TURVEY, Kathleen May
Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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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 |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
24 May 1917: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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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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Add my storyBiography 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