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LAYCOCK, Olive Isabel
Personal Details
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Hospital Transport Corps |
| Born: | Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, 5 January 1893 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Horsham, Victoria, Australia, 12 May 1972, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Nhill Cemetery, Victoria Plot Methodist, 97, Grave 1 Olive Isabel Dahlenburg |
| Memorials: | Bendigo Base Hospital Roll of Honour, Eaglehawk St Peter's Honour Roll |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jan 1918: | Involvement Sea Transport Staff, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
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| 28 Jan 1918: | Embarked Sea Transport Staff, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
| 17 Sep 1918: | Involvement Hospital Transport Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: No 2 Hospital Ship public_note: '' | |
| 17 Sep 1918: | Embarked Hospital Transport Corps, HMAT Kanowna, Sydney |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sandra Barry
Olive was the daughter of Annie Jones and Harry Rowley Laycock.
Olive enlisted as a Staff Nurse with the Australian Army Nursing Service on 6.1.1918 and embarked in Sydney on 28.1.1918 per "Themistocles". Transport duty England to Australia June 1918 per "Suevic". Return to England September 1918 per Kanowna". Returned to Australia per "Kanowna" and was Discharged on 13.7.1919. Medals: British War Medal and Victory Medal. (Information provided by Australian Nurses in World War 1).
In 1926 Olive married Oswald Welsgott Dahlenburg.