WOOD, Blanche Eleanor
| Service Number: | Sister |
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| Enlisted: | 11 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Fremantle, WA, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nursing Sister |
| Died: | WA, 17 February 1954, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Remains Scattered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Dec 1916: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 18 Dec 1916: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: SS Kaiser-i-Hind embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 18 Dec 1916: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), SS Kaiser-i-Hind, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Herbert Hampton WOOD and Gertrude nee WALTER
Of 35 Lilley St, Fremantle, WA
Married Sergeant David Gordon Mitchell on 13 September 1919 in WA
Her son Geoffrey Gordon was a Flying Officer RAAF in WW2 and was killed in flying battle in 1942.
Resided Rivervale, WA
Marriages
MITCHELL-WOOD.-On September 13, 1919, at St. Paul's Church, Beaconsfield, Western Australia, by the Rev. F. T. Bowen, Sergeant David Gordon Mitchell (7th Light Horse Regiment) to Sister Blanche Eleanor Wood (5th Australian General Hospital, Egypt). Sydney morning papers please copy.
Western Mail Perth 2nd October 1919 page 26