Melene Dare LUND

LUND, Melene Dare

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 28 August 1917, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
Born: Tamworth, NSW, 1887
Home Town: Carroll, Gunnedah, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Penrith, NSW, 4 March 1964, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Sydney Hospital Staff of Active Service Honor Roll
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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Daughter of Thomas Francis LUND and Eliza Christina nee PORTER

Before signing up to go to the war, she was a theatre sister in the operating theatre of the old Sydney Hospital.

Married Thomas Gerald George FAHEY in 1919
​Melene and Thomas met in Egypt during the war, she was a nurse, and he spent time in hospital there, they had a "military" wedding In Gunnedah when they returned to Australia (her parents lived at Carroll, near Gunnedah).