Photos of VADs on the RMS Osterley on 27 Sept 1916

Post date: 23-Feb-2018 01:56:07

Photos of VADs on the RMS Osterley on 27 Sept 1916

Sue Wragg has very kindly sent me these photos and and the following email about her grandmother Doris Susan Margaret Marshall & the VADs who travelled on RMS Osterley on 27 Sept 1916

I have found the following newspaper report on them

Hi Jenny,

I was excited to discover your page about VADs etc and thought you might like some further entries.

My grandmother, Doris Susan Margaret Marshall is listed on the British Red Cross site. Her service in the UK was brief but she continued to work with long term injured soldiers, particularly those suffering from shell shock at a private hospital run by a family member after her return and marriage.

There are several references to her group of trainees in Trove, as it was the first group to do service overseas and was under vice-regal patronage!

Vice Regal: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tuesday 26 September 1916 p 6 Article

Red Cross Society: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Wednesday 6 September 1916 p 7 Article

Red Cross Nurses: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 23 September 1916 p 8 Article

Women’s Realm: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Friday 1 September 1916 p 8 Detailed Lists, Results, Guides

Jessie Bage, who you have on your list was in the group, as was Kath Black who became Doris’s sister-in -law when she married Lt. Col. Norman Marshall, a highly decorated Australia officer. The attached photos (Doris is the one alone on the top right) seem to have been taken on their voyage on the “Osterley” to the UK, but unfortunately they are not labelled. Somewhere I have a labelled group photo I can send you if you’re interested (when I find it).

Kirsty Harris has a Facebook page called “Australian Nurses in World War 1” you may be interested in.

Cheers,

Sue Wragg