Mary (Molly) WILSON

WILSON, Mary

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 17 June 1915
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: 1st Australian General Hospital
Born: Whroo, Vic., 1883
Home Town: East Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: 3 October 1956, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Boronia Wall C Niche 102
Memorials: Goulburn Weir War Memorial, Mooroopna District Hospital Staff & Trainees Pictorial Honour Roll, Mooroopna War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

17 Jun 1915: Involvement 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
17 Jun 1915: Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
17 Jun 1915: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of William James WILSON and Ellen nee SMITH Of Whroo, Vic.

Mary had trained at the Mooroopna Hospital, Vic.

She embarked 12 June 1917 per 'Mooltan' from Melbourne, Vic. and dDisembarked at Suez 19 July 1917.   She then embarked for Salonika per 'Gordon' from Port Said 25 July 1917
Proceeded overseas for France ex Southwell Gardens Hospital  05 March 1918.
Mary was granted leave from 18 March 1919 to 25 July 1919 with pay and subs to attend Domestic Course attending National School of Cookery at Buckingham Palace Rd., London'
She returned to Australia 08 October 1919 per 'Anchises' and was discharged as medically unfit 01 April 1920.
Mary did not marry.

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