TAIT, Helen Elizabeth
| Service Number: | Matron |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 28 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Matron |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Maffra, Vic., 1880 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Vic., 26 November 1976, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Kyneton Honour Roll, Kyneton Presbyterian Church Honor Roll WW1 |
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Lithgow TAIT and Jessie nee GILLESPIE
Of Victoria
Trained 3 years Alfred Hospital
Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 4 October 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2627, position 46
Date of London Gazette: 4 June 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 5488, position 3
Sister Tait has bean on active service for two years and a half. Her first experience of military nursing was gained at the 1st Australian Hospital, Heliopolis. Egypt. Later she was attached to a hospital ship that brought back wounded soldiers to New Zealand.
On returning to the front she was appointed superintendent at a military hospital near Rouen. At present she is in charge of the 1st Casualty Clearing Station at Estaires, France. Sister Tait is a trainee of the Alfred Hospital, and for some time held the position of night superintendent at that institution.
Weekly Times Saturday 16 June 1917 page 10
Appointed Matron of the Repatriation Hospital, Caulfield, Melbourne
Matron at Melbourne Grammar School 1926 -1940
Did not marry
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