Margaret (Peggy) WILSON

WILSON, Margaret

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 17 June 1915
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
Born: Whroo, Vic., 1880
Home Town: Malvern East, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Many years of illness, Elsternwick, Vic., 9 October 1939
Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
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Memorials: Goulburn Weir War Memorial, Mooroopna Base Hospital Graduates Honour Roll, Mooroopna District Hospital Staff & Trainees Pictorial Honour Roll, Mooroopna War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

17 Jun 1915: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
9 May 1917: Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
9 May 1917: Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), HMAT Ulysses, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of William James WILSON and Ellen nee SMITH

Margaret trained at the Mooroopna Hospital, Vic. 

She did not marry and died at the age of 59 years.

SISTER MARGARET WILSON (Field Service Station, A.A.M.C., AIF) who died at Caulficld yesterday after many years of illness, will be cremated at Springvale today.  Sister Wilson  left Australia in 1917, and performed most of her war service in France, where she acted temporarily as matron Funeral arrangements are being carried out by Bothurst and Decker.

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