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Daughter of Rev. William JEFFRIES and Mercy nee WIBNER
Of Methodist Parsonage, Woodville, SA

Married (aged 41 years) 30 August 1923 at Methodist Church, Kent Town to Albert Arthur BRICE (aged 61 years)

Awarded Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 15 September 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1372, position 5
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 6840, position 2
"Charge work at this Unit. Recommended for the conscientious tactful manner in which she performed her duties whilst in charge of this Unit, & also for good service since 1914"

Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
'In recognition of her valuable services with the Armies in France and Flanders'
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 29
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1951, position 2

Sister Elsie Jeffries has been honoured with the Royal Red Cross amongst other Australian nurses at home. Sister Jeffries is a daughter of Rev. Wm. Jeffries, formerly Methodist minister in Warwick.

Warwick Examiner and Times Saturday 03 March 1917 page 4

TWO HONOURS IN ONE FAMILY.

Sister E. W. Jeffries, whose name appears in the above list, is the second daughter of Chaplain the Rev. William Jeffries, of the Woodville Methodist Church. The family is represented at the front by two of its members and both have now received honours in recognition of valuable services; if or Surgeon-Major L.W. Jeffries (a brother of Sister Jeffries) was last October awarded the D.S.O.Sister Jeffries was trained at the Adelaide Children's Hospital, and thence went to the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, where she took a special certificate in gynecology and midwifery, and afterwards she took a special certificate at the Hospital for Infections Diseases, Melbourne. She was on the staff of both those institutions, and later served on th staffs of Dr. Bird's private hospital and of the Launceston Public Hospital. She went with the 1st Australian Hospital from Melbourne in November, 1914, was nursing for a year in Egypt, then for eight month's on a hospital ship (in the course of which she was present at the evacuation of Gallipoli) ; and now she is senior staff sister in the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield, England.

The Register Saturday 24 February 1917 page 9