BLAKE, Lorna Mary
| Service Number: | V505224 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 January 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Balranald, New South Wales, Australia, 9 April 1922 |
| Home Town: | Balranald, Balranald, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Balranald Central School,New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Home Duties |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 December 1977, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Balranald Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V505224 | |
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| 15 Dec 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V505224 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Lorna Mary Blake (Service No:V505224), younger of the two siblings (Ronald and Lorna) who served in WWII, enlisted in the Australian Army Women's Medical Service (AAWMS) as a Private on 4 January 1943 - graded Nursing Orderly - and was attached to 107 and 108 Australian General Hospitals. Private Blake was serving with the Australian Army Women's Service (AAWS) at Hampton Convalescent Depot at Discharge on 15 December 1944.
Sissy was born in Balranald, New South Wales in 1922, second of four children of Herbert (Dick) Lawrence Blake (b1898 in Landsborough via Stawell, Victoria) and Mary Funcke (b1896 at Rhymney Reef, Victoria). Dick and Mary married in Stawell in 1919, and moved to Balranald in New South Wales in the early 1920s. Dick worked as a Shearing Contractor, was a Justice of the Peace, and from the late 1930s was Licensee/Publican of the Royal Hotel in Balranald. In the early 1950s, daughter Lorna and her husband took over as Licensees of the hotel.
Sissy lived in Balranald before enlisting in the Army in 1943, and was in Melbourne in 1946 when she married Francis (Dick) George Andrews (b 1917 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Dick was a Private (Service Nos:V38464/VX105923) in the Army. Sissy and Dick lived in Melbourne, where Dick was a Slaughterman, before settling in Balranald in the early 1950s. Sissy and Dick were Licensees of the Hotel, and also as well ran the Telephone Exhange and were the local Mail Contractors. Sissy died in 1977, and Dick died in 1987.
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