BAYSTON, Dora
| Service Number: | Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 17 June 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, 25 May 1885 |
| Home Town: | Caulfield, Glen Eira, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Adamstown School |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Natural causes, Melbourne, Victoria, 16 August 1930, aged 45 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria Church of England B 62 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jun 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Jun 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 17 Jun 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| 12 Oct 1920: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
Suffering Typhoid Fever
Mr. Walter S. Bayston, of Caulfield, has received information that his daughter, Staff-Nurse Dora Bayston, who has been serving with the Australian Imperial Force since the beginning of 1915, first in Egypt and latterly in France, is at the present
time an inmate of the 25th Stationary Hospital, suffering from typhoid fever.
Submitted 13 February 2016 by Faithe Jones
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Walter Smythe Bayston and Mary Ellen Bayston nee King.
March 1917 - Staff Nurse Dora Bayston, daughter of Mr. Walter S. Bayston, of Caulfield, is suffering from an attack of typhoid fever, and is a patient at the 25th Stationary Hospital. Nurse Bayston has been in the 1st Australian General Hospital, attached to the Australian Imperial Force, since the beginning of 1915.
In 1928 Dora was the Vice-President of the Returned Army Nurses Club.
BAYSTON - On the 16th August at "Marinook" Private Hospital, Victoria Parade, East Melbouren, Dora, youngest duaghter of Walter S. and the late Mary Ellen Bayston.
BAYSTON.— The Private Funeral of the late Miss DORA BAYSTON will leave Sleight's Chapel, 188 Flinders Street, Melbourne, on MONDAY, the 18th Instant, at 3.30 P.m., for the Brighton Cemetery, arriving at 4.10 p.m.
A. A. SLEIGHT PTY. LTD.
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