PATON, Florence Elizabeth
| Service Number: | AANS |
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| Enlisted: | 11 May 1917, Place of enlistment - Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Wiiliamstown, Melbourne Victoria, 18 March 1879 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Forbes, New South Wales, 1 April 1958, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1917: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Place of enlistment - Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 12 Jun 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked on RMS Mooltan from Melbourne on 12th June 1917, disembarking Suez, Egypt on 19th July 1917. | |
| 12 Aug 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked for Salonika, Greece from Alexandria, Egypt on 12th August 1917, disembarking 14th August 1917. | |
| 15 Feb 1919: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Disembarked at Southampton, England from Salonika, Greece on 15th February 1919 and posted to A.I.F. Headquarters London. | |
| 7 Nov 1919: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked for return to Australia on nursing duties on HMAT 'A74' Marathon from England on 7th November 1919, disembarking Sydney on 1st January 1920. | |
| 31 Jan 1920: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Daughter of John Campbell (about 1853 - 14th June 1896) and Harriet Jane (nee KNOWLES) (1852 - 15th May 1913) PATON - married on 21st April 1875.
Married Keith Hamilton HASTINGS (Lieutenant WW1) on 29th January 1923.
Siblings -
- John Hunter PATON (1876 - 1877)
- Adelaide Morris PATON (1877 - 15th January 1921) married Henry J. MILLAR
- Sidney Paton (1878 - 16th November 1878)
- Victor Albert PATON (1881 - 22nd May 1950) married Julia Edith HARVEY (about 1883) on 30th December 1908
- Harold Ernest Edward Paton (1883 - 2nd December 1883)
- Harriet Agnes Alice PATON (1884 - 1st February 1974) married Hubert Stanley TEBBUTT (1880 - 8th June 1960) on 3rd October 1908.
Nursing History (excluding WW1)
Nursed at Prince Henry (The Coast) Hospital in Sydney from 1898 until 1901 and in 1903 was Matron at Mungindi Hospital in Queensland. In 1913, Florence was nursing in Stanmore, New South Wales at Braeside Private Hospital. After returning to Australia at the conclusion of World War 1, she continued nursing and in 1922 was Matron at Icasia Private Hospital in Sydney.
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