PERRIN, Henrietta
| Service Number: | Nurse |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 21 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF |
| Born: | Menindee, New South Wales, Australia, 11 June 1885 |
| Home Town: | Hackney, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Stanley Grammar School, Watervale, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Glenelg, South Australia,, 13 May 1982, aged 96 years |
| Cemetery: |
Victor Harbor General Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Keswick South Australian Army Nurses Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Nov 1914: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 5 Dec 1914: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Nurse, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, HMAT Kyarra, Melbourne | |
| 1 Dec 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Nursing Sister | |
| 1 Jan 1917: | Wounded Red Cross enquiry by Mother, Henrietta | |
| 7 Jul 1919: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Served in England & France |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Daughter of George and Henrietta PERRIN.
Hettie grew up in Watervale near Clare, and was educated at the Stanley Grammar School. She left home at 21 and went to the Adelaide College of Dressmaking, started work at the Kanetta Nursing Home North Adelaide and started training as a nurse when she was 24 at Adelaide Hospital. Finishing training in 1914, Hettie went to war in November 1914. She took 80 pounds with her from her savings and had to pay for her own uniform, bedding, kit bags, stretchers and mattress. 300 nurses applied for the first intake and she was one of the 30 accepted and joined the hospital ship in Melbourne - SS Kyarra. She went to Egypt to Mena General Hospital near the pyramids and arrived before Gallipoli casualties at Lemnos. Hettie arrived at Gallipoli in May 1915. When nursing at Alexandria, each nurse had to care for 72 patients. She was mentioned in despatches twice and received a Royal Red Cross decoration. She went to England in October 1915 and spent 14 months in London, then to France in 1918 at the English hospital in Boulogne and was in London when peace was declared. She was decorated with Royal Red Cross and mentioned twice in despatches. Hettie returned to Australia in 1919 and was too sick to work for 12 months. Henrietta was disabled in the war and was honourable dischared in July 1919.
After the war ended Hettie married George Arthur DEPLEDGE and spent 27 years at "Warradale" the family farm near Waitpinga. In those days George used a single furrow plough to cultivate the land. They had as much as four acres under cultivation on which they sowed clover. The clover straw was put through a and chaff cutter, and clover seed was separated by a winnower turned by his wife. George was a councillor at Encounter Bay.
They retired to live in Victor Harbor in 1949. George died in 1953. After Hettie moved to Cedar Avenue, Unley. At the age of 94, she was still active and healthy and often went to the city to do her shopping. Hetti said at the time she was the only Sister alive of the 30 who enlisted with her. Hettie passed away at the Kapara Nursing Home, Glenelg at the age of 97.
Excerpt from 'The Stimson Family' ISBN 0 7316 0072 x
Biography contributed by Paul Lemar
Henrietta married George Arthur DEPLEDGE 26 September 1922 in St. John's Church, Adelaide, SA
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