Margaret (Maggie ) DOLAN

DOLAN, Margaret

    Service Number: AANS
    Enlisted: 28 November 1916, Place of enlistment - Melbourne, Victoria
    Last Rank: Staff Nurse
    Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
    Born: Tower Hill, Koroit Victoria, 1877
    Home Town: Koroit, Moyne, Victoria
    Schooling: Koroit, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation: Nurse
    Died: Terang, Victoria Australia , 16 April 1942, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Tower Hill (Koroit) Civil Cemetery, Victoria
    Memorials: Terang & District Nurses Memorial, Terang War Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    28 Nov 1916: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Place of enlistment - Melbourne, Victoria
    6 Dec 1916: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked on HMAT 'A67' Orsova from Melbourne on 6th December 1916, disembarking Plymouth, England on 17th February 1917.
    28 Feb 1917: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Proceeded to France.
    2 Mar 1917: Transferred Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1),
  • 2nd March 1917 - posted to 11th General Hospital, Rouen France
  • 31st May 1917 - posted to 26th General Hospital, France
  • 15th July 1917 - posted to 3rd Australian General Hospital, France
  • 3rd February 1918 - on leave, rejoining unit on 20th February 1918
  • 31st March 1918 - posted (temporarily) to 25th General Hospital, Boulogue France
  • 19th May 1918 - on leave, rejoining unit on 27th May 1918
  • 29th May 1918 - posted to 5th Stationary Hospital, France
  • 6th October 1918 - posted to 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall Middlesex England
  • 25th October 1918 - posted to 1st Australian General Hospital, Sutton Veny
  • 13th December 1918 - admitted to Southwell Gardens Hospital with influenza. Discharged on on 1st January 1919 and granted leave until 9th January 1919.
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    12 Mar 1919: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked fro return to Australia on HMT Kashmir from England on 12th March 1919, disembarking Melbourne on 20th April 1919.
    23 Oct 1919: Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)

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    Biography contributed by Leisa Lees

    Daughter of John and Mary Ann (nee TOBIN) DOLAN, next of kin Elizabeth Jane DITTY (sister).

    After returing home Margaret joined the Australian Bush Nursing Association, in 1929-30 she was posted to Lightning Ridge NSW 

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