Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Enlisted 29/5/1917 at Bendigo, Vic

Embarked Melbourne 12/6/1917 on board the RMS Mooltan – and disembarked Suez 19/7/1917 – re-embarking on the Chagres on the 25/7/1917 for Salonika – arriving 30/7/1917 & att 42nd Gen Hosp.

Admitted 43rd Gen Hosp 27/11/1918, seriously ill with Malaria
Returning from Salonika, she was disembarked from the Gorgan at Alexandria 8/2/1919.

Re-embarked at Suez 22/2/1919 on the Novgorod for return to Australia – where she was disembarked at Geelong 31/3/1919 and admitted to hospital with Malaria, complicated with dysentery & jaundice.

Died 9/4/1919 at “Riviera” (Nurse McKenzie’s) Private Hospital, Myers St, Geelong, Vic, age 25 (pre-discharge) of Malaria & Acute Nephritis contracted in Salonika.

Buried in a Military Funeral at Bendigo Civil Cemetery, Carpenter St, Bendigo, Vic – in the Church of England Section: Plot H, Row 1, Grave No. 24202

Sister May Hennessy, of Bendigo, who died at Geelong on Thursday from malarial fever, contracted while doing hospital duty at Salonika, was accorded a military funeral on Saturday. Sister Hennessy is the first Bendigo nurse to lose her life through war duty.  The funeral was one of the largest seen in Bendigo. A firing party of returned soldiers and a band playing the "Dead March" preceded the salvage waggon (sic) of the Bendigo Fire Brigade, on which was the coffin. This was followed by over 200 returned soldiers. Returned soldiers acted as pall bearers and coffin bearers and at the conclusion of the service they fired a volley over the grave. 
The Argus (Melbourne), 15 April 1919.