HOLLYWOOD, Sheilagh Rose
| Service Numbers: | N272414, NX76424 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Medical Women's Service |
| Born: | West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia, 8 August 1913 |
| Home Town: | West Maitland, Maitland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Dominican Convent, Moss Vale, Australia |
| Occupation: | Domestic Duties |
| Died: | Natural causes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 7 September 1981, aged 68 years |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Cremated |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N272414, General Hospitals - WW2 | |
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| 24 Sep 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N272414, General Hospitals - WW2 | |
| 25 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX76424 |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Aug 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Australian Army Medical Women's Service |
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World War 2 Service
| 3 May 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, NX76424 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
A member of Maitland's Hollywood medical family - her father was a doctor, her maternal grandfather was a doctor, her brother was a doctor and her brother-in-law was a doctor. Born in 1913, Sheilagh Hollywood was the eldest of three children (two daughters and a son) of Dr James Joseph Hollywood and his wife Adele (nee Power).
Her father migrated to Australia from Ireland in 1908 and soon after joined the practice of Dr William Dudley Power at Maitland, New South Wales. In 1912, following Power's death, Hollywood took over the medical practice and married Power's daughter. With the outbreak of World War I Dr Hollywood served with the Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt during 1915-16.
Sheilagh Hollywood's mother died from infuenza during the Spanish 'flu pandemic in 1919 and in 1922 James Hollywood married his sister-in-law, Molly Power.
Attending the Dominican Convent, Moss Vale (along with her younger sister Moira) following a period at the Maitland convent, Sheilagh Hollywood excelled in music and drama. She also had a strong interest in equestrian sport, particularly polo.
Joining the Voluntary Aid Detachment as a member, she enlisted in June 1941 and was assigned to the 113th Australian General Hospital (Concord). Three months later she transferred to the Australian Army Womens' Medical Service and embarked the hospital ship Wanganella in October 1941 for duties as a nursing orderly at Columbo.
Returning to Australia in January 1943, Sheilagh Hollywood was promoted to Lance Corporal during the following August, before being discharged on compassionate grounds in May 1944.
Her brother, Captain Thomas Desmond Hollywood (1916-1979) served as a medico with the 2nd/32nd Battalion, whilst her sister Moira's husband Dr Kevin Matthew McNamee, was part of the Australian Army Medical Corps in Tarakan and at Balikpapan.
In 1951 Sheilagh Hollywood married Major Keith Andrew James Gategood in Sydney. Gatewood, a wholesale agent and merchant, had an extensive military career dating from 1927. He was a member of the reformed 55th battalion and later rose to the rank of Captain in the Militia. Gategood served with the 2nd/12th Battalion during World War II, was twice wounded, mentioned in despatches and in 1947 was second in command of the transport of Australian reinforcements in HMAS Westralia in support of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. They were to have one child, a son.
Sheilagh Rose (Hollywood) Gategood died in Sydney in 1981; her husband having predeceased her in 1975.
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