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TRAILL, Dorothy Maud
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 10 August 1885 at Cassilis, NSW Daughter of Arthur Irby TRAILL and Maria nee WINDEYER Of Cassillis, NSW Occupation prior to enlisting Nurse Trained at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Enlisted 4 December 1916 Embarked 12 June 1917 from Melbourne per ‘Mooltan’ Aged 31 years Served in Egypt in the 14th Australian General Hospital Returned to Australia 9 May 1919 per ‘Kildonian Castle’ Appointment Terminated 9 June 1919 Did not marry Died 14 July 1969 at Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone, NSW Source of photographs - Discovering Anzacs Courtesy of Geoffrey Traill |
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Return of War Nurse
Nurse Dorothy Traill was among the nurses to arrive by the Kildonian Castle on Friday. Mr. Traill and Miss Traill went for Quirindi to meet Nurse Traill. Nurse Traill, who was trained at Prince Alfred Hospital, Syney was one of the 273 nurses who left for Egypt by the Mooltan. She was attached to the 14th AGH in Abassia, and for the last 12 months at Port Said. Miss Traill's sister Mrs. Davis, wife of Major John Davis of the 12th Light Horse, has been in charge of the Red Cross Store attached to the hospital since 1915, and is expected to arrive in Sydney next month, together with her children. Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative Thursday 12 June 1919 page 17 |
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TRANT, Lillias Emma A
Staff Nurse
AANS
Born 1886 in Sandhurst, Vic.
Daughter of Samuel TRANT and Lucy Sophia nee TULLOCH
Of Boxhill, Victoria
Occupation prior to enlisting Nurse
Enlisted 11 April 1917
Embarked 25 April 1917 from Melbourne per ‘Karoola’
Aged 31 years
Served in England & France
Returned to Australia per ‘Llanstephen Castle’ leaving England on 15 February 1918
Appointment Terminated 27 July 1918
Married Ernest WEITNAUER
Died 19 November 1951 in Geelong, Vic.
Late of Batesford, Vic.
AANS
Born 1886 in Sandhurst, Vic.
Daughter of Samuel TRANT and Lucy Sophia nee TULLOCH
Of Boxhill, Victoria
Occupation prior to enlisting Nurse
Enlisted 11 April 1917
Embarked 25 April 1917 from Melbourne per ‘Karoola’
Aged 31 years
Served in England & France
Returned to Australia per ‘Llanstephen Castle’ leaving England on 15 February 1918
Appointment Terminated 27 July 1918
Married Ernest WEITNAUER
Died 19 November 1951 in Geelong, Vic.
Late of Batesford, Vic.
TRANTER, Elsie May
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 1886 in Geelong, Vic. Daughter of Charles Evenden TRANTER and Mary Ann nee ROBERTS Sister of Charles Herbert TRANTER Of Atkinson St, Oakleigh, Victoria Occupation prior to enlisting Nurse Enlisted 17 August 1916 Embarked 6 December 1916 from Melbourne per ‘Orsova’ Aged 28 years Served in England & France Returned to Australia 18 August 1919 per ‘Norman’ Appointment Terminated 30 November 1919 Married William Gordon CUMMING in 1922 in Melbourne Died 06 December 1968 in Launceston, Tas. Buried Carr Villa Cemetery B 13 317.00 Site reg 13 www.awm.gov.au P09173.001 |
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TRAYHURN, Pearl Lottie
Sister
AANS No 1 Australian Hospital Ship 'Karoola' Born 29 August 1888 in Inverell, NSW Daughter of Edwin John TRAYHURN and Kezia Charlotte nee MADDY Of Bingara, NSW Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse Aged 29 years Enlisted 19 June 1915 Embarked 14 July 1915 Served on No 1 Hospital Ship 'Karoola' Returned to Australia 28 June 1919 per 'Karoola' Appointment terminated 20 October 1919 Married 14 December 1919 to Henry (Harry) Vernon JACKSON Died 10 April 1944 in Croydon Park Sydney, NSW Aged 58 years Buried Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, NSW www.awm.gov.au P01667.001 |
Sister Pearl Trayhurn, of Bingara, who graduated at the local hospital, and enlisted at an early stage of the war for active service abroad, returned to Bingara on Saturday last.
Daily Observer Satruday 19 July 1919 page 1
Daily Observer Satruday 19 July 1919 page 1
TREBILCO, Grace Darling
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born Grace Darling TREBILCOCK 1885 in Port Sorell, Tas. Daughter of William John TREBILCOCK and Henrietta nee DUKE Of Ulverstone, Tasmania Occupation prior to enlisting Nurse Trained 4 years Devon Hospital Tasmania Enlisted 24 April 1917 at Moore Park, NSW Embarked 9 May 1917 from Sydney per ‘Ulysses’ Aged 32 years Served in England & France Returned to Australia 22 August 1919 per ‘Prinz Hubertus’ Appointment Terminated 26 September 1919 Did not marry Died 25 May 1960 in Tas. Aged 75 years Buried Ulverstone Cemetery, General Section |
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TREBILCOCK, Edith Amy
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Staff Nurse
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve AANS – No1 Sea Transport Staff Born 17 January 1875 at Luton, England Daughter of John TREBILCOCK and Charlotte nee CROXFORD Sister of Elizabeth TREBILCOCK Educated Ballarat, Vic. Trained at Alfred Hospital Melbourne, 3 years August 1899 to October 1902 Private Nursing , Matron of Sir Samuel Hospital WA, and of Laverton Hospital, WA Enlisted QAIMNSR NOK Miss C TREBILCOCK Of 72 High Street, St. Kilda, Vic. Military Hospital, Ripon 'I resign because with my experience and ability I feel myself worthy of a better position than that of 'Staff Nurse' which I now occupy' Appointment terminated 22 October 1915 Returned to Australia Enlisted AANS 29 December 1916 Age 41 years Embarked 19 December 1916 in Sydney per “Orontes” for England Transport duties to Australia and return Ships “Themistocles” “Marathon” “ Suevic” “Borda” Appointment Terminated 05 February 1919 Re-enlisted 29 May 1919 as Sister for one “Special Service” trip to England per “Kursk” Resigned Appointment in England 07 August 1919 She is on a passenger list to Canada in 1920 and arrived in California same year. On 18 February 1921 she naturalised as a US Citizen in Los Angeles, USA. She died 29 January 1943 in Riverside, California under the name of Trebilco Photograph Weekly Times Saturday 19 June 1915 page 10 Read more here |
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Westralians at the Front
A W.A. NURSE WITH LADY DUDLEY'S HOSPITAL IN FRANCE- RHODES SCHOLAR BOOR ENLISTS FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
We have previously referred to the active part numbers of Westralian are playing in connection with the war, and this week we have two further interesting examples of this to chronicle. The first to hand is contained in a letter from Sister E. A. Trebilcock, late of this State, who has written of some of her experiences to Mrs. H. Bennett, of Mt. Lawley, that lady having very kindly made the communications available to our readers.
Sister Trebilcock, who has many friends in Perth, and is well known in metropolitan nursing circles, went to France with Lady Dudley's Voluntary Hospital for the care of the wounded soon after the commencement of war and has since been doing good work in that direction. With a few personal items deleted, here is Sister Trebilcock's account of her experiences as related in her letter to Mrs. Bennett, written from St. Nazaire, a French port on the Bay of Biscay at the mouth of the Loire:
"We left Southampton on August 38 for Havre, then the naval base, but the Germans were encroaching so much in that direction that we hurried from the hotel at which we were staying on to the Greta, the yacht Lord Dunraven had chartered for our expedition. Here we spent several uncomfortable days and nights, and were again landed in Havre, which was so crowded that a bed was an unknown quantity. And very thankful we were to get on board the Asturias, which brought us down here (St. Nazaire), to what, has since been the base. Lady Dudley took the best private hospital here, and opened it for officers only, and in a few days we had more patients than we could accommodate. Then we took over a large, school ad- joining as an annexe. Here we nurse the Tommies, accommodating ninety at a time and here it is we have done our best work. "In a month we handled 750 cases, and when I tell you that we are but seventeen nurses and our orderlies for the most part are untrained you can imagine something of our work. Many times we have been strained almost to the breaking point, but have managed to endure and do good work."It is different from ordinary hospital work. We hear when the trains with the wounded are expected in, and we are ready to receive them. The serious cases are immediately got to bed. Then we feed them all; after which they all have to be washed and their wounds dressed. We have received as many as 170 patients in a day, so you will see our task has not been an easy one. Their, wounds are often-filthy and sloughing, having in many cases been undressed for two and three days. We hear that many of the hospitals have a great deal of gangrene, but so far we have had none, though we have had tetanus (lockjaw), which is even worse. We have had seven deaths from it. . . . It is so awful and so hopeless. Here we see in a very small way some of the horrors of war. "Besides the hospital and annexe we have a camp, a postcard of which I will send you. ... One evening last week we attended a concert given by our people at the camp. It was a weird affair. A beautiful moonlight night, a waning camp fire, the inner circle composed of sisters and officers, beyond this hundreds of our British soldiers, and on the outskirts crowds of French people. Lady Dudley was sport enough to contribute to the programme. and we wound up the evening by having supper with the officers and afterwards motored home.
"Our home is in the corner of the main street, and we see all the soldiers march past-in one direction to the rest camp, after disembarking; in the other, to the front! They win one's respect, with their cheerfulness and grit. They are always singing as they march, their favourite songs being 'It's a long way to Tipperary' and 'Oh, you beautiful doll.' We see thousands and thousands of them pass. . . . Then when they return to us wounded and suffering, their cheerfulness one marvels at! Only here and there one meets with one who whines. "We have packed up here and have to quit St. Nazaire. Lady Dudley, has taken the Hotel Carlton in Paris, but latest news tells us we are not going there. We certainly hope to get nearer the front, but so far know nothing. When our orders come we shall get out speedily. . . .
Write me when you can, as we are allowed to receive any and all letters, the address being 'Australian Field Hospital, British Expeditionary Force.'"
Sunday Times Sunday 6 December 1914 page 14.
A W.A. NURSE WITH LADY DUDLEY'S HOSPITAL IN FRANCE- RHODES SCHOLAR BOOR ENLISTS FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
We have previously referred to the active part numbers of Westralian are playing in connection with the war, and this week we have two further interesting examples of this to chronicle. The first to hand is contained in a letter from Sister E. A. Trebilcock, late of this State, who has written of some of her experiences to Mrs. H. Bennett, of Mt. Lawley, that lady having very kindly made the communications available to our readers.
Sister Trebilcock, who has many friends in Perth, and is well known in metropolitan nursing circles, went to France with Lady Dudley's Voluntary Hospital for the care of the wounded soon after the commencement of war and has since been doing good work in that direction. With a few personal items deleted, here is Sister Trebilcock's account of her experiences as related in her letter to Mrs. Bennett, written from St. Nazaire, a French port on the Bay of Biscay at the mouth of the Loire:
"We left Southampton on August 38 for Havre, then the naval base, but the Germans were encroaching so much in that direction that we hurried from the hotel at which we were staying on to the Greta, the yacht Lord Dunraven had chartered for our expedition. Here we spent several uncomfortable days and nights, and were again landed in Havre, which was so crowded that a bed was an unknown quantity. And very thankful we were to get on board the Asturias, which brought us down here (St. Nazaire), to what, has since been the base. Lady Dudley took the best private hospital here, and opened it for officers only, and in a few days we had more patients than we could accommodate. Then we took over a large, school ad- joining as an annexe. Here we nurse the Tommies, accommodating ninety at a time and here it is we have done our best work. "In a month we handled 750 cases, and when I tell you that we are but seventeen nurses and our orderlies for the most part are untrained you can imagine something of our work. Many times we have been strained almost to the breaking point, but have managed to endure and do good work."It is different from ordinary hospital work. We hear when the trains with the wounded are expected in, and we are ready to receive them. The serious cases are immediately got to bed. Then we feed them all; after which they all have to be washed and their wounds dressed. We have received as many as 170 patients in a day, so you will see our task has not been an easy one. Their, wounds are often-filthy and sloughing, having in many cases been undressed for two and three days. We hear that many of the hospitals have a great deal of gangrene, but so far we have had none, though we have had tetanus (lockjaw), which is even worse. We have had seven deaths from it. . . . It is so awful and so hopeless. Here we see in a very small way some of the horrors of war. "Besides the hospital and annexe we have a camp, a postcard of which I will send you. ... One evening last week we attended a concert given by our people at the camp. It was a weird affair. A beautiful moonlight night, a waning camp fire, the inner circle composed of sisters and officers, beyond this hundreds of our British soldiers, and on the outskirts crowds of French people. Lady Dudley was sport enough to contribute to the programme. and we wound up the evening by having supper with the officers and afterwards motored home.
"Our home is in the corner of the main street, and we see all the soldiers march past-in one direction to the rest camp, after disembarking; in the other, to the front! They win one's respect, with their cheerfulness and grit. They are always singing as they march, their favourite songs being 'It's a long way to Tipperary' and 'Oh, you beautiful doll.' We see thousands and thousands of them pass. . . . Then when they return to us wounded and suffering, their cheerfulness one marvels at! Only here and there one meets with one who whines. "We have packed up here and have to quit St. Nazaire. Lady Dudley, has taken the Hotel Carlton in Paris, but latest news tells us we are not going there. We certainly hope to get nearer the front, but so far know nothing. When our orders come we shall get out speedily. . . .
Write me when you can, as we are allowed to receive any and all letters, the address being 'Australian Field Hospital, British Expeditionary Force.'"
Sunday Times Sunday 6 December 1914 page 14.
TRELOAR, Kathleen
Staff Nurse/Masseuse
AANS
Born 31 August 1892 at College Park, South Australia
Daughter of Charles Hextal & Lydia TRELOAR nee LATHLEAN
Of Tranmere, Magill, South Australia
Occupation prior to enlisiting Masseuse
Trained at Adelaide Hospital & Adelaide University
Enlisted 24 November 1917
Transferred to Queensland answer to call for Volunteers.
Married Frank Samuel Fisher MELTON in 1921 in Qld.
Died 1996
AANS
Born 31 August 1892 at College Park, South Australia
Daughter of Charles Hextal & Lydia TRELOAR nee LATHLEAN
Of Tranmere, Magill, South Australia
Occupation prior to enlisiting Masseuse
Trained at Adelaide Hospital & Adelaide University
Enlisted 24 November 1917
Transferred to Queensland answer to call for Volunteers.
Married Frank Samuel Fisher MELTON in 1921 in Qld.
Died 1996
TREMLETT, Lucy Martha
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Sister
AANS Born 30 January 1873 in Sheoak Log, near Gawler, SA Daughter of Daniel TREMLETT and Phoebe nee WREFORD Next of kin Flora Elizabeth NIEASS Of Edwardstown, SA Aged 43 years Enlisted 21 November 1914 Served on hospital ships Embarked 27 November 1914 per 'Kyarra' Returned to Australia 16 May 1916 per 'Kyarra' Embarked 19 August 1916 per 'Karoola' Returned to Australia 10 January 1917 per 'Karoola' Embarked 11 May 1917 per 'Benalla' from Melbourne Returned to Australia 09 November 1917 per 'Benalla' Appointment terminated 23 November 1917 Did not marry Died 12 June 1956 at Fullarton, SA Aged 82 years Resided Fullarton, SA Photograph - The Chronicle Saturday 19 May 1917 page 25 |
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ORDERLIES DOING FINE WORK NURSING SISTER'S APPEAL FOR THEIR RECOGNITION.
Mr. Arthur Glover, of Fremantle, has just received the following letter from Sister Lucy M. Tremlett, who is the nurse in charge of the Military Infectious Hospital at Choubrah, Cairo. The letter contains special appeal for hospital orderlies, and we commend it to the notice of ladles connected with Red Cross work. The letter goes on to say:— ''I am simply in charge, and by the time I do the rounds each day, manage a staff of 28 sisters, and from 30 to 35 orderlies, I have not much time to know the patients individually, excepting any one who may ask for me personally. Just at present we have from 260 to 270 men. I am getting all I want from the Red Cross, and a fair supply of cigarettes and tobacco once a fort-night, but am writing some of my friends who do Red Cross work to send me a box now and again, care of Red Cross, but addressed to me personally, to do what I like with it. For instance my orderlies are nice boys, and there are several W.A, boys among them. I like to be able to give them a couple of pairs of socks and a flannel shirt or two, or a handkerchief or two, or a packet of cigarettes, etc. There is so much red tape to be gone through when these little things come through the Quartermaster's stores. In plain English, have you any influence with the ladies round you? If so, could you induce them to send me a box of various things just for my staff? The Australians are sending all the nurses boxes of things for Christmas, but no one seems to think that our boys here are doing grand work with us in nursing the men, and we need them--everyone. No one has a right to say that the A.M.C. boys have cold feet. The men appreciate the work of these orderlies, for it is hard work, and plenty of drudgery. Many of my boys have been to the front, and come home wounded and sick. They then become orderlies, ready to learn, and do anything needed, for if a trained nursing orderly knows his work in the field hospitals where no sisters are allowed, what a blessing he is to his fellow men, for he can save them a lot of unnecessary pain, and probably some lives. Therefore, i think it worth while to train our orderlies the same as nurses, and treat them with due consideration, and by so doing we get the best work from them. Will you, as a thinking man, Just see what you can do?'
The Daily News Perth Wednesday 01 December 1915 page 5
Mr. Arthur Glover, of Fremantle, has just received the following letter from Sister Lucy M. Tremlett, who is the nurse in charge of the Military Infectious Hospital at Choubrah, Cairo. The letter contains special appeal for hospital orderlies, and we commend it to the notice of ladles connected with Red Cross work. The letter goes on to say:— ''I am simply in charge, and by the time I do the rounds each day, manage a staff of 28 sisters, and from 30 to 35 orderlies, I have not much time to know the patients individually, excepting any one who may ask for me personally. Just at present we have from 260 to 270 men. I am getting all I want from the Red Cross, and a fair supply of cigarettes and tobacco once a fort-night, but am writing some of my friends who do Red Cross work to send me a box now and again, care of Red Cross, but addressed to me personally, to do what I like with it. For instance my orderlies are nice boys, and there are several W.A, boys among them. I like to be able to give them a couple of pairs of socks and a flannel shirt or two, or a handkerchief or two, or a packet of cigarettes, etc. There is so much red tape to be gone through when these little things come through the Quartermaster's stores. In plain English, have you any influence with the ladies round you? If so, could you induce them to send me a box of various things just for my staff? The Australians are sending all the nurses boxes of things for Christmas, but no one seems to think that our boys here are doing grand work with us in nursing the men, and we need them--everyone. No one has a right to say that the A.M.C. boys have cold feet. The men appreciate the work of these orderlies, for it is hard work, and plenty of drudgery. Many of my boys have been to the front, and come home wounded and sick. They then become orderlies, ready to learn, and do anything needed, for if a trained nursing orderly knows his work in the field hospitals where no sisters are allowed, what a blessing he is to his fellow men, for he can save them a lot of unnecessary pain, and probably some lives. Therefore, i think it worth while to train our orderlies the same as nurses, and treat them with due consideration, and by so doing we get the best work from them. Will you, as a thinking man, Just see what you can do?'
The Daily News Perth Wednesday 01 December 1915 page 5
TRENAMAN, Elsie Maud
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Staff Nurse
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Reserve Service Born 28 January 1880 at Willowie, SA Daughter of Samuel Thomas TRENAMAN and Margaret nee HONEYMAN Of Saddleworth, South Australia Occupation prior to enlisting Nurse Trained at Adelaide Hospital Matron at Hutchinson Hospital, Gawler Enlisted 5 May 1915 Embarked 20 May 1915 per ‘Mooltan’ from Outer Harbour, SA Aged 35 years Duty at Bombay Presidency Hospital, Alexandria 08 September 1915 Embarked H S 'Gloucester' 07 May 1916 12 General Hospital 10 May 1917 30 General Hospital 10 June 1917 35 General Hospital 31 July 1917 61 CCS 09 November 1917 1 General Hospital 28 March 1918 20 CCS 14 April 1918 14 Stationary Hospital 23 November 1918 Posted to Kitcheners Hospital Brighton for temporary duty pending repatriation 22 May 1919 Returned to Australia 9 July 1919 per ‘Frederickshire’ Appointment terminated 14 August 1919 Matron at Lady Galway Clubhouse at Henley Beach, SA Awarded the King's Silver Jubilee Medal in May 1935 Did not marry Died 27 June 1954 at Adelaide, SA Aged 74 years Resided Unley, SA Buried North Road Anglican Cemetery, Nailsworth, SA |
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The Call of Duty.
FAREWELL TO SISTER TRENAMAN.
It was announced in our last issue that Sister E. H. Trenaman, matron of the Hutchison Hospital, was about to leave for England to join the R.A.M.C. for service in the field hospitals abroad. The board of the hospital gave her extended leave, and on Wednesday evening of last week they met in (the boardroom of that institution to say farewell to her and wish her a speedy return. In addition to the members ot the board the ministers of the town, as visitors in the hospital, were invited, and the Revs. T.Vigis, G. T. Arthur, M.A., G. K. Haslain, and Father McEvoy were present. Some outside friends of the matron were also present. The Chairman (Mr. Arthur South) said he knew that Sister Trenaman had no wish to leave Australia, but when she realised the urgent need of more and still more skilled Nurses, something within impelled her to sacrifice all other interests, and offer loyally to do her share in nursing the wounded and suffering in this awful and momentous war. She had orders to embark on Thursday of next week, and she had no knowledge of where her duties would lay, but wherever she would be located they earnestly hoped that she would retain sufficient health and strength to endure the pitiful sights resulting from modern warfare, and be the means of restating to health many a wounded soldier, as well as he a source of comfort to some who might be beyond human aid. They in Gawler had appreciated Sister Trenaman's work. As first matron of the hospital she had been a real help in the matter of furnishing and equipping. They had had the assurance of medical men in the town and specialists from the city that she was thoroughly efficient. The board bad been well satisfied with her successful management and tactful control of the staff and were hopeful that when hostilities were over she would resume her duties. They desired in saying goodbye to give her something tangible to carry with her and a token of their esteem, and as Chairman it was his privilege, by the direction of the committee, to ask her to accept a dressing case from them. They wished her good health and a safe return. Mr. S. B. Rundall, in supporting the Chairman, paid a fine tribute to the abilities of the matron as a careful and and most skilful manager. Whilst supplying every necessary comfort for the patients she bad at the same time been most careful in the avoidance of waste and extravagance. The great gifts seem to have been born in her. Dr. Tobin, representing the medical profession acknowledged the great help they had received from Sister Trenaman. A letter was received from Mr. E. H. Coombe, M.P., the first chairman of the board, in which he said he regretted not being able to be present to say a few words of appreciation end cheer to Sister Trenaman. She had justified her selection as matron completely, and had earned their warmest admiration and gratitude for the faithful and faithful way she bed carried out her duties. It would be painful to part from her even for a time, that she had been called to go to Europe was a compliment to her and an honor to the institution.
The Rev. Sydney Best wrote expressing regret st not being able to he present. He had no hesitation in saying that Sister Trenaman had endeared herself to staff and patients by her tactful and whole-hearted devotion to her important duties. As rector of St. George's Church he desired to say that she had net a fine example of churchmanship and her influence had been of great value. Sister Trenaman, in reply and acknowledgement of the present, spoke very feelingly, and said that she was very anxious to come back to Gawler. She had been very pleased with the treatment she had received, and looked upon Gawler as her home. At no other institution had she received more consideration, and she was thankful to the board for the way the members had studied her interests in connection with the hospital. The presentation dressing case was beautifully fitted up and on the outside was an inscription in silver, which read : — ' Presented to Sister E. N. Trenaman by the Board of Management of the Hutchinson Hospital, Gawler. May 12, 1915.' At the conclusion of the meeting Sister Mann invited those present to adjourn to the dining room, where coffee and sandwiches were served.
Bunyip Friday 21 May 1915 page 4
Miss E. M. Trenaman, who was on loan to the British during the war, is now matron of the Lady Galway Clubhouse at Henley Beach.
News Saturday 25 April 1936 page 3
FAREWELL TO SISTER TRENAMAN.
It was announced in our last issue that Sister E. H. Trenaman, matron of the Hutchison Hospital, was about to leave for England to join the R.A.M.C. for service in the field hospitals abroad. The board of the hospital gave her extended leave, and on Wednesday evening of last week they met in (the boardroom of that institution to say farewell to her and wish her a speedy return. In addition to the members ot the board the ministers of the town, as visitors in the hospital, were invited, and the Revs. T.Vigis, G. T. Arthur, M.A., G. K. Haslain, and Father McEvoy were present. Some outside friends of the matron were also present. The Chairman (Mr. Arthur South) said he knew that Sister Trenaman had no wish to leave Australia, but when she realised the urgent need of more and still more skilled Nurses, something within impelled her to sacrifice all other interests, and offer loyally to do her share in nursing the wounded and suffering in this awful and momentous war. She had orders to embark on Thursday of next week, and she had no knowledge of where her duties would lay, but wherever she would be located they earnestly hoped that she would retain sufficient health and strength to endure the pitiful sights resulting from modern warfare, and be the means of restating to health many a wounded soldier, as well as he a source of comfort to some who might be beyond human aid. They in Gawler had appreciated Sister Trenaman's work. As first matron of the hospital she had been a real help in the matter of furnishing and equipping. They had had the assurance of medical men in the town and specialists from the city that she was thoroughly efficient. The board bad been well satisfied with her successful management and tactful control of the staff and were hopeful that when hostilities were over she would resume her duties. They desired in saying goodbye to give her something tangible to carry with her and a token of their esteem, and as Chairman it was his privilege, by the direction of the committee, to ask her to accept a dressing case from them. They wished her good health and a safe return. Mr. S. B. Rundall, in supporting the Chairman, paid a fine tribute to the abilities of the matron as a careful and and most skilful manager. Whilst supplying every necessary comfort for the patients she bad at the same time been most careful in the avoidance of waste and extravagance. The great gifts seem to have been born in her. Dr. Tobin, representing the medical profession acknowledged the great help they had received from Sister Trenaman. A letter was received from Mr. E. H. Coombe, M.P., the first chairman of the board, in which he said he regretted not being able to be present to say a few words of appreciation end cheer to Sister Trenaman. She had justified her selection as matron completely, and had earned their warmest admiration and gratitude for the faithful and faithful way she bed carried out her duties. It would be painful to part from her even for a time, that she had been called to go to Europe was a compliment to her and an honor to the institution.
The Rev. Sydney Best wrote expressing regret st not being able to he present. He had no hesitation in saying that Sister Trenaman had endeared herself to staff and patients by her tactful and whole-hearted devotion to her important duties. As rector of St. George's Church he desired to say that she had net a fine example of churchmanship and her influence had been of great value. Sister Trenaman, in reply and acknowledgement of the present, spoke very feelingly, and said that she was very anxious to come back to Gawler. She had been very pleased with the treatment she had received, and looked upon Gawler as her home. At no other institution had she received more consideration, and she was thankful to the board for the way the members had studied her interests in connection with the hospital. The presentation dressing case was beautifully fitted up and on the outside was an inscription in silver, which read : — ' Presented to Sister E. N. Trenaman by the Board of Management of the Hutchinson Hospital, Gawler. May 12, 1915.' At the conclusion of the meeting Sister Mann invited those present to adjourn to the dining room, where coffee and sandwiches were served.
Bunyip Friday 21 May 1915 page 4
Miss E. M. Trenaman, who was on loan to the British during the war, is now matron of the Lady Galway Clubhouse at Henley Beach.
News Saturday 25 April 1936 page 3
TRESTRAIL, Evelyn Claire
Sister
AANS Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Born 10 December 1887 in Penwortham, SA Daughter of Henry TRESTRAIL and Constancy nee SMITH Joined QAIMNSR 18 October 1915 Next of kin listed as Mrs. Henry TRESTRAIL Of Hopkin Street, Boulder City, WA Member of St. Johns of Jerusalem and British Red Cross Trained at Wakefield St. General Hospital 1907 - March 1911 (Theatre Nurse) Private nursing from 1911 In Charge of 19 beds, Enteric Fever, at Wallaroo Hospital SA for 4 months in 1911 Temporary Matron Macley District Hospital Jan 0 May 1913 War Nursing in Belgium & France Sept 1914 - Sept 1915 Dr. Florence Stoney Scottish Women's Hospital Sept 1915 Transferred to France - American Ambulance, Paris France Resigned 18 October 1916 Resided 'Kelso', Mitchell Street, South Brisbane in December 1920 Married Sidney Percival SWAN Applied for divorce in Townsville Qld in 1944 on grounds of adultery Died 05 November 1960 in Sydney, NSW www.awm.gov.au Image no P08673.003 |
A NURSE IN FRANCE. An Adelaide Girl's Story.
A South Australian nurse, Miss Trestrail, at the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuille-sur-Seine, France, in a letter to a friend in Adelaide, thus describes the soldiers under her care;— 'I love the French men; they are the dearest things, but they are like children. Sometimes I wonder how grown men who have seen so much that is awful, who have done fearful things and suffered privation, cold, and pain, can eat and sleep, and laugh away the hours as if there was never, a war at all. I am sending a photograph of nine of my patients, a matron, and myself. The boy on the chair (Albert) is a darling. He is 20 yeans of age, and has been decorated for his bravery. He had a terribly broken leg, and it has been amputated above the knee. The one next to Mademoiselle (who is standing up) is his friend, and gave a pint of his own blood to the kid just before the amputation. The doctor took the blood from the arm of one with a little pump, and pumped it into the arm of the other. The colour came back to one face as it died from the other, and afterwards some of the high French officers came to congratulate the friend (Achilles) on his self-sacrifice. He simply answered, 'It has been my privilege, sirs.' The next patient, had no upper lip, and they did a plastic. They took flesh from either side and made a lip. Since then they have put some of the bottom lip on the edge, and he is a triumph. The three on crutches have had broken legs, and two of the other had bullets in the lungs. Now they are all well, and are going away soon. I shall hate to lose them, but their beds must be given to others. One of my men was rude to me the other morning, so the doctor spoke to him before all the other patients in the ward. When I came on at night he had learned to say, 'I am so sorry' in English: and when he said it in all seriousness, with his big brown eyes on my face, I almost hugged him. I love them all: they are good patients, but I love the Belgians better, because I am so sorry for them. It is terribly sad, and yet I know I shall hate nursing other people when this terrible war is over. Fancy trying to please some trying old lady that only has a nurse because she can afford it! It will be. 'Nurse, put some powder on my nose; 'Nurse, get me a little drop of brandy, one speck of sugar!' 'Nurse, please don' t laugh in my house;' 'I don't care for the colour of your hair,' and all those trivial little things which I hate.
—A French Battleground.--
I have just returned from Meaux, one limit of the German advance into France. We went by train, then we hired a trap and drove about 10 miles into the country, right through the battlefield and down into the Valley of the Marne where the famous victory was won. It seems sad that all the quaint, quiet little place was ever the scene of an awful battle. At pre sent it is covered with preen wheat; but all over the hills and fields are hundreds of little white wooden crosses. Some of them have the name and regiment of the soldier that died on the very spot, but often it is only a number. There are a few black crosses, and they bear the statement that one or six Germans, as the case may be, are buried beneath. Most of the German dead were cremated after the battle, and only a few individuals have received separate interment. We saw a little fruit garden in which 200 Germans had entrenched, but the English got in, and the Germans were killed, every one. God only knows how terrible it all is! We saw the little church and a tiny cemetery in which there is a long row of English graves. One is that of an officer, on which the French children put fresh flowers every Sunday. I cannot write all I thought as I looked out on the country that had been stained with blood.
—A Theatre Party —
'I must not omit to tell you about one day when I took 25 patients to a theatre in Paris. They came down to the hall in their different uniforms— infantry in red pants and blue or grey coats, artillery in blue with red stripes, African regiments in khaki, and Zouaves in baggy trousers, with their officers in pale blue. They were a queer lot, with their slings and bandages and crutches. We had two large motors, and off we set down the boulevards of Paris. They yelled to the people and threw kisses to the girls. When we arrived they all changed places about six times, and then they bought peppermints. Ugh! The play was hot all French plays are— but they enjoyed, to the best of their ability to understand it, all that every actor said I did not, but that did not matter. I wish you could have seen me out with 25 Frenchmen and a policeman. In Paris there are 1,000 hospitals and they are all full of Frenchmen and Belgian men, very few English. One of my patients was a Belgian soldier who is again at the front. His captain called for eight men to hold the line while the rest retreated, and he was one of the eight to face almost certain death, and one of the two who escaped. Both have been decorated with the Order of Chevalier of Leopold II., which is the same as a knighthood in England. The King presented the decoration, and be stowed the order, and my former patient is very proud, and so am I. I hope he lives to the end of the war. I long for peace
again, for the day when we may know that all the poor wretches are in from the trenches, and instead of being killed and maimed by the thousand, are on the way to their homes. I have been in one of the trenches after the soldiers had left it, of course-and know something of the life that must be lived in them.
—Paris in Crape --
'You cannot realize what it is in France. Every man from 18 to 45 is in uniform. All who can go must go, and whether a mother has a dozen sons or only one, all have to fight for France. The last of our patients from Belgium were almost suffo cated by those awful gas bombs. They say that all the men in the first row of trenches died. The French patients are such dear things. Many of them have never been looked after properly in all their lives before, and they love the 'Nurses Anglaise.' Paris is a picture; it is always the best city in the world. In the spring it is Paradise, and with all the 12 avenues that lead to one grand centre, lined with chestnut trees, it is a sight for the gods. If only the people were not in black! Here in France they never print their own list of dead, and if a wife loses her husband she only knows it because he has ceased to write to her. It seems as though all the women are in black and wear crepe. The closer the relative, the longer the veil. For a father or husband it reaches the hem of the skirt; and for a brother halfway down the skirt. It is gloomy, I tell you. They wear the mourn ing for about five years. The Australian nurses here are all trying to get positions at Malta or in Egypt; for although they love their French and Belgian patients, they are dying to have the privilege of nursing back to health some of their dear, big, strong, bronzed, and brave Australians.'
The Register Tuesday 14 September 1915 page 6.
A South Australian nurse, Miss Trestrail, at the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuille-sur-Seine, France, in a letter to a friend in Adelaide, thus describes the soldiers under her care;— 'I love the French men; they are the dearest things, but they are like children. Sometimes I wonder how grown men who have seen so much that is awful, who have done fearful things and suffered privation, cold, and pain, can eat and sleep, and laugh away the hours as if there was never, a war at all. I am sending a photograph of nine of my patients, a matron, and myself. The boy on the chair (Albert) is a darling. He is 20 yeans of age, and has been decorated for his bravery. He had a terribly broken leg, and it has been amputated above the knee. The one next to Mademoiselle (who is standing up) is his friend, and gave a pint of his own blood to the kid just before the amputation. The doctor took the blood from the arm of one with a little pump, and pumped it into the arm of the other. The colour came back to one face as it died from the other, and afterwards some of the high French officers came to congratulate the friend (Achilles) on his self-sacrifice. He simply answered, 'It has been my privilege, sirs.' The next patient, had no upper lip, and they did a plastic. They took flesh from either side and made a lip. Since then they have put some of the bottom lip on the edge, and he is a triumph. The three on crutches have had broken legs, and two of the other had bullets in the lungs. Now they are all well, and are going away soon. I shall hate to lose them, but their beds must be given to others. One of my men was rude to me the other morning, so the doctor spoke to him before all the other patients in the ward. When I came on at night he had learned to say, 'I am so sorry' in English: and when he said it in all seriousness, with his big brown eyes on my face, I almost hugged him. I love them all: they are good patients, but I love the Belgians better, because I am so sorry for them. It is terribly sad, and yet I know I shall hate nursing other people when this terrible war is over. Fancy trying to please some trying old lady that only has a nurse because she can afford it! It will be. 'Nurse, put some powder on my nose; 'Nurse, get me a little drop of brandy, one speck of sugar!' 'Nurse, please don' t laugh in my house;' 'I don't care for the colour of your hair,' and all those trivial little things which I hate.
—A French Battleground.--
I have just returned from Meaux, one limit of the German advance into France. We went by train, then we hired a trap and drove about 10 miles into the country, right through the battlefield and down into the Valley of the Marne where the famous victory was won. It seems sad that all the quaint, quiet little place was ever the scene of an awful battle. At pre sent it is covered with preen wheat; but all over the hills and fields are hundreds of little white wooden crosses. Some of them have the name and regiment of the soldier that died on the very spot, but often it is only a number. There are a few black crosses, and they bear the statement that one or six Germans, as the case may be, are buried beneath. Most of the German dead were cremated after the battle, and only a few individuals have received separate interment. We saw a little fruit garden in which 200 Germans had entrenched, but the English got in, and the Germans were killed, every one. God only knows how terrible it all is! We saw the little church and a tiny cemetery in which there is a long row of English graves. One is that of an officer, on which the French children put fresh flowers every Sunday. I cannot write all I thought as I looked out on the country that had been stained with blood.
—A Theatre Party —
'I must not omit to tell you about one day when I took 25 patients to a theatre in Paris. They came down to the hall in their different uniforms— infantry in red pants and blue or grey coats, artillery in blue with red stripes, African regiments in khaki, and Zouaves in baggy trousers, with their officers in pale blue. They were a queer lot, with their slings and bandages and crutches. We had two large motors, and off we set down the boulevards of Paris. They yelled to the people and threw kisses to the girls. When we arrived they all changed places about six times, and then they bought peppermints. Ugh! The play was hot all French plays are— but they enjoyed, to the best of their ability to understand it, all that every actor said I did not, but that did not matter. I wish you could have seen me out with 25 Frenchmen and a policeman. In Paris there are 1,000 hospitals and they are all full of Frenchmen and Belgian men, very few English. One of my patients was a Belgian soldier who is again at the front. His captain called for eight men to hold the line while the rest retreated, and he was one of the eight to face almost certain death, and one of the two who escaped. Both have been decorated with the Order of Chevalier of Leopold II., which is the same as a knighthood in England. The King presented the decoration, and be stowed the order, and my former patient is very proud, and so am I. I hope he lives to the end of the war. I long for peace
again, for the day when we may know that all the poor wretches are in from the trenches, and instead of being killed and maimed by the thousand, are on the way to their homes. I have been in one of the trenches after the soldiers had left it, of course-and know something of the life that must be lived in them.
—Paris in Crape --
'You cannot realize what it is in France. Every man from 18 to 45 is in uniform. All who can go must go, and whether a mother has a dozen sons or only one, all have to fight for France. The last of our patients from Belgium were almost suffo cated by those awful gas bombs. They say that all the men in the first row of trenches died. The French patients are such dear things. Many of them have never been looked after properly in all their lives before, and they love the 'Nurses Anglaise.' Paris is a picture; it is always the best city in the world. In the spring it is Paradise, and with all the 12 avenues that lead to one grand centre, lined with chestnut trees, it is a sight for the gods. If only the people were not in black! Here in France they never print their own list of dead, and if a wife loses her husband she only knows it because he has ceased to write to her. It seems as though all the women are in black and wear crepe. The closer the relative, the longer the veil. For a father or husband it reaches the hem of the skirt; and for a brother halfway down the skirt. It is gloomy, I tell you. They wear the mourn ing for about five years. The Australian nurses here are all trying to get positions at Malta or in Egypt; for although they love their French and Belgian patients, they are dying to have the privilege of nursing back to health some of their dear, big, strong, bronzed, and brave Australians.'
The Register Tuesday 14 September 1915 page 6.
TREYVAUD, Lilian Kirkland
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Staff Nurse
AANS Born 1890 in Geelong, Vic. Daughter of Henry Charles Hector TREYVAUD and Sarah nee HENDERSON Of Aberdeen St, Geelong, Victoria Occupation prior to enlisting Nurse Trained 3 years Geelong Hospital Enlisted 17 June 1915 Embarked 17 June 1915 Aged 25 years Resigned in England 14 October 1915 due to marriage Married Capt. George Edward COLE 19 August 1915 at the English Consualte and St. Andrews, Cairo Died 18 July 1975 in Geelong, Vic. Late of Breakwater, Vic. Photograph Table Talk Thursday 17 June 1915 page 3 |
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COLE TREYVAUD.- On the 19th August, at the English Consulate and St Andrews, Cairo, Captain George Edward Cole, medical officer to 24th Battalion. 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces, son of the late George Cole, of England and grandson of Mrs. John Booth, of "Caenwood" Tennyson street, St Kilda to Lilian Kirkland Treyvaud, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs. H. C. Treyvaud, of "Trevlyn," Aberdeen street, Geelong. (By cable.)
The Argus Wednesday 25 August 1915 page 1
The Argus Wednesday 25 August 1915 page 1
TRUMBLE, Lucy Mary
Matron
NZANS
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Born Mary Louisa TRUMBLE 27 March 1880 in Nerring, Vic.
Daughter of Henry TRUMBLE and Bridget nee MANIX
Commenced duty 03 December 1915
Served 209 days in New Zealand
Served 3 years 218 days Overseas in Egypt
Discharged 01 February 1920
She continued nursing in New Zealand after the war.
She died 5 November 1955 in Wellington, New Zealand (as Louisa Mary Trumble).
New Zealand cemetery records has her as Sister L M Trumble.
Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
NZANS
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Born Mary Louisa TRUMBLE 27 March 1880 in Nerring, Vic.
Daughter of Henry TRUMBLE and Bridget nee MANIX
Commenced duty 03 December 1915
Served 209 days in New Zealand
Served 3 years 218 days Overseas in Egypt
Discharged 01 February 1920
She continued nursing in New Zealand after the war.
She died 5 November 1955 in Wellington, New Zealand (as Louisa Mary Trumble).
New Zealand cemetery records has her as Sister L M Trumble.
Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
BENDIGO NURSE HONORED.
Nurse Lucy M. Trumble, formerly of Bendigo, has been awarded the Royal Red Cross (second class) for meritorious services in connection with the war. Nurse Trumble enlisted for service with the Red Cross in New Zealand, and left with a military unit early in the war, and is attached to No. 29 General Hospital, Cairo. Miss Trumble is a cousin of Mr. T. Trumble, Secretary of the Defence department.
Bendigonian Thursday 07 March 1918 page 8
Nurse Lucy M. Trumble, formerly of Bendigo, has been awarded the Royal Red Cross (second class) for meritorious services in connection with the war. Nurse Trumble enlisted for service with the Red Cross in New Zealand, and left with a military unit early in the war, and is attached to No. 29 General Hospital, Cairo. Miss Trumble is a cousin of Mr. T. Trumble, Secretary of the Defence department.
Bendigonian Thursday 07 March 1918 page 8
Bendigo Nurse Decorated
Miss Lucy Mary Trumble, a resident of Bendigo, has been awarded the Royal Red Cross (second class). She trained for the nursing profession In New Zealand, and left there with a military unit at the beginning f the war. At present she is attached to No.29 General Hospital, Cairo. Mr W. E. Trumble, of Beatty street, Toorak, recently received the following communication from the New Zealand Minister for Defence
I have much pleasure in informing you that Nurse Lucy Mary Trumble, of whom you are the nominated next-of-kin, has been appointed a member of the Royal Red Cross (2nd class) for meritorious services in connection with the war. Please accept my hearty congratulations on her having gained such acoveted distinction.
Miss Trumble is a cousin of Mr T. Trumble, Secretary for Defence, and has many friends in Victoria.
Weekly Times Melbourne Saturday 09 March 1918 page 8
Miss Lucy Mary Trumble, a resident of Bendigo, has been awarded the Royal Red Cross (second class). She trained for the nursing profession In New Zealand, and left there with a military unit at the beginning f the war. At present she is attached to No.29 General Hospital, Cairo. Mr W. E. Trumble, of Beatty street, Toorak, recently received the following communication from the New Zealand Minister for Defence
I have much pleasure in informing you that Nurse Lucy Mary Trumble, of whom you are the nominated next-of-kin, has been appointed a member of the Royal Red Cross (2nd class) for meritorious services in connection with the war. Please accept my hearty congratulations on her having gained such acoveted distinction.
Miss Trumble is a cousin of Mr T. Trumble, Secretary for Defence, and has many friends in Victoria.
Weekly Times Melbourne Saturday 09 March 1918 page 8
