Myra Septima Hutchinson WYSE

WYSE, Myra Septima Hutchinson

Service Number: Sister
Enlisted: 24 November 1914, Sydney, New South Wales
Last Rank: Sister
Last Unit: 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF
Born: Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, 24 October 1886
Home Town: Randwick, Randwick, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Concord Military Hosptial, Burwood, New South Wales, 15 June 1963, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

24 Nov 1914: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sydney, New South Wales
28 Nov 1914: Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Sister, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF,

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28 Nov 1914: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Sister, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney
2 Nov 1917: Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister
2 Nov 1917: Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)

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Biography

Daughter of John William Hutchinson WYSE and Augusta Maria nee ELLIOTT
Of Randwick, Sydney

Resigned Appointment 02 Nov 1917 in England, to wed  Major Edmund Osborn Milne, DSO (/explore/people/127182)

Nurses' Appreciation

The secretary to the West Maitland Mayoress' Patriotic Committee (Miss Vera Markwell) has received the following letter from Sister Wyse, of No. 2 Australian General Hospital, Boulogne, France: — 'I saw a very nice box opened last week for the Sisters, and was a lucky recipient of some of the contents, for which many thanks are due. The torches especially were appreciated, as we have all bought them here, and they (the French ones) do not seem to last very long. We are kept very busy, but longing to have all our own boys instead of a few. Most of our patients are 'Tommies,' and our boys ard going, to various British hospitals to be nursed, chiefly by inexperienced V.A.D's. It seems a shame when Australia has sent so many trained women over here. I wish we had some V.A.D's. here, — they are very useful — (but not to have charge of wards as they do in British hospitals on night duty. Our boys have done very well, and all are wonderfully cheerful, and don't they appreciate coming home, as they call our hospital. Thanking you on behalf of the other Sisters, yours, Myra Wyse.

The Maitland Daily Mercury Wednesday 18 October 1916 page 4

A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE
MEET IN WAR ZONE HOSPITAL

With the last mail news was received thatthe marriage was to take place at Harefield Church, near London, of Sister Myra Wyse, daughter of Mrs. Wyse, of Oswestry, Randwick, Sydney, and Major E. O. Milne, son of the late Deputy Chief Commissioner of Railways (Mr. E. Milne), and of Mrs. Milne, of Ryde. Major Milne, who has been twice mentioned in despatches, and gained the D.S.O. He is now attached to the Headquarters Staff in France. The Major and his wife met at Boulogne, where Sister Wyse was attached to the casualty clearing station, just behind the lines. During three weeks' furlough they met again in London, where they became engaged. They intended spending their honeymoon at Devon New Forest. Nurse Muriel Wyse, who is also on active service, was to be bridesmaid. Sister Wyse trained at the Sydney Hospital under Matron Creal, and enlisted from Bathurst, where she was matron. She was sent to Egypt, and came back to Sydney with the first batch of wounded. She returned to the front in January of last year, and went to France, where she had a strenuous time, often working in the mud, clad in a sou'-westor and gum boots. At one time she had the Kaiser's cousin in her ward. Returning to England, Sister Wyse was with the Harefield Hospital, and she will take up motor ambulance work in England after her marriage. Major Milne has a brother, Captain Clarence Milne, on active service


Goulburn and the War.
Major Milne (son of the late Mr. E. Milne, Railway Commissioner) is returning to Australia. His wife (formerly Nursing Sister Wyse) is on the Argyllshire.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post Tuesday 11 February 1919 page 2

The Return of Mrs. E. 0. Milne.

Among the passengers who landed from the Argyllshire on Friday was Mrs. E. 0. Milne,better known to members of the A.I.P. as Sister Myra Wyse. Mrs. Milne, who was matron of Bathurst Hospital, left Sydney by the Kyarra in November, 1914, and was first stationed at No. 2, A.G.H., Egypt. She unfortunately contracted septic pneumonia white at Mena Camp, 1915, and after a serious illness she was invalided to Australia but returned to duty in Jan., 1916. After a short time in Egypt, she was transferred to France, and was engaged, at various places, including Marseilles, Boulogne, and Rouen. The horrors of the winter at Baupaume are still fresh in Mrs. Milne's memory. At the 3rd Casuality Clearing Station she had seven tents with 42 men in each. The station was adjacent to the rail head at Baupaume, and the Germans kept up a ceaseless shell fire, which proved most nerve wracking to both nurses and patients."But the boys were wonderful," says Mrs. Milne. "Their appreciation for everything we did for them was the greatest recompense one could ask for."After the fighting was over, and there was a certain amount of peace prevailing, the infantry men made a tennis court for the nurses right near the old German trenches, and this spot, where once such dreadful carnage had raged, witnessed, heated games between nurses and men who were resting after the fray. Mrs. Milne is the wife of Major E. O. Milne, D.S.O., Croix-de-Guerre, son of the Late Mr. Edmund Milne, Deputy Commissioner for Railways. Major Milne is an Anzac, and is now on his way home to Australia. The marriage took place from Harefield Hospital, England, where Mrs. Milne was then stationed. For some time past Mrs. Milne has been engaged in war work at the office of the British Ministry of Pensions, London. She left England on December 9. Referring to her quarantine experience Mrs. Milne says--"What I felt most of all was our complete isolation on the Monday and Tuesday after the men left the ship. We received no letters or papers, and I know my mother posted more than 20 to me, none of which I have received." Dances were organised on board the Argyllshire during her stay in the harbour, but as Mrs. Milne was the only lady who danced she found this pastime rather a strenuous one. Mrs. Milne has a sister still on active service.--Sister Muriel Wyse, of No. 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station.

Goulburn Evening Penney Post Saturday 15 February 1919 page 2


1952 REUNION OF NURSES WHO SAILED IN KYARRA

THERE will be 17 guests at the reunion of nurses who sailed in the Kyarra first hospital ship to leave Australia in the 1914-18 war-to be held by Mrs. E. O.Milne at her home at Strathfield on November 25, the 38th anniversary of the sailing. Mrs. Milne trained at Sydney Hospital, and as Sister Myra Wyse, from Deniliquin, she sailed in the Kyarra. She met her future husband, now Colonel Milne, when she was serving on the Somme-"Ours was a behind-the-lines romance," she said last night. The 1951 reunion was held at the Queen's Club, when Miss Mattie Chisholm was hostess. Before that they had not met since Mrs. Milne's reunion dinner in 1943. Guests at this year's party will each receive from Mrs. Milne a copy of a letter she wrote describing the Kyarra's voyage, and which was published in the A.T.N.A.journal. Mrs. Milne goes every year to the Kyarra reunion in Melbourne on December 5.

Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 13 November 1952 page 5

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