CLAPP, Hilda Winifred
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 14 March 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Ulooloo, SA, 8 December 1886 |
| Home Town: | Leederville, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Private Hospital, Waverley, Sydney, NSW, 2 June 1925, aged 38 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 14 Mar 1917: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 30 Mar 1917: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Mar 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), HMAT Kanowna, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Thomas CLAPP and Thurza nee HANFORD
Of Leederville, WA
Sister at Perth Hospital
Resigned appointment due to marriage in UK 15 March 1919
Married Major Paul Lucien GOLDENSTEDT 15 March 1919 in England
Farewell Sister
Many a Digger who served in Egypt and Palestine will be sorry to hear of the death at a private hospital in Waverley (Sydney) of Mrs. Paul Goldenstedt, wife of Major Paul Goldenstedt, of Smith's Newspapers Ltd., who left Australia as an N.C.O. with the 3rd Battalion, served with the Imperial Camel Corps and later with the Political Service in the stormy days following the armistice.
As Sister Clapp of the 14th A.G.H. Abbassia (Cairo) the late Mrs. Goldenstedt will be best remembered as the bright eyed little woman from West Australia who saw many Digger through the most trying stages of hospital experience.
A tragic circumstance surrounding the death of Mrs. Goldenstedt is the fact that she met and nursed in hospital the man who later was to become her husband. She leaves a daughter, Noreen, aged four, and a baby boy - Brian.
One man who saw Mrs. Goldenstedt laid to rest was Sgt. Ford, of Smith's Newspapers, who lost a leg in Palestine, was carried off the field by Major Goldenstedt, and nursed by one who he describes as 'Sister Clapp, the finest woman who ever rolled a bandage.'
Smith's Weekly Saturday 13 June 1925 page 22