STAFFORD, Sarah Mary
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Count Cavan, Ireland, 21 October 1872 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 7 November 1962, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Baulkham Hills Patriotic League Roll of Honor, Norwest Mitchell Remembers Roll of Honour, Queensland Australian Army Nursing Service Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jan 1918: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
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| 5 Jan 1918: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), HMAT Borda, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Pam Trimmer
Sarah arrived in the colony aged five unassisted with parents John and Sarah Anne nee Niblock on board the Potosi arriving August 1883.
Sarah Mary Stafford the daughter of John Stafford an orchardist, by this time living in Seven Hills Rd, Baulkham Hills, NSW, was trained at the Royal Hospital for Women by 1913. The Australian contingent of nurses paid their own way to England and Europe to serve in WW1.
Following military service in WW1 she was registered doing further training at Callan Park, Sydney in 1926.
Sarah Mary Stafford received the Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal and died a single woman in the R.G.H Hospital, Concord in 1962.
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