By Jennifer Baker
 43 Australian Women gave their lives in WW1 while undertaking Humanitarian Aid
4 Deaths - Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD)
Louise (Louie) Blanche Riggall Lydia W F Grant Kathleen Adele Brennan Amy Maud Augusta Parrott 1Death - Civilian Nurses Hilda Grace Williams 3 Deaths - Merchant Navy - Stewardess Clara Louisa McMillan Edith Keighly Newton Jean Robertson 1 Death - Australian Munition Worker Rose Roseman 1 Death - Women's Royal Air Force Dora Ashley 26 Deaths - Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Ettie Barnett Louisa Annie Bicknell Emily Clare Ruby Dickinson Gertrude Agnes Grewar May Hennessy Hilda Mary Knox Irene McPhail Edith Ann Moorhouse Letita Gladys Moreton Norma Violet Mowbray Gertrude Evelyn Munro Lily Nugent Amy Veda O'Grady Rosa O'Kane Katherine Lawrence Porter Kathleen Power Edith Amelia REED
Doris Alice Ridgway Elizabeth Rothery Mary Florence Stafford Ada Mildred Thompson Fanny Isobel Catherine Tyson Jean Miles Walker ( Matron Jean Miles-Walker) Beatrice Middleton Watson Blodwyn Elizabeth Williams 1 Deaths – Hospital Ships - Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Edith Blake 7 Deaths - Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Myrtle Elizabeth Wilson Charlotte Berrie Florence Narrelle Jessie Hobbes May Dickson Agnes Beryl Corfield
Nellie M Saw
(Alice) Blanche Atikinson
Their Full details Louise (Louie) Blanche Riggall 
Died from a cerebral haemorrhage on 31st August 1918 Rouen France - died in France 7th Sept 1918 - buried St Sever Cemetery ( Grave/Memorial Reference: Officers, B. 3. 1. )- Mentioned in Despatches for her services with the British Red Cross (BRCS) Name is recorded on the Nurses Roll of Honour in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne & RSL Memorial Hall Maffra VAD – member Australian Red Cross Society - Served in Heliopolis and 1 AGH (Australian General Hospital ) at Rouen France Australian War Memorial file Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry RIGGALL, LOUISA
Lydia W F Grant Died 1 April 1917 - Cause of Death Measles turned Septic Arthritis - treated at Manchester 2nd Western General Hospital - Died in England on active Service
Died from measles turned to septic arthritis at (Ducie Avenue Military Hosp) Manchester 2nd West General Hospital, England on the 1st April 1917, age 37 (reg. Chorlton, Lancashire)
[Both brothers were sent for when she fell seriously ill and Chesborough was in attendance at her death] Buried in the Southern Cemetery, Manchester. The inscription on her (private) tombstone reads:
Lydia William Falconar Grant VAD. Member of the Brisbane Branch of the Red Cross Society of Australia. Born at Falcon Hall Morningside Edinburgh and died at Ducie Avenue Military Hospital Manchester on the 1st of April 1917. Elder daughter of Peter G Grant and Emily Grant of Brisbane Queensland. Her name is listed on memorial boards at the Territorial Army Centre in Stretford, and York Cathedral VAD – Nurse British Red Cross -BRCS VAD Australian Detachment Brisbane 2 aboard HMAT Osterley, on 23 September 1916
Red Cross Wounded and Missing - Lydia Grant
Australian War Memorial file Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry - no entry found Kathleen Adele Brennan  Died of influenza at Leicester, England on 24 November 1918.
BURIED Welford Road Cemetery, Leichester England ( cemetery details - BRENNAN, Nurse Kathleen Adele, Australian Army Nursing Service. 24.11.1918 - Grave/Memorial Reference: Screen Wall. O1. 198.)
VAD – member Australian Red Cross Society, left Australia for United Kingdom aboard HMAT Osterley, on 27 September 1916 Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry BRENNAN, K A
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/379209/BRENNAN,%20K%20A The Military funeral procession of Kathleen Adele Brennan, Australian Red Cross Society, member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Brennan died of influenza at Leicester, England on 24 November 1918 Australian war memorial photo - P05074.004 Amy Maud Augusta ParrottDied 24 October 1918
Age at Death 37 Cemetery or Memorial Details SOUTH AFRICA 53. Johannesburg (Brixton New) Cemetery. E.C. 2219 Family details: DAUGHTER OF COL & MRS T S PAROTT OF SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA VAD – Nurse Sister Unit Volunteer Aid Detachment British Red Cross -BRCS VAD - Service Allied Forces Born in Sidney. Educated at Lolaville Ladies College Raudwick. On taking up her abode in S Africa took up nursing & on the outbreakof the great war 1914 - 1918, enlisted with the S African troops as a nurse & went right through th War. On returning home an epidemic of pnemonic influenza broke out in Johannesburg. She at once offered her services, caught the dreaded disease & died in three days at the age of 29. She was accorded a Military funeral
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry PARROTT, AMY MAUD AUGUSTA
Hilda Grace Williams Died 4th January 1919
Cause of Death pneumonic influenza
Age at Death 25
Cemetery or Memorial Details Woodman's Point WA Rank
Unit
Service Civilian Volunteer Nurse
Conflict 1914-1918
photos courtesy of Woodman Point Quarantine Station
& Mr Earle Seubert Woodman Point Quarantine Station website dedication to her
Australian War Memorial search - no entry found Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry - no entry found Clara Louisa McMillan Died 26 June 1918 Cause of Death Killed by mine Age at Death 31 Cemetery or Memorial Details 39. Mercantile Marine Memorial, Tower Hill, London Rank Stewardess Unit SS Wimmera (Melbourne) Service Merchant Navy Conflict 1914-1918 Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry McMILLAN, CLARA LOUISA
Additional Information:Daughter of Mrs. Margaret McIlwraith, of 229, Bridport St., Albert Park, Australia. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3060306/McMILLAN,%20CLARA%20LOUISA Died 26 June 1918 Cause of Death Killed by mine Cemetery or Memorial Details 39. Mercantile Marine Memorial, Tower Hill, London Rank Assistant Saloon Stewardess Unit SS Wimmera (Melbourne) Service Merchant Navy Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry NEWTON, EDITH KEIGHLY
Jean RobertsonDied 26 June 1918 Cause of Death Killed by mine Cemetery or Memorial Details 39. Mercantile Marine Memorial, Tower Hill, London The Evening Post of the 28th June 1918 Rank 1st Class Stewardess Unit SS Wimmera (Melbourne) Service Merchant Navy reported “that among the passengers and crew there were many splendid instances of courage. Mrs Robertson, stewardess, cheerfully helped the women and children with the scanty clothing available, and in fitting lifebelts. Then she walked to the upper deck and stood by doing what she could till the steamer took her final plunge”. Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry Name Service Number Unit Conflict
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry ROBERTSON, JEAN
Rose Roseman![[IMAGE] North Sheen Cemetery - Roseman, Rose](http://twgpp.org/photos/19802/Roseman_R.jpg) Died 25 November 1918 Cemetery or Memorial Details SURREY 150. Fulham New Cemetery, North Sheen. FC. 306 Australian Munition Worker - Service No. B/539 note: it now thought that this could be a mistack in the name and could be infact Ross Roseman ) Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry ROSEMAN, ROSS
 Dora Ashley Died 4 November 1918
Cause of Death Died of pneumonia Age at Death 27 Cemetery or Memorial Details LONDON 8. Kensal Green (All Souls) Cemetery. 198. 19. 460933 Service Number 17663 Unit No 10 Motor Transport Repair Depot, Women's Royal Air Force Service Women's Royal Air Force Daughter of E. B. and Fanny Ashley of Woodlands Longwarry South Drouin Victoria Australia.
there was a mistack in the name which was picked up and fixed for Dora Ashley's headstone memorial
 Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry ASHLEY, DORA
Additional Information:Daughter of E. B. and Fanny Ashley, of Woodlands, Longwarry South, Drouin, Victoria, Australia. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2905563/ASHLEY,%20DORA Ettie BARNETT Died 1921
Cause of Death Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details - New Zealand On Nominal Roll Fate: Drowned ( no date or place given) Family give death as died 1921 in New Zealand Rank Staff Nurse / Masseuse Australian Army Nursing Service known as Mother Anzac by the Soldiers
Australian War Memorial search - no entry found Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry - no entry found
Louisa Annie BICKNELL![[IMAGE] Cairo War Memorial Cemetery - Bicknell, Louisa Annie](http://twgpp.org/photos/20707/Bicknell_LA.JPG) Cause of Death Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details EGYPT 9 Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Rank Staff Nurse Unit 1 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 6 and Special Reinforcements (February 1915 - April 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service Daughter of Mrs. Eliza Bicknell, of 205, Longridge St., Abbotsford
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=22257
WWI Memorial Plaque with "She Died.." awarded to Australian nurse Louisa Annie Bicknell. Extremely rare, the women's award is much rarer than the men's, the Memorial Plaque only awarded to 21 AANS Officers. [Louisa Annie Bicknell was born at Abbottsford, Vic and died on 25 June 1915 and is buried at Cairo, Egypt]. Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry BICKNELL, LOUISA ANNIE
Additional Information:Daughter of Mrs. Eliza Bicknell, of 205, Longridge St., Abbotsford, Victoria http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/112157/BICKNELL,%20LOUISA%20ANNIE Emily Clare Died 17 October 1918 Cause of Death Died of pneumonia Cemetery or Memorial Details INDIA 10 Deolali Government Cemetery / KIRKEE 1914-1918 MEMORIAL (India) Place Of Enlistment Stawell, VIC War Grave Register Notes CLARE, Sister Emily. Australian Army Nursing Service. Died of pneumonia 17th Oct., 1918. Age 28. Daughter of Peter and Mary Clare, of 34, Lynch St., Footscray, Victoria, Australia. M. 2. 22. Rank Sister Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Service Army Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry CLARE, EMILY
Additional Information:Daughter of Peter and Mary Clare, of 34, Lynch St., Footscray, Victoria, Australia. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1498814/CLARE,%20EMILY Ruby Dickinson Died 23 June 1918
Cause of Death: Pneumonia Cemetery or Memorial Details Middlesex 82 Harefield (St Mary) Churchyard Place Of Enlistment Sydney, NSW War Grave Register Notes Dickinson, Staff Nurse Ruby. Australian Army Nursing Service. 23rd June, 1918. Age 32. Daughter of William and Julia Dickinson, of Arizona, Almora St., Mosman, Queensland. Born at Forbes, New South Wales. Aust. Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service Service Army Headstone of Ruby Dickinson Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS)
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=78847 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry DICKINSON, RUBY
Additional Information:Daughter of William and Julia Dickinson, of "Arizona," Almora St., Mosman, Queensland. Born at Forbes, New South Wales. Died 24 May 1921
Buried Waverley General Cemetery, NSW Rank Staff Nurse Cause of Death: ? Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - 1 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 6 and Special Reinforcements (February 1915 - April 1916) Service Army Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry GREWAR, GERTRUDE AGNES
May Hennessy Died 9 Apr 1919 Cause of Death: Malaria Age 25 Cemetery or Memorial Details Bendigo VIC C of E H 1 24202 Next Of Kin Mrs Helen Hennessy, Mother Rank Staff Nurse Unit Unit Australian Army Nursing Service Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=134742 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry HENNESSY, MAY
Died 17 February 1917
Cause of Death Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details FRANCE 145 St Sever Cemetery Rouen War Grave Register Notes KNOX, Sister Hilda Mary. Australian Army Nursing Service. Died of sickness 17th Feb., 1917. Age 33. Daughter of James and Isabella Knox, of Benalla, Victoria, Australia. Officers, B. 4. 10. Rank Sister Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - 14 Australian General Hospital and Reinforcements (July 1916 - November 1917) Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=167859 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry KNOX, HILDA MARY
Additional Information:Daughter of James and Isabella Knox, of Benalla, Victoria, Australia. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/515321/KNOX,%20HILDA%20MARY Irene McPhailDied 4 August 1920Cemetery or Memorial Details Brighton VIC C of E Compt Z a 1689 Next Of Kin Mrs J MacNeece, Aunt Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Service Army Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry McPHAIL, IRENE
Edith Ann Moorhouse![[IMAGE] Lille Southern Cemetery - Moorhouse, Edith Ann](http://twgpp.org/photos/24910/Moorhouse_E%20(Large).JPG) Died 24 November 1918 Cause of Death Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details France 1027 Lille Southern Cemetery War Grave Register Notes Moorhouse, Sister Edith Ann. Australian Army Nursing Service. Died of sickness 24th Nov., 1918. Daughter of Frederick and Deborah Moorhouse. Born at Undera, Victoria, Australia. I. C. 25.
Rank Sister Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Unit 2 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 16 and Special Reinforcements (December 1914 - March 1916) Service Army Australian War Memorial file http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1050061--1-.pdf Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry MOORHOUSE, EDITH ANN
Additional Information:Daughter of Frederick and Deborah Moorhouse. Born at Undera, Victoria, Australia. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/278592/MOORHOUSE,%20EDITH%20ANN Letita Gladys MoretonDied 11 November 1916
Place of Death Quetta, India Cause of Death Enteric fever Cemetery or Memorial Details 43 Delhi Memorial India War Grave Register Notes MORETON, Sister Letittia Gladys. Australian Nursing Service, attd. Australian Gen. Hosp. No. 2. Died of enteric 11th Nov., 1916. Age 26. Daughter of Samuel Henry and Letetia Dexter Moreton. Born at Brim, Victoria, Australia. (Buried Quetta Govt. Cem. 209 Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Nursing Service attached Australian Gen Hosp No 2 Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=213649 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry MORETON, LETETIA GLADYS
Additional Information:Daughter of Samuel Henry and Letetia Dexter Moreton. Born at Brim, Victoria, Australia. (Buried Quetta Govt. Cem. 2092). http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1437569/MORETON,%20LETETIA%20GLADYS ![[IMAGE] Delhi Memorial (India Gate) - Moreton, Letetia Gladys](http://twgpp.org/photos/22424/Delhi%20Gate.JPG)
%20Feb2005%20landscape04.jpg) Norma Violet Mowbray![[IMAGE] Cairo War Memorial Cemetery - Mowbray, Norma Violet](http://twgpp.org/photos/20707/Mowbray_N.JPG) Died 21 January 1916
Cause of Death Pneumonia Cemetery or Memorial Details EGYPT 9 Cairo War Memorial Cemetery War Grave Register Notes MOWBRAY, Staff Nurse Norma Violet. Australian Army Nursing Service. Died of pneumonia 21st Jan., 1916. Age 32. Daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Barclay Mowbray, of Longville, Dickson St., Eagle Junction, Queensland. Born at St. George, Queensland. D. 271. Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Unit 1 Australian General Hospital (November 1914) Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=216491 Australian War Memorial file Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry MOWBRAY, NORMA VIOLET
Additional Information:Daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Barclay Mowbray, of Longville, Dickson St., Eagle Junction, Queensland. Born at St. George, Queensland.  Soldiers and nurses stand by some soldiers' graves in the Old Cairo Cemetery on the anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove. They came to lay wreaths and bouquets on the graves after attending a memorial service and marching through the city streets. In the foreground is the grave of Sister Norma Violet Mowbray, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), who died of pneumonia on 21 January 1916. Gertrude Evelyn Munro Cause of Death Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details GREECE 9 Mikra British Cemetery Salonika War Grave Register Notes MUNRO, Sister Gertrude Evelyn. Aust. Army Nursing Service. Died of sickness 10th Sept., 1918. Age 36. Daughter of Mr. A. B. and Mrs. E. P. Munro, of 5, Gillies St., Alfredton, Ballarat, Victoria Australia. 591. Rank Sister Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Service Army Greece. Sisters Gertrude Evelyn Munro and Amy Christie of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). The photograph was probably taken at the 60th British General Hospital, Salonica. Sister Munro died at Salonica on 10 October 1918 of pneumonia and malaria. Australian War Memorial file Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry MUNRO, GERTRUDE EVELYN
Additional Information:Daughter of Mr. A. B. and Mrs. E. P. Munro, of 5, Gillies St., Alfredton, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/341461/MUNRO,%20GERTRUDE%20EVELYN
![[IMAGE] Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria - Munro, Gertrude Evelyn](http://twgpp.org/photos/14600/Munro_G_E.jpg) Lily NugentDied 21 February 1918Place of Death Sydney Next Of Kin Michael Curtin, Step brother at Wagga Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service Service Army Conflict 1914-1918 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry NUGENT, LILY
Amy Veda O'Grady Date of Death 12 August 1916 Place of Death Bombay Cemetery or Memorial Details Sewree Bombay /KIRKEE 1914-1918 MEMORIAL Next Of Kin O'Grady, Brother at Preston VIC Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=227692 Australian War Memorial file Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry O'GRADY, AMY VEDA
Rosa O'Kane Died 21 December 1918 Place of Death Woodmans Point WA Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Service Army  photos courtesy of Woodman Point Quarantine Station
& Mr Earle Seubert & Ms. Donna Baldry Woodman Point Quarantine Station website dedication to her http://www.woodmanpointquarantinestation.com/rosa_okane.html
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry O'KANE, ROSA
Additional Information:Daughter of Mrs. J. E. O'Kane, of Charters Towers, Queensland. Died 16 July 1919
Place of Death NSW Cemetery or Memorial Details Waverley RC Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - 1 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 6 and Special Reinforcements (February 1915 - April 1916) Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=243821 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry PORTER, KATHERINE AGNES LAWRENCE
Kathleen PowerDied 13 August 1916
Age 28 Cause of Death Died of sickness Cholera Cemetery or Memorial Details INDIA 8 Bomboy (Sewri) Cemetery /KIRKEE 1914-1918 MEMORIAL Rank Staff Nurse - Nursing Sister Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Service Army Daughter of Michael and Johanna Power, of Garrygauge, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland
Australian War Memorial file Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry POWER, KATHLEEN
Additional Information:Daughter of Michael and Johanna Power, of Garrygauge, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland. ![[IMAGE] Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial - Power, Kathleen](http://twgpp.org/photos/30571/Kirkee%201914-1918%20Memorial%20(2).JPG) Edith Amelia REEDDied 4 Aug 1921 cause of death - post-discharge of tuberculosis Cemetery or Memorial Details - Path 25 South. Grave 5908, NORTH ROAD ANGLICAN CEMETERY, South Aust. Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Service Army The Register - Adelaide, SA Tuesday 9 August 1921 Page 8 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/63186722 A correspondent writes:— Keswick Mili-tary Hospital witnessed on Wednesday night last the passing of one of the heroines of the great war, in the person of Staff Nurse Edith N. Reed, A.N.S., A.I.F. The nurses were not in the public gaze as were the soldiers and sailors engaged in that world-shaking strife, but their patriotism and devotion to duty were worthy of being held in lasting remembrance, and many of them laid life itself on the altar of their country's service. Miss Reed was engaged in the Adelaide Hospital when the call came. She received a nurse's trainingin that institution, passing her examina-tion with honours and winning the goldmedal. She was accepted for military service in 1917,and sent to India to assist in the 31st Welsh Hospital at Deolali. In 1918 she was sent for a brief time to an Egyptian hospital, and then to England to the Australian General Hospital at Dart-ford. In May, 1919, she returned to Aus-tralia, and was appointed staff nurse atKeswick. In the end of the following yearthe complaint that ended a life full ofgoodness and with the promise of great usefulness, began to manifest itself. The doc-tors were long puzzled at the nature ofthe disease. Possibly the seeds of it weresown in the heat and filth of Indian cities.But it gradually sapped her intense energy,and although Sister Reed met it with themost stubborn will to live, she at lengthsuccumbed. Miss Reed's father was wellknown in Terowie as a successful businessman and a grazier. Her mother was amember of the well-known Jacka family.Both have joined the great majority. Herbrother William was a gunner in the artillery— 2nd Division of the Australian Army—and her brother-in-law, Mr. Whittle, ofPinnaroo (sergeant-major) was in the infantry, 48th Battalion. They enlisted earlyin 1915. Mr. Whittle was severely wounded and invalided home earlier but Mr.Reed completed his four years' of army service. One of her uncles is Sir Stanley Reed, editor of a leading Indian newspaper,and at his home in the hills the nurse was able to snatch an occasional much-needed furlough. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon at the North Road Cemetery,and was conducted with military honours. Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry REED, EDITH AMELIA
Doris Alice RidgwayDied 6 January 1919
Cemetery or Memorial Details Woodman's Point WA C of E 15 Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Service Army Newspaper -
Nurse Doris Ridgeway; aged 26; daughter of Mr and Mrs Ridgeway of Cooke's Plains, South Australia died of influenza on the 7 January 1919 at the quarantine station, Woodman's Point, Western Australia. She was buried will full military honours. Along with eleven other nurses she volunteered to go into quarantine to care for returning soldiers with pneumonic influenza. She made the supreme sacrifice.
photo courtesy of Woodman Point Quarantine Station
& Mr Earle Seubert
Woodman Point Quarantine Station website dedication to her http://www.woodmanpointquarantinestation.com/doris_ridgway.html Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry RIDGWAY, DORIS ALICE
Additional Information:Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ridgway, of Wolseley, South Australia. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/135690/RIDGWAY,%20DORIS%20ALICE Elizabeth RotheryDied 15 June 1918Place of Death Beechworth VIC Cemetery or Memorial Details Beechworth Vic C of E B 419 Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Unit AAMC ( Australian Army Medical Corps) Unit Hospital Transport Corps (May 1915 - September 1918) Ship Name HMAT Karoola - Ship number No 1 Hospital Ship Service Army Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry ROTHERY, ELIZABETH
Mary Florence Stafford ( May Florence Stafford )Died 20 March 1919Place of Death Torrens Park SA Cemetery or Memorial Details West Terrace Adelaide A I F Light Oval Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service – 1 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 6 and Special Reinforcements (February 1915 - April 1916) Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=285388 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Photos believed to be of Mary Florence Stafford burial at West Terrace AIF Cemetery    West terrace Cemetery - Establishment of Australia's first Dedicated Military burial Ground, The Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) OFFICIALLY Cemetery was opened in 1920 soon after peace was declared in the Great War 1914-1918. Dedicated exclusively for the burial of ex-service personnel this project was the first soldiers' burial ground in the Commonwealth. - Nurse Originally Strafford was buried in the Mitcham Cemetery, re-interned into the AIF section Newspaper article - OUR GARDEN OF MEMORY. ' _ An interesting aspect in connection with the Soldiers' Cemetery, Which has Been aptly termed 'Our garden of memory,' is the Fact That the Cemetery Trust has Been Able to Arrange for re-interments of the Remains of members of the AIF Buried Elsewhere into this cemetery.These of the first was the Removal of the re-mains of Nurse Stafford from the Mitcham Cemetery, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64121326 Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry STAFFORD, MARY FLORENCE
Ada Mildred Thompson Place of Death West Australia Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service – Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918) Service Army  photos courtesy of Woodman Point Quarantine Station & Mr Earle Seubert Woodman Point Quarantine Station website dedication to her
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry THOMPSON, ADA MILDRED
Fanny Isobel Catherine Tyson Died 20 April 1919 Cause of Death - Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details WILTSHIRE 167 Sutton Veny (St John) Churchyard Rank Sister Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - 1 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 6 and Special Reinforcements (February 1915 - April 1916) Service Army Daughter of John and Teresa Tyson, of 18, Blanche St., Elsternwick, Victoria. Born at Balranald, New South Wales.
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry TYSON, FANNY ISOBEL CATHERINE
Additional Information:Daughter of John and Teresa Tyson, of 18, Blanche St., Elsternwick, Victoria. Born at Balranald, New South Wales. Jean Miles Walker ( Matron Jean Miles-Walker)Age 39 Cause of Death Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details WILTSHIRE 167 Sutton Veny (St John) Churchyard Rank Nursing Sister - later promoted to Matron Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Unit 2 Australian General Hospital (November 1914) Service Army Conflict 1914-1918 Daughter of Alfred and Louisa Miles Walker, of "Allowah," Dunbarra Rd., Bellevue Hill, Sydney.
Born in Tasmania.
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=311028 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry WALKER, JEAN MILES
Additional Information:Daughter of Alfred and Louisa Miles Walker, of "Allowah," Dunbarra Rd., Bellevue Hill, Sydney. Born in Tasmania. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/406707/WALKER,%20JEAN%20MILES Beatrice Middleton WatsonDied 2 June 1916Age 34. Cause of Death Died of sickness Cemetery or Memorial Details EGYPT 8 Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery Rank Staff Nurse Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - 1 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 6 and Special Reinforcements (February 1915 - April 1916) - attached 1 Aust Stat Hosp Service Army B/W Photo: The original grave of Staff Nurse Beatrice Middleton Watson, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), of Elsternwick, Vic. Attached to No 1 Australian Stationary Hospital, she died of illness on 2 June 1916 and is buried in Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Daughter of William Galley Watson and Jane Ada Watson, of Middleton, Kooyong Rd., Elsternwick, Victoria. Born at Elsternwick.
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=315279 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry WATSON, BEATRICE MIDDLETON
Additional Information:Daughter of William Galley Watson and Jane Ada Watson, of Middleton, Kooyong Rd., Elsternwick, Victoria. Born at Elsternwick. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/111155/WATSON,%20BEATRICE%20MIDDLETON ![[IMAGE] Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery - Watson, Beatrice Middleton](http://twgpp.org/photos/25993/Watson_B%20(Large).JPG) Blodwyn Elizabeth Williams Place of Death Caulfield Unit Australian Army Nursing Service - Unit 2 Australian General Hospital - 1 to 16 and Special Reinforcements (December 1914 - March 1916) Service Army http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=324344 Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry WILLIAMS, BLODWYN ELIZABETH
Hospital Ships - Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - 1 DeathEdith Blake![[IMAGE] Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton - Blake, Edith](http://twgpp.org/photos/10073/HollybrookMem.jpg) Died 26 February 1918 Cause of Death Drowned at sea on the Glenart Castle Hospital ship Age at Death 32 Cemetery or Memorial Details 40. Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton Rank Staff Nurse Unit Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - Glenart Castle Hospital ship & a year to nursing German prisoners of war at Belmont, Surrey. Service British Army Edith Blake ( Blake St. Nurse: E., Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. killed on HS Glenart Castle - sunk 26/2/1918 ) Daughter of Charles and Catherine Blake, of 9, Vista St., Sans Souci, Sydney.
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry BLAKE, EDITH
Additional Information:Daughter of Charles and Catherine Blake, of 9, Vista St., Sans Souci, Sydney. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2894293/BLAKE,%20EDITH Died 23 December 1915
Cause of Death Died of pneumonia Age at Death 38 Cemetery or Memorial Details FRANCE Wimereux Communal Cemetery Rank Sister Unit Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Service British Army Headstone - Sister Myrtle Wilson Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Died on 23rd December 1915 aged 38 Daughter of Andrew Wilson and Catherine Wilson, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Left Queensland for Nursing Service, April 1915 Grave: III M 1
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry WILSON, MYRTLE ELIZABETH
Additional Information:Daughter of Andrew Stevens Wilson and Catherine Wilson, of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Left Queensland for Nursing Service, April, 1915. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/85406/WILSON,%20MYRTLE%20ELIZABETH Charlotte Berrie![[IMAGE] Jerusalem War Cemetery - Berrie, Charlotte](http://twgpp.org/photos/14520/Berrie_C.JPG) Died 8 January 1919 Age at Death 32 Cemetery or Memorial Details PALESTINE 3. Jerusalem War Cemetery. Q. 107 Rank Nursing Sister Unit Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Service British Army Sister of Mrs. Gladys M. Macgrega of 12 Brightmore St. Neutral Bay Sydney New South Wales.
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry BERRIE, CHARLOTTE
Additional Information:Sister of Mrs. Gladys M. Macgrega, of 12, Brightmore St., Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/646252/BERRIE,%20CHARLOTTE   Date of Death 10 May 1918
Cause of Death Died at sea Age at Death 37 Cemetery or Memorial Details BASRA MEMORIAL Iraq . Panel 43 Rank Sister Unit Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Service British Army Buried at sea 10/05/18 Aged 37 Panel 43. Daughter of the late J.F. and Margaret Hobbes.
Basra Memorial was originally erected in the city of Basra but was dismantled and re-erected in the Desert by Saddam Hussein's regime. The panels were poorly fitted and in some cases have now been destroyed. Many names are obscured by cement or damaged. Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry HOBBES, NARRELLE
Additional Information:Daughter of the late J.F. and Margaret Hobbes. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/866030/HOBBES,%20NARRELLE ![[IMAGE] Basra Memorial - Hobbes, Narrelle](http://twgpp.org/photos/31533/Basra%20Memorial.jpg) May Dickson Cause of Death Illness Age at Death 37 Place of Death Melbourne, Vic, Australia Cemetery or Memorial Details Coburg Cemetery, Vic, Australia Rank Sister Unit Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Service British Army Sister May Dickson, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), the first Australian woman to be buried in Australia with full military honours. Sister Dickson was a native of Australia and her education as a nurse began here. Not long after the war broke out she went to England and joined the QAIMNS. When her health broke down under strain, it was thought that the climate of her homeland might restore it. She was on her way home to Sydney, but when the vessel reached Melbourne she was so ill that it was necessary to take her ashore. Sister Dickson died of illness in Melbourne 4 October 1917 Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry - no entry found Agnes Beryl Corfield![[IMAGE] Alexandria (Chatby) Military And War Memorial Cemetery - Corfield, Agnes Beryl](http://twgpp.org/photos/21012/Corfield_AB.JPG) Died 2 February 1916,
Cause of Death Illness typhoid
Age at Death - Place of Death Alexandria
Cemetery or Memorial Details - Chatby Military cemetery, Alexandria
Rank Staff Nurse ,
Unit QAIMNS,
of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia,
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry CORFIELD, AGNES BERYL
Nellie M Saw![[IMAGE] Albany Public Cemetery (Old) - Saw, Nellie Mabel](http://twgpp.org/photos/28302/Saw_NM.JPG) Service number: R40618
Rank: Staff Nurse Unit: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Service: British Army Conflict: 1914-1918 Date of death: 31 March 1919 Place of death: Albany Hospital, Western Australia Cause of death: Illness (Tuberculosis) Cemetery or memorial details: Albany Public Cemetery (Old), Western Australia Source: AWM file Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry SAW, NELLIE
Place of death:Crafers, Sth Australia
Cause of death: Illness
Cemetery or memorial details:Stirling East Cemetery, SA (Now Stirling General Cemetery )
Source: Great War Forum
Newspaper -
Staff nurse Blanche Atkinson; eldest daughter of Mrs M. A. Atkinson and the late Mr F. J. Atkinson of Crafers; born at Crafers; served at the Adelaide Hospital and in Western Australia; went to England at the outbreak of war and joined the Royal British Nursing Association; on staff at the Brockenhurst Military Hospital when due to overwork became ill and was hospitalised. While in her hosptial bed the King decorated her with the Royal Red Cross for her "devotion to service"; once well enough to travel she was invalided back to Adelaide. From the effects of TB and physical and mental exhaustion she died 9 December 1916, Crafers; aged 38. Australian War Memorial search - no entry found Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry ATKINSON, BLANCHE
Additional Information:
N.B. Recent research has shown that Staff Nurse Atkinson is buried here. Staff Nurse Atkinson was awarded the ARRC. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75230039/ATKINSON,%20BLANCHE References:Just to put this list together it took 9 months of going thru theBritish Nursing Journals archive - http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk Commonwealth War Graves - http://www.cwgc.org/ Australian War memorial - www.awm.gov.au/ I have started a Facebook cause to help raise the awarness of these ladies Remember the Ladies as well as the Men – the forgotten Australian Women of WW1 http://apps.facebook.com/causes/397026/37613482?m=27597a89 Please join and help achieve this |
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