ALLENDER, Leonora Millicent
| Service Numbers: | Staff Nurse, Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 16 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, 19 June 1882 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Queen's College Ballarat, University of Melbourne |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Victoria, 11 June 1959, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Tree Plaque: |
Ballarat Avenue of Honour
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| Memorials: | Ballarat Avenue of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 May 1915: | Enlisted Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) | |
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| 9 May 1917: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 9 May 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), HMAT Ulysses, Sydney |
Typhoid raging
After varied and interesting experiences of life on active service, Miss L. Allender, a military nurse, has returned to Melbourne. When war nurses were needed she joined the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, and volunteered for Service. She reached Nish at a time when typhus was raging, and increasing the death-toll at a terrific rate. Frequently piles of bodies were allowed to accumulate because those in charge of the burial grounds could not cope with the task, that awaited them each day. Miss Allender and a woman orderly were the only British women attached to the Servian Army Medical Corps, which comprised men and women doctors from Russia, France, Albania, and other countries.
Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail Friday 27 April 1917 page 3
Submitted 12 February 2016 by Faithe Jones
Biography
Born 19 June 1882 at Ballarat, Vic.
Daughter of John ALLENDER and Mary Ann nee TURNER
Of 'Yerton' The Ridge, Canterbury, Vic.
Educated Queen's College, Ballarat, Vic. Matriculated from Melbourne University
Occupation prior to enlistment Trained Nurse
Trained at Melbourne General Hospital 1902 - 1905 1919 - 1911
Sister in charge of the Casualty Rooms, also the Out Patients Department and Summer Theatre
Private nursing 1905 - 1906 Theatre Sister at 'Clarendon'
Staff Sister at Melbourne Hospital 1909
Acting Matron at Coroki Hospital 1911
Theatre and Gynaecology Sister at Women's Hospital, Melbouren 1912
Private Nursing Home of own in Melbourne 1912 - 1914
Typhus Nursing under the Serbian Rest.
Special certificate for Infectious Diseases under RVTNA. Also Public Hospital cases in private and Bush Nursing.
Worked at St. Andrew's Military Hospital, Malta from 05 October 1915 to 08 April 1916
'She is a very good nurse and has performed her duties satisfactorily and conduct good. - Principal Matron, Malta
Enlisted QAIMNSR 16 May 1915
Residing at 134 Portsdown Road, Maida Vale
Left England in May 1915 and did twelve months service in Malta and on a Hospital Transport as Sister in QAIMNSR
Renewed contact with QAIMNSR 15 July 1916 for a period of six months
Resigned appointment 16 May 1916 in QAIMNSR in order to returned to Australia
In March 1917 was mentioned in Despatches for service in the Guildford Ward Hospital
Returned to Australia
Enlisted 26 April 1917
Aged 35 years
Embarked 09 May 1917 from Sydney per 'Ulysses'
Served in England
Returned to Australia 28 September 1918 per 'Malta'
Appointment terminated 08 March 1919
In 1920 residing at 'Wymera' Mair Street, Ballarat, Vic.
Married Captain Thomas Raymond IRELAND who was a Sea Captian.
Had one child- a daughter Patricia
Leonora died in 1959 in Victoria