Dr Elsie Jean DALYELL OBE, MID*

DALYELL, Elsie Jean

Service Number: N/A
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Not yet discovered
Last Unit: Unspecified British Units
Born: Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 13 December 1881
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Sydney Girls High School and University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Pathologist / Bacteriologist
Died: Coronary Occlusion, Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia, 1 November 1948, aged 66 years
Cemetery: Privately Cremated
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World War 1 Service

2 May 1916: Involvement N/A, Unspecified British Units
3 Jun 1919: Discharged British Forces (All Conflicts), Unspecified British Units, Royal Army Medical Corps
Date unknown: Involvement Other Commonwealth Forces, N/A

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Biography contributed by VWM Australia

From Australian Dictionary of Biography - In 1916 she joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service unit at Royaumont, France, and afterwards enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Malta and Salonika, Greece. Early in 1919 she went to Constantinople to deal with cholera, and in June was appointed O.B.E.; she had been twice mentioned in dispatches.