CROSER, Olive May
Service Number: | SX10758 |
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Enlisted: | 13 August 1940, Adelaide, SA |
Last Rank: | Captain |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 5 November 1908 |
Home Town: | Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Nurse |
Memorials: | Minlaton War Memorial WW2 |
World War 2 Service
13 Aug 1940: | Involvement Captain, SX10758 | |
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13 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
13 Aug 1940: | Enlisted SX10758 | |
29 Jan 1946: | Discharged | |
29 Jan 1946: | Discharged SX10758 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Sister Croser worked at the RAH from 1927 – 1960. Her appointments included Sister- in-Charge of the Chest Clinic and later, Staff Matron, Hospitals Department.
She completed her nursing training at the Adelaide Hospital in 1930 and was appointed a Charge Nurse in 1931.
Sister Crosser enlisted in the Army Nursing Service in 1940 resumed her nursing career at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1946 in Outpatients Department. In 1951 she became Sister in Charge of the Chest Clinic and in 1961, transferred to the Hospitals Department as Staff Matron.