Pearl Stella (Pearley) GOODMAN

GOODMAN, Pearl Stella

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 12 November 1916, Orange, NSW
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
Born: Orange, New South Wales, Australia, 1886
Home Town: Enoggera, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Pneumonia and tuberculosis, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 6 March 1919
Cemetery: Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales
Zone F Independent E 0297
Memorials: Cairns Cenotaph, Millthorpe Public School Honor Roll, Orange WW1 Honour Board, Queensland Australian Army Nursing Service Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

12 Nov 1916: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Orange, NSW
29 Dec 1916: Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
29 Dec 1916: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), HMAT Themistocles, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Death of Nurse Goodman.
Advice has reached Cairns of the death of Nurse Goodman, who was Acting Matron of the local hospital after the departure of Matron McDonnell up to the time of her own departure on active service. She contracted pneumonia, which develepod into consumption, and her death took place in a Sydney hospital, where she had been for some considerable time.

News has come to hand of the death from tuberculosis of Staff Nurse Pearl Goodman, of Millthorpe, who was at the front for a period of three years. Deceased was 32 years of age, and a favorite in her profession for which she was trained at the Orange Hospital. Two of her brothers, Privates Howard and Spencer Goodman, have not yet returned from active service.

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