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MCELNEA, Violet Irene
Personal Details
| Service Numbers: | QX22822, Q70262 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 August 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ingham, Queensland, Australia, 14 February 1904 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Heart Attack, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, 17 September 1959, aged 55 years |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW PLOT South Terrace, Niche wall JD, Position 284 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bangka Belitung Islands 8th Australian Division 2nd AIF Memorial, Bicton Vyner Brooke Tragedy Memorial, W.A. |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 12 Aug 1941: | Involvement Lieutenant, Q70262, on WW2NR as QX 22822 only | |
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| 12 Aug 1941: | Involvement QX22822, on WW2NR as QX22822 only | |
| 12 Aug 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 12 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX22822 | |
| 4 Apr 1946: | Discharged | |
| 4 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX22822 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sandra Barry
Violet was the daughter of William McElnea and Minnie Amelia McElnea nee McGhie.
Biography contributed by Cheryl Thompson
Violet Irene McElnea QX22822, was from Ingham and would have been celebrating her 38th birthday as the Vyner Brooke left Singapore in 1942. She passed away of a heart attack, unmarried, in 1959 at Chatswood, New South Wales aged 55. She was the first of the surviving Vyner Brooke nurses to die.
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