Her Story
Georgina Collins entered the Melbourne Training Home aged 24 on 21 November 1907 out of Barcaldine Queensland, and was appointed to Bethesda Melbourne on 24 June 1908. Georgina Collins enlisted in the AANS on 6 October 1915. She gave as her closest relative Mrs James Collins, Railway Reserve Barcaldine. Initially, she was posted to the Military Hospital at Broadmedows, Melbourne along with Jane Gant, Eva Eggleston and Alice Toft . She was then posted, along with her three sister Officer/Nurses to Egypt. She was fortunate to have Alice Toft as her companion throughout the whole of her war service. She was subsequently posted to London, then to France and later to England again. She was discharged from the AANS on 17 March 1920. On her discharge from the AANS she resumed the Army’s service, though before doing so she had some furlough which she spent at home with her mother in Barcaldine. In three of the The War Crys of 1920 there is a series of small notes stating that whilst home in Barcaldine on furlough she was placed in charge of the Barcaldine Corps until a replacement was found later that year. After her furlough she was appointed to Hope House Melbourne and retired as Brigadier on 5 January 1945, as Matron of Bethesda Hospital Melbourne.
Courtesy of Dennis Garland and The Salvation Army
Submitted 16 February 2016
by Daryl Jones
