Kathleen May TURVEY

TURVEY, Kathleen May

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 24 May 1917
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
Born: Strahan, Tas., 1891
Home Town: Latrobe, Latrobe, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Griffith, NSW, 15 September 1954, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

24 May 1917: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
9 Jun 1917: Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
9 Jun 1917: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), RMS Mooltan, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of John West TURVEY and Isabel Emily nee BROWN

Married Frank Macquarie Hume PROCTOR in 1920 in NSW

Staff Nurse Kathleen Turvey daughter of Mrs. J.W. Turvey, late of Gormanston; one of the 270 nurses who went to Egypt in the Mooltan, which was afterwards torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea. Trained at the Devon Hospital, Latrobe; then spent a year as a sister at the Tamworth Hospital, New South Wales.

Tasmania Weekly Courier 06 December 1917 page 24