Ivy Norma Kathleen RITCHIE

RITCHIE, Ivy Norma Kathleen

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Not yet discovered
Last Unit: 1st Australian Convalescent Depot
Born: Mount Rouse, Penshurst, Vic., 1880
Home Town: Anglesea, Surf Coast, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Torquay, Vic., 1953, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Geelong Hospital Members of Staff Honor Roll
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World War 1 Service

17 Jul 1915: Involvement 1st Australian Convalescent Depot, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
17 Jul 1915: Embarked 1st Australian Convalescent Depot, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Second youngest of ten children. Her father died when she was eight years old and her mother died just before the  outbreak of war.  Ivy trained in Geelong Hospital, passing her exams in 1908 and became the Sister in Charge of the Medical and Surgical Ward. She was posted to the Convalescent Depot, Harefield Park, London commencing duty on 3 September 1915. After serving two years there, Ivy was transferred on 21 September 1917 to No 1 Australian General Hospital in Rouen France. 

After the war Ivy lived Munday Street Torquay with her sister. She was living in Camperdown when the 1940 bushfire wiped out much of Torquay where Ivy's house was one of those burnt in the fire. She rebuilt with her sister and was living in Torquay when she died in 1953 aged 72 years.

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