HARTIGAN, Joan Marcia
| Other Name: | BATHURST, Joan Marcia - Married Name |
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| Service Number: | NX147143 |
| Enlisted: | 25 January 1943, Sydney. NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Camp Hospitals WW2 |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 6 June 1912 |
| Home Town: | Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Loretto College |
| Occupation: | Home Duties |
| Died: | Natural Causes, New South Wales, Australia, 31 August 2000, aged 88 years |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Fountain Court 2 Gdn 18 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 25 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX147143, Camp Hospitals WW2, Sydney. NSW | |
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| 1 Sep 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX147143 |
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Joan Marcia Hartigan (1912–2000) was one of Australia’s finest early tennis champions, a player whose power, athleticism, and international success placed her among the world’s elite during the 1930s.
Born in Sydney on 6 June 1912, she was the second daughter of Thomas Joseph Hartigan, a rising New South Wales railways official who would later become Railways Commissioner, and Imelda Josephine Hartigan (née Boylson), a schoolteacher whose strong Catholic educational values shaped her children’s upbringing.
During the Second World War, Joan served briefly in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service in 1943, working in a Sydney camp hospital before being discharged later that year.
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