Ethel Tracey RICHARDSON RRC

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RICHARDSON, Ethel Tracey

Service Number:	Nurse
Enlisted:	28 November 1914, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Sister
Last Unit:	1st Australian General Hospital
Born:	South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1872
Home Town:	Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Nurse
Died:	Malvern East, Victoria, Australia, 8 November 1942, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Plot Church of England, Compartment R, Section 15, Grave 31
Memorials:	Sunbury War Memorial

World War 1 Service

28 Nov 1914:	Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Melbourne, Victoria
5 Dec 1914:	Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, 1st Australian General Hospital, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
5 Dec 1914:	Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Kyarra, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...Matron Ethel Tracey Richardson, Australian Army Nursing Service. A nurse from Toorak, Vic prior to enlistment, Matron Richardson embarked as a Sister with 1st Australian General Hospital from Melbourne on 5 November 1914. Later serving at Queen Mary's Military Hospital in London, she returned to Australia on 22 April 1916 to take up the appointment as Matron-in-Chief on the staff of the Director-General Medical Services and was awarded the Royal Red Cross Decoration, 1st Class. Her brother, Captain Henry Tracey Richardson also served in the AIF." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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