TOFT, Alice May
| Service Numbers: | Staff Nurse, Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 6 October 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 9 June 1885 |
| Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Natural causes, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 11 August 1928, aged 43 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bundaberg General Cemetery, Queensland PLOT Section: General |
| Memorials: | Bundaberg Australian Service Nurses Memorial Wall |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Oct 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 12 Nov 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Nov 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne | |
| 1 Oct 1918: | Promoted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
| 19 Sep 1919: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
Daughter of Joseph Toft and Sarah Ann Harrison
Did not marry
Adjutant Toft, matron of the Salvation Army Maternity Home, in Carrington street, has been transferred to the charge of a similar Army home in Sydney. Staff Captain Park, of Brisbane, will succeed her in Adelaide.
The Advertiser Saturday 01 October 1910 page 12
Memorial Service
A memorial service to the late Adjutant May Toft was conducted in the Salvation Army Citadel by the divisional commander (Major Bentley), assisted by Captain Wheeler (divisional young people's secretary). Adjutant Toft, who was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Toft, North Bundaberg, had been associated, with the Salvation Army from girlhood. A nurse by profession, she served with the AIF in France. On returning to Australia she continued herwork with the Salvation Army, but some six years ago she came home to nurse her Invalided mother. She had been ill a week prior to her death.
The Brisbane Courier Monday 27 August 1928 page 17
Alice May Toft entered the Melbourne Training Home on 9 December 1907 from Bundaberg, aged 20. She was appointed to Bethesda on 21 June 1908. Alice enlisted in the AANS on 6 October 1915 and sailed to Egypt with Eva Olive Eggleston, Georgina Collins and Jane Gant. Alice Toft was able to have Georgina Collins as her companion throughout the whole of her was service. She was subsequently posted to London, then to France and later to England again. She was discharged from the AANS on 12 of July 1919 and after furlough was appointed to the League of Mercy Office in Sydney Headquarters. She was then appointed to Bethesda Melbourne but resigned her Commission as an Officer in 1925 to look after her ill mother. Alice Toft died prematurely at her brother’s home in Bundaberg on 11 August 1928 from cancer.
Courtesy of Dennis Garland and The Salvation Army
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