Melna Isobel BROWN

BROWN, Melna Isobel

Service Number: SX1491
Enlisted: 20 December 1939, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Major
Last Unit: 2nd/2nd Australian General Hospital
Born: Broken Hill, NSW, 26 February 1912
Home Town: Marden, Norwood, Payneham & St. Peters, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nursing Sister
Died: Natural Causes, 21 January 2008, aged 95 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
SE Rose Bed S13 53
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World War 2 Service

20 Dec 1939: Involvement Major, SX1491
20 Dec 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, SX1491, 2nd/2nd Australian General Hospital, Adelaide, SA
25 Mar 1946: Discharged
25 Mar 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, SX1491

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

She trained at the Adelaide Hospital from 1933 – 1936, and was a Staff sister there for three years prior to enlisting in 1940 in the Australian Army Nursing Service and had recently completed her midwifery and child welfare course.

Head and shoulders studio portrait shows Sister Melna Brown wearing a veil and also two medals. The centre badge in black and silver is from the South Australian Nurses Registration Board - received when nurses first register. The Gold Medal on her left was awarded by the Adelaide Hospital to those nurses who gained a distinction in the final examinations.

She graduated from Adelaide Hospital in 1936 as a gold medalist, and was appointed Charge Nurse. In 1940, she served overseas during World War II. On her return, she went on to become Matron of Daw Park Repatriation Hospital.

Married BLAKE

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