Lilla Victoria May GARRETT

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GARRETT, Lilla Victoria May

Service Number:	SX1496
Enlisted:	19 December 1939, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	2nd/2nd Australian General Hospital
Born:	Yorketown, South Australia, 17 October 1910
Home Town:	Warooka, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Nursing Sister
Died:	Natural Causes, 4 May 1996, aged 85 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia RSL, Wall 127, Niche C004
Memorials:	Warooka District WW2 Honour Board

World War 2 Service

19 Dec 1939:	Involvement Captain, SX1496
19 Dec 1939:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
19 Dec 1939:	Enlisted SX1496
30 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, SX1496, 2nd/2nd Australian General Hospital

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of Oliver Charles GARRETT, Warooka, SA

MISS LEILA GARRETT, of Warooka, was in Victoria when her appointment was announced. Originally a Royal Adelaide trainee, Miss Garrett was 18 months at the Repatriation Hospital at Keswick, and left there to take charge of the Tongola Bush Nursing Hospital in Victoria prior to enlisting.

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