Gertrude GIDDINGS

GIDDINGS, Gertrude

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 7 June 1917, Keswick, SA
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
Born: Adelaide, SA, 25 September 1886
Home Town: Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Glenelg, SA, 30 September 1941, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: St Judes Cemetery, Brighton, South Australia
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Memorials: Glenelg and District WW1 & WW2 Honour Board, Keswick South Australian Army Nurses Roll of Honor
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World War 1 Service

7 Jun 1917: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Keswick, SA
14 Jun 1917: Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
14 Jun 1917: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), RMS Mooltan, Adelaide

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of William GIDDINGS and Mary Ann nee COTTINGHAM

Trained at North Adelaide Private Hospital

Did not marry

RETURN OF A GLENELG ARMY
SISTER.
By the Anchises, which reached the Outer Harbour on Sunday week. Sister Gertrude Giddings, A.A.N.S., returned to Glenelg. Sister Giddings has
been absent from Australia for something like two years and a half. The greater portion of that time she spent in Salonika, where, with other Australian nurses, she was attached to the British forces. She also spent a short time in Cairo, and was nursing at the military hospital at Dartford, England, prior to her return to Australia. During her furlough in England she found time to visit Scotland and Ireland, and obtained permission to go to France, where she paid a visit to the battlefields of that country and Belgium, and also ran down to Cologne, where she called on several friends who were serving with the army of occupation. Needless to say, she is delighted to be once more in her Glenelg home.

Glenelg Guardian Thursday 16 October 1919 page 1

REST HOME AT THE SEASIDE.
For a long time medical men have the want of an up-to-date. Nursing and Rest Home at the seaside. Outside hotels and boarding houses it has been practically impossible to find accommodation for patients convalescing after operations, etc., but no trouble in this direction should be experienced in the future, as Sisters Giddings and Solly have just established such a home at Glenelg. It is located at Farrell Street, New Glenelg, and the situation is an ideal one, being within a couple of hundred yards of the beach. The Sisters, both of whom served long periods with the A.I.F., recently purchased the fine residence that formerly belonged to Mrs. R. J. Matheson, and converted it to its present use. It contains some 15 rooms, is picturesquely set amidst a wealth of shade trees, and trim, well-kept lawns, and possesses all conveniences in the way of hot-water service, gas, electric light, etc. A perfectly lighted operating theatre has been fitted up, and the appointments generally leave nothing to be desired. Being just off the Mall, where the traffic at times is somewhat considerable, absolute quiet is assured, a great desideratum where nerve
patients are concerned, and the close proximity to the sea makes the home an ideal one for convalescents for whom either sea air or sea bathing is essential. "The Critic" wishes the Sisters every success in their venture.

Critic Wednesday 11 January 1922 page 19

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