Mary Florence STAFFORD

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STAFFORD, Mary Florence

Service Number:	Nurse
Enlisted:	20 May 1915
Last Rank:	Staff Nurse
Last Unit:	1st Australian General Hospital
Born:	Nyngan, New South Wales, Australia , 1891
Home Town:	Torrens Park, Mitcham, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Nurse
Died:	Leukemia, Torrens Park, South Australia, 19 March 1919
Cemetery:	West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) Light Oval, Row 5S, Aspect E, Plot 5
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian Military Nurses Memorial, Burra District WW1 Honor Roll, Kapunda Dutton Park Memorial Bullwinkel Memorial, Keswick South Australian Army Nurses Roll of Honor, Maryborough Nurses Honour Board, Melbourne St. Paul's Cathedral Australian Army Nursing Service Great War Roll of Honour, Meredith State School No 1420 Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

20 May 1915:	Involvement 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
20 May 1915:	Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, RMS Mooltan, Adelaide
20 May 1915:	Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital

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Biography contributed by Paul Lemar

Nurse Mary Florence Stafford returned from abroad after two and a half years of active service, and remained on home service at Keswick Hospital. Later she was transferred to the military convalescent home at Torrens Park she died of Leukaemia whilst on duty.

The Register Thursday 31 May 1923 page 6

OUR GARDEN OF MEMORY.' An interesting aspect in connection with the Soldiers' Cemetery, which has been aptly termed 'Our garden of memory,' is the fact that the Cemetery Trust has been able to arrange for re-interments of the remains of members of the A.I.F. buried elsewhere into this cemetery. The first of these was the removal of the remains of Nurse Stafford from the Mitcham Cemetery.

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