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LEAKE, Nellie
Personal Details
Service Number: | AANS |
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Enlisted: | 26 April 1915, Place of enlistment - Sydney |
Last Rank: | Sister |
Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
Born: | Orange, New South Wales, 4 September 1882 |
Home Town: | Orange, Orange Municipality, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Trained at Sydney Hospital 1905 to 1909 and was appointed as a Sister at Callan Park Hospital in 1910. |
Occupation: | Trained Nurse |
Died: | Kew, Melbourne Victoria, 22 July 1958, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
Memorials: | Orange Holy Trinity Anglican Church Honour Board, Orange WW1 Honour Board |
Service History
World War 1 Service
26 Apr 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Place of enlistment - Sydney | |
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15 May 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked on RMS Mooltan from Sydney on 15th May 1915. | |
27 Jan 1916: |
Transferred
Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Service record not clear, Nurse Leake would have arrived in Egypt sometime in July 1915. Information states she served with 3rd Australian General Hospital at Mudros. Service record shows her returning to Alexandria on 27th January 1916. |
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1 Jan 1917: | Honoured Royal Red Cross (2nd Class), 'Distinguished services rendered during the period of General A. J. Murray's Command of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force' | |
11 Apr 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Proceeded to France on Londonderry from Southampton on 11th April 1917 to join British Expeditionary Force. | |
5 May 1917: | Promoted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
7 May 1917: |
Transferred
Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), |
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19 Jul 1917: |
Transferred
Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), |
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13 Apr 1919: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked for return to Australia on SS Wyreema from England on 13th April 1919, disembarking Sydney on 5th June 1919 | |
2 Aug 1919: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Daughter of Elizabeth LEAKE of Anson Street, Orange New South Wales.
After her discharge Leake continued her nursing career as a civilian, rising to the rank of Matron. On 17 May 1949 she was awarded the Imperial Service Medal for her work as Matron in the NSW Public Health Department.