Stella Emily DAVIS

DAVIS, Stella Emily

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 20 March 1915
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: 1st Australian General Hospital
Born: Cootamundra, NSW, 1887
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Natural Causes, 24 January 1987, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales
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World War 1 Service

20 Mar 1915: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
13 Apr 1915: Involvement 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
13 Apr 1915: Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of William and Isabella DAVIS

Embarking 13 April 1915, she served briefly in France and England and was sick to Hospital frequently – General Debility, Mumps and Neuralgia.
Stella resigned appointment in UK 02 March 1917 due to marriage and married Major Gerald George HOGAN 1st Div. Artillery AIF 1917 in England.
They lived in Rabaul New Guinea  where her husband was a Crown Law Officer.  Her husband was killed when the Japanese prison ship Montevideo Maru was torpedoed of the coast of Luzon 1 July 1942.  
She died 24 January 1987
​Aged 99 years

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