FLEMING, Elizabeth Gertrude
| Service Number: | Sister |
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| Enlisted: | 28 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 1879 |
| Home Town: | Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 26 March 1969, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Footscray Cemetery, Victoria Wesleyan C, Grave 421 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Nov 1914: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 5 Dec 1914: | Involvement 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Dec 1914: | Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Kyarra, Melbourne | |
| 25 Jul 1917: | Honoured Royal Red Cross (2nd Class), awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class) Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917 Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 26 Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917 Location in London Gazette: Page 1950, position 6 | |
| 10 Feb 1920: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Sister Fleming was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatches. Certificate 31089/252 |
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Daughter of William FLEMING and Janet nee WEIR
Trained at Melbourne Hospital for 3 years.
Elizabeth served in England and France during the war and returned to Australia 08 February 1919 per 'Miltiades'.
Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 25 July 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1544, position 26
Date of London Gazette: 23 February 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 1950, position 6
Mentioned in Despatches
In 1918, Sister E. Gertrude Fleming, now in charge of the Military Sanitorium at Macleod, received the Royal Command to attend Buckingham Palace so that she might be invested with the Royal Red Cross (Second Class). When war was declared, Miss Fleming was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service, and at once volunteered for military duty. She worked in hospitals at Heliopolis and Ismailia, Egypt, and then went to Dartpool Military Hospital, England. After some months with the Fifth British Stationary Hospital in France, she was given charge of the First Australian Casualty Clearing Station, in which position she remained till the Armistice was signed. Sister Fleming was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatches. She trained at the Melbourne Hospital.
She married William HUNTER in 1922
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