Ellen Ebert BUTTERLEY

Ellen Ebert BUTTERLEY

Surname: BUTTERLEY Christian Names: Ellen Ebert

Date & Place of Birth: 20th January, 1886, Penneshaw (died 1971 – cremated)

Service Number: AANS

Service Unit: AANS (14th AGH Abbassia) (#9 Sea transport staff)

Date & Place of Enlistment: 11th December, 1916, Perth, aged 30

Profession prior to Enlistment: Nursing Sister

Date of Return to Aust. & Date of Discharge: discharged 1st January, 1918, re-entered & embarked

5th June, 1918, Discharged 13th December, 1918 (Perth).


Next of Kin (NOK) Address

Father: James/John Butterley (1843 -1910)

Mother: Rachael Josephine Seymour, nee Ebert (1854 - 1923) and is buried in the Penneshaw Cemetery

Other: Married 1920 to James Lendrum Douglas (1896 – 1970)

Daughter Jean Lendrum Douglas (1925 – 2007)

Service

Egypt: Yes

Other: England AAH Southall

Campaign Medals: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Rank: Staff Nurse

Penneshaw Honour Board Yes

KI Connection: Born Kangaroo Island

BUTTERLEY, Ellen Ebert

Staff Nurse

EMBARKATION: 18/12/1916 Kaiser-i-Hind

UNITS: 14th AGH, 9 Sea Tspt Sect, 2 AAH

THEATRES: Egypt, England

RTA: 15/09/1918 Awara

DIED: 22/11/1971

BURIED: Cremated Karrakatta Cemetery (H.L.Downe Memorial Garden)

NOTES: Born 20/1/1886 Hog Bay, Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, SA - daughter of James & Josephine (nee Ebert). Trained Fremantle Public Hosp (3yrs). ATNA. Enl Fremantle, WA. RTA 12/11/1917 on Wiltshire on duty. Re-emb 5/6/1918 on Orontes - UK 11/8/1918. Marr James Lendrum DOUGLAS 1920 Katanning, WA. [James: b.c1896 Canada, Mechanic - WW1: L/Cpl 4255 (MM), 1st MG Bn - d.2/3/1970, Sth Perth, age 74]. Died Perth WA, age 85

Item details for: MT1486/1, BUTTERLEY/ELLEN EBERT

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First World War Embarkation Rolls

Rank: Staff Nurse

Roll title: Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918)

Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918

Date of embarkation: 18 December 1916

Place of embarkation: Fremantle

Ship embarked on: SS Kaiser-i-Hind

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