Annie Alexander VAD

Post date: 24-Feb-2015 04:35:28

Annie Alexander VAD

Ron Heffernan of the Mount Rouse and District Historical Society Inc. have done a beautiful tribute page on Anne Alexander and her family which can be found at their website

https://sites.google.com/site/penshurst1855/penshurst-woman-at-war----part-4

Annie Alexander VAD

David Archer from Toronto send me this lovely photo of Annie Alexander and the newspaper clip on her death in 1918 in Scotland.

Today by email - Thank you very much David

I have managed to find some photos of the cemetery on the The Scottish War Memorials Project to add with her entry.

I found that there was No Commonwealth war graves Entry or Australian War Memorial entry for her .

Annie's details & photos below have been added into the WW1 Australian Women Deaths page and the VAD Page

This now takes the number of known Australian Women who died in WW1 to 45

Annie Alexander

Died 10 Nov 1918

Age at Death 33

Cemetery or Memorial Detail - Broughton Glenholm Cemetery, Scotland

VAD – Nurse Sister

No Commonwealth war graves Entry

No AWM entry

Information and photos from David Archer

supplied by email to Jenny on 24 Feb 2015

Photos of cemetery from the The Scottish War Memorials Project

Additional information from Heather Ford - Thank you Heather

She was the youngest of 6 children born to Jane Hodgkinson HUTTON & James ALEXANDER (Grazier) who married at Cheviot Hills, Penshurst, Vic in 1866

James died at Geelong 2 years after her birth, and his property Burn Brae Estate, Mount Rouse, Penshurst was sold off. Jane died in the UK in May 1892. So Annie was an orphan at 7.