WRIGHT, Evelyn Percy
| Service Number: | Sister |
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| Enlisted: | 23 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian Convalescent Depot |
| Born: | Sydney, NSW, August 1881 |
| Home Town: | Canley Vale, Fairfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nursing Sister |
| Died: | Nursing Home, Tamworth, 2 August 1985, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 23 Apr 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 15 May 1915: | Involvement 1st Australian Convalescent Depot, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 15 May 1915: | Embarked 1st Australian Convalescent Depot, RMS Mooltan, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Percy Philip and Alice Mary WRIGHT
Of Canley Vale, NSW
Did not marry
After the war Evelyn returned to the land, first living near Nowendoc then moving to a property at Nundle in the 1948. Evelyn was still living on her property when she celebrated her 100th birthday. Evelyn lived till almost 104. She died 3 weeks short of her 104th birthday in a nursing home in Tamworth in 1985.
Evelyn was awarded a British Empire Medal (Civilian Division) for Service to Agriculture in 1978. “Miss Wright has given over 50 years outstanding service to the development of the stud beef cattle breeding industry throughout New South Wales. At the age of 93 she still supervises the Hereford Stud breeding programme at her property in northern New South Wales” (citation).
Courtesy of Jennifer Wright