MILLER (NOBLE), Elsie Millicent
| Service Number: | Sister |
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| Enlisted: | 14 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Sea Transport Staff |
| Born: | Avon, Vic., 26 March 1888 |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nursing Sister |
| Died: | Cambridge, England, 8 October 1979, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Borough of Sebastopol Honour Board, Waurn Ponds Shire of South Barwon Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Dec 1914: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 14 Oct 1918: | Involvement Sea Transport Staff, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Wyreema embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 14 Oct 1918: | Embarked Sea Transport Staff, SS Wyreema, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Alexander MILLER and Margaret Jane nee BORLASE of Ballarat, Vic. Her mother was a school teacher.
Elsie trained for 3 years at the Maryborough Hospital, Vic.
21 July 1915 - The Ballarat Courier -A letter has been received by Mrs Miller, sister of the Mayoress of Sebastopol, from her daughter who is a nurse stationed at Heliopolis. She states that she in on night duty, which is preferable to the terrific heat of tile day. Sister Miller says: "I am in charge of 100 beds in the No. 1 G.E.H., which has altogether 3000 beds, and needless to say all are filled and we are kept fully employed. We get a good number of Imperial troops as well as our very own dear boys. Naturally we like to have our own. The home troops are no doubt good soldiers, well disciplined etc. but thy have not the actual pluck and spirit of our boys. Last night (13th June) for instance, two trains of wounded came in. I admitted 84 in my ward alone. Poor wounded things! An Imperial was asked, 'Well how were things on the peninsular when you left? 'Oh, very bad, Miss.' was the reply. To an Australian: ' How are we getting on over yonder? 'Pretty good, Sister. Giving them beans too, and we must get back soon! Just the difference in spirt. Our boys fight like devils. So do the others, perhaps, but our boys to a man are simply bloodthirsty to return. Dear kids, 19, 20 and no on: faces shattered, hands gone. etc.; all want to go back. 'We can't go back to the trenches.' They observe, but we could do despatch work or be in the Quartermasters' store.' The sorrow of it all seems more or less to numb our brains, and we are not surprised at anything."
As she was born in Sebastopol and the honour of having the first tree planted in Birdwood Avenue was accorded to Sister Miller in 1917.
Elsie married Ralph Athelstane NOBLE on 02 January 1929 at St Alban's Church of England, Leura, NSW. The ceremony was performed by his father
The couple appears to have left for England in 1958 - Ralph passed away prior to Elsie in Cambridge England on 18 March, 1965.
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