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LUND, Melene Dare
Personal Details
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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| 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 |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 28 Aug 1917: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sydney, NSW | |
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| 16 Nov 1917: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Canberra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 16 Nov 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), SS Canberra, Sydney |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography 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).
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