Mary Adelaide (Mollie) MALE

MALE, Mary Adelaide

Service Numbers: SX1495, SXF1495
Enlisted: 16 December 1939, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: 2nd/7th Australian General Hospital
Born: Boulder City, Western Australia, 7 December 1909
Home Town: Murray Bridge, Murray Bridge, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nursing Sister
Died: Natural Causes, 3 January 2003, aged 93 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Wonboyn Lake Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

16 Dec 1939: Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WWII), Captain, SX1495
16 Dec 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, SX1495, 2nd/2nd Australian General Hospital, Adelaide, SA
22 Jan 1946: Discharged
22 Jan 1946: Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WWII), Captain, SXF1495, 2nd/7th Australian General Hospital

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Biography contributed

Daughter of Sarah Louisa MALE, David Terrace, Murray Bridge, SA

MISS MARY MALE is a Murray Bridge girl, who trained at Wakefield Street Private Hospital. She did nursing at country hospitals before returning to Wakefield street, where she has been X-ray and assistant theatre sister prior to enlisting.

Captain Male served in the Australian Army Nursing Service for 2175 days:  1188 days in active service within Australia, including time within the Northern Territory (12/12/43 - 3/11/44) and 893 days in service overseas, including the Middle East (15/4/40 - 17/3/42) and New Guines (12/6/45 - 19/12/45).

In 1947 Sarah married Samuel Lake Ralton.

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