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A.I.F. NURSE
WELL known in Albury and Allan's Flat districts, Sister Jean Crameri has been accepted as a nurse for the A.I.F. and appointed to the 9th A.G.H.  Sister Crameri trained at the Colac District Hospital and later at the Melbourne Women's Hospital and Truby King, Sydney, and for the last six years  has been senior ward sister at the Women's Hospital. Sister Crameri spent leave with Mr. and Mrs. T. Nevin, "Coolamurt," Wodonga.

Jean was accepted for three years training as a nurse at Colac Hospital. Her first appointment as a trained nurse was at Daylesford Hospital. Her lifelong association with the Royal Women's Hospital started when she signed up for a nine-month stint as a student midwife in 1935.

Jean enlisted in the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service in July 1940. She served in the Middle East during 1941 and in January 1942 the unit sailed to Java, but with the fall of Singapore in February they returned to Australia. In August 1942 the 2/9th Australian General Hospital was relocated to Port Moresby, where Jean worked with wounded and very ill soldiers under trying conditions.

Two years later she returned to Australia and served in Tamworth, New South Wales. In May 1945 she again moved with the unit to Moratai. During her six years of service, she had attained the rank of Captain.

[Source: Colac Family History Project/WW2 Honour Roll]