Amy Hollway MATHEWS

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MATHEWS, Amy Hollway

Service Number:	Sister
Enlisted:	14 July 1915, Staff Nurse
Last Rank:	Not yet discovered
Last Unit:	Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
Born:	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, February 1883
Home Town:	Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Trained Nurse
Died:	Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia, 2 November 1971, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Bush Land Sec 6
Memorials:	Tighe's Hill Public School HR, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

14 Jul 1915:	Involvement 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
14 Jul 1915:	Embarked 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, HMAT Orsova, Sydney
14 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse
23 Jul 1919:	Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Was promoted to Sister 1/10/1918

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

After the war, Amy Mathews married Fred Hooton in Sydney in 1919. Fred was a dental surgeon who enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1915. He embarked on No 1 Australian Hospital Ship in 1915 – Amy’s ship – and it is hard to escape the conclusion that this is where he met Amy. A wartime romance! In 1919 Amy provided an account of her war service as part of the research for the official medical history of Australia’s involvement in the War.

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