Violet Irene MCELNEA

MCELNEA, Violet Irene

    Service Numbers: Q70262, QX22822
    Enlisted: 12 August 1941, on WW2NR as QX 22822 only
    Last Rank: Lieutenant
    Last Unit: 2nd/4th Casualty Clearing Station
    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.
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    World War 2 Service

    12 Aug 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, Q70262, on WW2NR as QX 22822 only
    7 Dec 1941: Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX22822, 2nd/4th Casualty Clearing Station, Malaya/Singapore
    4 Apr 1946: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX22822, 2nd/4th Casualty Clearing Station, on WW2NR as QX22822 only

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    Biography 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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