Elizabeth CLELAND

CLELAND, Elizabeth

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 26 April 1915
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: 1st Australian General Hospital
Born: Auburn, SA, 19 December 1879
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Insufficiency of heart, Barnard Street, North Adelaide, SA, 27 December 1945, aged 66 years
Cemetery: West Terrace Cemetery (General)
Cremation only
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World War 1 Service

26 Apr 1915: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
15 May 1915: Involvement 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
15 May 1915: Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, RMS Mooltan, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of Elphinston Davenport CLELAND and Susan Blood fmly HOBBS nee DAVIES

Found to suffer from Myocarditis by 24 October 1916
Returned to Australia 21 July 1917 per “Euripides” On Duty
Discharged as medically unfit 18 March 1918
Did not marry

Sudden Death Of Miss Elizabeth Cleland

Miss Elizabeth Cleland, of Barnard street, North Adelaide, died suddenly at her home yesterday. She was 66. Miss Cleland was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Cleland. of Adelaide, and a cousin of Prof. J. B. Cleland. She served overseas as a nurse in World War I, but had been an invalid for many years.

The Advertiser Friday 28 December 1945 page 6

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