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– Looking for the Evidence By Jennifer Baker ( Jenny Baker )
– Looking for the Evidence By Jennifer Baker ( Jenny Baker )
Australian Women who gave their lives in WW1
Australian Women who gave their lives in WW1
Research Disclaimer : Please note that This Research was done many years ago now :
so the information contained may now be out of date , photos gone missing or web links broken
My apologises : But It has become an impossible task to try and keep it up to date - Jenny
Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) - 4 Deaths
Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) - 4 Deaths
Louise (Louie) Blanche Riggall
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
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1051534--1-.pdf
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
NameService NumberUnitConflict
Unknown unit
1914-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry
RIGGALL, LOUISA
Rank: Member
Date of Death: 31/08/1918
Regiment/Service: Australian Red Cross Society
Grave Reference Officers, B. 3. 1.
Cemetery ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75197956/RIGGALL,%20LOUISA
Lydia W F Grant
Lydia W F Grant
Lydia William Falconar Grant
Photo sourced from IWM © IWM WWC H2-108
Southern Cemetery, Manchester.
Photo sourced from WW1 AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS & NURSES WHO REST IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Lydia William Falconer-Grant, Voluntary Aid Detachments.
Died of illness contracted on duty.
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
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1063221--1-.pdf
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll entry
Name Grant, L W P
Service Number
Unit Unknown unit
Conflict 1914-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry - no entry found
Cairns, Queensland WWI Cenotaph, now located on the Esplanade.
Kathleen Adele Brennan
Kathleen Adele Brennan
Informal portrait of Kathleen Adele Brennan, Australian Red Cross Society, member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment which left Australia for United Kingdom aboard HMAT Osterley, on 27 September 1916, in a VAD outdoor uniform. The uniform includes dark blue skirt and jacket, bonnet like cap, white shirt and black tie, black stockings and black lace up shoes. Brennan died of influenza at Leicester, England on 24 November 1918.
Informal portrait of Kathleen Adele Brennan, Australian Red Cross Society, member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment which left Australia for United Kingdom aboard HMAT Osterley, on 27 September 1916, shown wearing a VAD ward uniform. Brennan died of influenza at Leicester, England on 24 November 1918.
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
NameService NumberUnitConflict
Australian Army Nursing Service
1914-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry
BRENNAN, K A
Rank: Nurse
Date of Death: 24/11/1918
Regiment/Service: Australian Army Nursing Service
Grave Reference Screen Wall. O1. 198.
Cemetery LEICESTER (WELFORD ROAD) CEMETERY
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
Mr and Mrs A T Sharp visiting the graves of seven Australians at the Welford Road Cemetery, Leichester, including the grave of Kathleen Adele Brennan, Australian Red Cross Society, member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment.
Amy Maud Augusta Parrott
Amy Maud Augusta Parrott
Photo sourced from S.A. War Grave Project
Died 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 Sydney. Educated at Lolaville Ladies College Randwick. On taking up her abode in S Africa took up nursing & on the out break of the great war 1914 - 1918, enlisted with the S African troops as a nurse & went right through the War. On returning home an epidemic of pneumonic 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
Name Parrott, Amy Maud Augusta
Service
Number
Unit Volunteer Aid Detachment
Conflict 1914-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry
PARROTT, AMY MAUD AUGUSTA
Rank: Sister
Date of Death: 24/10/1918
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Voluntary Aid Detachment
Grave Reference E.C. 2219.
Cemetery
JOHANNESBURG (BRIXTON) CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/126440/PARROTT,%20AMY%20MAUD%20AUGUSTA
Annie Alexander
Annie Alexander
Information and photos from David Archer
supplied by email to Jenny on 24 Feb 2015
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
Tweeddale World War 1 Roll on Honour Book 2 pages 294
Tweeddale World War 1 Roll on Honour Book 2 pages 295
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.
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
Broughton Glenholm Cemetery, Scotland
Photos of cemetery from the The Scottish War Memorials Project
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