GUEST, Annie Susan
| Service Numbers: | Sister, Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 5 November 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 1876 |
| Home Town: | Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Motor vehicle accident , St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, 1951 |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Nov 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 12 Nov 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Nov 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne | |
| 12 Jul 1919: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Anne served in Egypt, India, London and France. She was attached to the 2nd AGH at Wimereux. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Liz Clempson
Annie S Guest aged 38, joined the Australian Army on 7 Oct.1915 and also joined to go to India a few weeks later. She was a Sister and had been qualified for seven years, and had considerable experience in both nursing and being in charge. She sailed on the RMAT Orsova with the 1st AGH With Special Reinforcements on 12 Nov 1915 and arrived in Egypt 12 Jan 1916. Anie served in Egypt until 24 July when she embarked on the S. S. Neuralia, and sailed off to Bombay India. She nursed at Jullundar India in very different conditions to which she and her fellow sisters had been used to, until Jan 1916, when she emnarked for England.
She arrived at Southall England and spent time between there and Harefield, the 1st AAH for recuperating servicemen of all ranks and the ordinary soldier as well. On the 3rd Nov.1917 she embarked to go to France, arriving at Wimereux near Boulogne, and served the rest of her time in the war at the 2nd AGH.
They were quite close to the battle lines and had many air raid of course, but through it all Annie and her sister nurses continued on with their jobs. It would have been harrowing, seeing the poor men in such conditions with dreadful war wounds. The nurses and VADs were not only nurses to the men, they were confidantes, stand-in mothers and letter writers; whatever was needed to be done was done, to ensure the men could be as comfortable as was possible.
Annie would have been a kind, capable, caring woman, well versed in looking after the men, and seeing that they were as well looked after as was possible.
On her return after the War, she returned to work as a Sister in the Caulfield Repatriation Hospital, and on 29th October 1951 She was hit by a Taxi in St Kilda Victoria, and died from her injuries. She was 68 yrs old. She is buried in Fawkner Cemetary the following day.
RIP Sister Annie S Guest.
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