Florence Elizabeth MCMILLAN

MCMILLAN, Florence Elizabeth

    Service Number: AANS
    Enlisted: 5 May 1915, Place of enlistment - Sydney, New South Wales<br><br>Prior to her enlistment Sister McMillan volunteered to serve on the Hospital Ship Grantala which served with the Australian Naval and Military Expedition Force in the former German possessions of New Guinea between September and December 1914.
    Last Rank: Sister
    Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
    Born: Burwood, Sydney New South Wales, 21 January 1882
    Home Town: Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales
    Schooling: Claremont College Randwick, Academie Julian Paris, Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney
    Occupation: Nurse
    Died: Aortic Aneurysm, Woollahra, Sydney New South Wales, 9 February 1943, aged 61 years
    Cemetery: Waverley Cemetery, Bronte, New South Wales
    Plot W-9-GE-SL-867
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    World War 1 Service

    5 May 1915: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Place of enlistment - Sydney, New South Wales

    Prior to her enlistment Sister McMillan volunteered to serve on the Hospital Ship Grantala which served with the Australian Naval and Military Expedition Force in the former German possessions of New Guinea between September and December 1914.
    15 May 1915: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked on RMS Mooltan from Sydney on 15th May 1915, disembarking Egypt.
    27 Jan 1916: Transferred Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1),
  • 27th January 1916 - disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt from Mudros
  • February 1916 - attached for duty with 3rd Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
  • August 1916 - attached for duty with 3rd Australian General Hospital, Lemnos
  • 5th October 1916 - arrived in England with 3rd Australian General Hospital
  • 1st November 1916 - granted two weeks leave
  • 23rd March 1917 - attached for duty with 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield
  • 5th May 1917 - attached for duty with 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall
  • 12th May 1917 - attached for duty with 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford
  • 8th June 1917 - attached for duty with 2nd Auxiliary Hospital, Southall
  • 29th June 1917 - detached from duty at 2nd Auxiliary Hospital, Southall and proceeded to France and attached for duty with 1st Austalian General Hospital, Rouen
  • 9th January 1918 - on leave in England until 23rd January 1918
  • 18th March 1918 - attached for duty with 5 Star Hospital, Dieppe
  • 28th August 1918 - attached for duty with 3rd Australian General Hospital, Abbeville
  • 2nd October 1918 - on leave in England until 17th October 1918
  • 6th November 1918 - admitted to hospital with influenza, rejoining unit on 9th December 1918
  • 16th February 1919 - admitted to hospital with Bronchitis, transferred to England on 20th February 1919 rejoining unit 18th March 1919
  • 15th March 1919 - granted leave with pay until 28th June 1919 to attend lectures at the Babies of the Empire Society where she trained in (Sir) Truby King's 'Plunket Mothercraft Method' in Earls Court London
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    23 Jul 1919: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
    30 Jul 1919: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Embarked for return to Australia in charge of nursing staff on HMAT 'A17' Port Lincoln from London. England on 30th July 1919, disembarking Sydney on 20th September 1919.
    19 Nov 1919: Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, AANS, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)

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    Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

    At St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral, Sydney, on 8 November 1929 Elizabeth married Dudley Percy Davidson, a Queensland Air Navigation Co. Ltd pilot. They lived in Brisbane. Dudley was killed on 31 December 1930 in an air crash at Maryborough Queensland.

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