Esther Wynne (Winnie) (Winnie) KING

KING, Esther Wynne (Winnie)

    Service Number: AANS
    Enlisted: 20 March 1915
    Last Rank: Sister
    Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
    Born: Glebe, Sydney New South Wales, 6 June 1888
    Home Town: Orange, Orange Municipality, New South Wales
    Schooling: Trained at Prince Alfred Hospital
    Occupation: Nurse
    Died: Brighton, Victoria, 5 August 1980, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
    Garden of No Distant Place
    Memorials: Orange Holy Trinity Anglican Church Honour Board, Orange WW1 Honour Board
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    World War 1 Service

    20 Mar 1915: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
    13 Apr 1915: Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney
    3 Jan 1916: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked for return to Australia doing nursing duties on HMAT 'A38' Ulysses from Suez, Egypt on 3rd January 1916.
    7 Jul 1916: Transferred Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1),
  • 7th July 1916 - returned to Cairo, Egypt
  • 19th July 1916 - returned to England from Cairo (no exact details provided on this and the previous voyage from service record)
  • 19th July 1916 - posted to Netley Hospital
  • 13th August 1916 - admitted to hospital, Southall for operation on her throat and was discharged on 28th November 1916
  • 20th January 1917 - posted to 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall
  • 21st March 1917 till 4th April 1917 - granted leave
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    4 Apr 1917: Promoted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
    26 Apr 1917: Transferred Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1),
  • 26th April 1917 - posted to 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital
  • 8th January 1918 - posted to 2nd Australian General Hospital, France
  • 24th May 1918 - transferred to England for transport duty to Australia
  • 27th May 1918 - posted to 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall pending transport duty
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    6 Jun 1918: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), transport duty to Australia
    9 Nov 1918: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked on SS Wiltshire from Sydney on 9th November 1918, disembarking Bombay, India on 3rd December 1918.
    4 Dec 1918: Transferred Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1),
  • 4th December 1918 - posted to Station Hospital, Trimmulgherry Deccan
  • 14th July 1919 - posted to 19th British General Hospital, Rawalpindi Gharial
  • 17th July 1919 - admitted to hospital, discharged on 25th July 1919 and granted 14 days leave
  • 10th August 1919 - posted to 18th British General Hospital, Kuldana
  • 16th September 1919 - granted 16 days leave
  • 8th October 1919 - posted to 18th British General Hospital, Gharial
  • 15th October 1919 - transferred to Bombay for embarkation
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    17 Nov 1919: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked for return to Australia on SS Dilwarra on 17th November 1919, changing vessels in Singapore. SS Charon left Singapore on 10th December 1919, disembarking Fremantle on 21st December 1919 and then travel to Sydney.
    4 May 1920: Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)

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    Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

    Daughter of Henry James and Lydia Knapp (nee WHITFIELD) KING.

    Married Thomas Page COOK in 1920, Thomas was born in Bendigo, Victoria on 8th September 1892 and died on 11th May 1967 in Bendigo.

    Two children

    • Geoffrey Page COOK (died in 2014)
    • Winifred Mary Page COOK (died 9th May 1989)

    Sister of

    • Whitfield (Whitty) KING
    • Philip Henry KING
    • Lydia margaret KING
    • George Frederick KING
    • AANS Lydia Kate KING - Australian Army Nursing Service, returned to Australia
    • Harold James King
    • Wilfred James KING and
    • Emily Florence KING
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