COOK, Florence Beatrice
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 1 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Albany, WA, 28 August 1890 |
| Home Town: | Kellerberrin, Kellerberrin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | South Australia, 28 May 1986, aged 95 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Derrick Garden of Remembrance, Tree Bed 37, Position 9 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Oct 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Orsova, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Florence was the daughter of John and Ann Cook. John was train driver on the Great Southern Railway and a hotelier in Katanning from 1895. She married Albert McLeod (son of George McLeod, a Katanning hotelier) on 3 March 1916 at the Abbassia Chapple in Cairo, Egypt.
Florence worked at the Base Hospital in Fremantle before embarking at Fremantle for Egypt. In Egypt she was attached to the 1st AGH at No. 4 Auxiliary Hospital.
On her return to Western Australia, Florence worked at several hospitals throughout the state. She was temporary Matron at the Katanning Hospital from 1938 before being made permanent from May, 1940 to January, 1942. She died in South Australia on 28 May, 1986, aged 95.
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