanley Geddes and Mr. Fred Langley, of Sydney, attended as best man and groomsman. A reception was held at Petty's
Hotel, the guests being received by Mrs D. Cruickshank, attired in a dress of black cashmere de soie and georgette, and carrying a posy of purple asters; assisted by Mrs W. Cruickshank in a frock of navy beaded tricolette posy of red carnations. The happy couple left per car for the South Coast, where the honeymoon is being spent. The bride's going away frock was of navy bue Morrocain trimmed with skunk, hat to match. The
bridegroom's gift to the bride was an attache case with tortoise shell fittings. Their future home is to be at Tamworth.
The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette Friday 06 April 1923 page 12
