MCLELLAN, Lillian Mary
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 14 June 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 1 February 1893 |
| Home Town: | Camberwell, Boroondara, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Port Fairy State School, Victoria, Australia and Mount Gambier High School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Kew, Victoria, Australia, 13 September 1960, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria CE-233-0019 Lillian Mary Woodgate |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Port Fairy School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jun 1917: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 30 Jun 1917: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Somali embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 30 Jun 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), RMS Somali, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
Lillian Mary McLellan was born on 1 February 1893 at Prahran, Victoria. Her father, David Esler McLellan, a storekeeper of Crouch Street, Mount Gambier, enrolled her at Mount Gambier High School in December 1906. She left the school on 16 September 1907, when the family left the district (1). She completed her nursing training at Port Fairy Public Hospital in Victoria, and enlisted on 14 June 1917, naming her father David McLellan of Riversdale Road, Camberwell, Victoria, as her next of kin.
She embarked from Melbourne on the RMS ‘Somali’ on 30 June 1917, disembarked at Bombay on 30 July and was posted to Deccan War Hospital, Poona, where she worked until being transferred to the Station Hospital, Belgaum, on 9 December 1917. She was promoted to Sister on 30 June 1919.
On 15 October 1919 she embarked from Bombay on the ‘Koenig Frederich August’ for one month leave in England (perhaps hoping to catch up with her brother, Claude Esler McLellan who had enlisted in 1915, aged 19). She returned to Australia from Liverpool on the ‘Megantic’ (a sister ship to the ‘Titanic’ which had sunk in 1912) on 14 January 1920, disembarked in Melbourne on 20 February 1920, and was discharged on 31 March.
Reference List
Mount Gamier High School Admissions Register, 55
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of David Esler MCLELLAN and Charlotte Eliza nee JONES, Riversdale Road, Camberwell, Vic.
1917 - Nurse L. McLellan, who trained at the Port Fairy hospital, embarks at Melbourne tomorrow for active ser vice abroad. She first goes to India, proceeding afterward to London, and probably on to France. Her friends her are legion, and she carries with her their best wishes.
1918 - Nurse L. McLellan, daughter of Mr D. E. McLellan, Camberwell, a probationer at the local hospital some time ago, is at present in a hospital in India, suffering from an attack of appendicitis. She was we are pleased to state, successfully operated on and is now on the road to recovery.
Sister Lillian McLellan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. McLellan, of " Wombalano," Hawthorn, and late of Mount Gambler, sails by the Ormonde on Saturday to visit friends In Ceylon, India, and Burmah. She expects to be absent about six months. Sister McLellan la a granddaughter of Mr. D McLellan, North Terrace, Mount Gambler, and served through the great war. Mr. McLellan had eight grandsons at the front, including Mr. J. Shanasy, son of Dr. Shanasy, who received the Military Medal.
Border Watch Friday 01 December 1922 page 2
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