Florence Elizabeth TROTTER MID

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TROTTER, Florence Elizabeth

Service Numbers:	QX19077, QFX19077
Enlisted:	17 January 1941
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	10th Australian General Hospital
Born:	Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia, 4 October 1915
Home Town:	Taringa, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Nurse
Died:	Kenmore, Queensland, Australia, 31 July 2002, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Plot Area 7, Bed 5, Plot 10 Florence Elizabeth Syer
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bicton Vyner Brooke Tragedy Memorial, W.A.

World War 2 Service

17 Jan 1941:	Involvement Lieutenant, QX19077, on WW2NR as QFX19077
17 Jan 1941:	Enlisted
17 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QFX19077, General Hospitals - WW2
27 Mar 1946:	Discharged
27 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QFX19077, 10th Australian General Hospital

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Biography contributed by Cheryl Thompson

Married surname Syer

Biography contributed by Sandra Barry

Florence was born in 1915, the daughter of James C. and Agnes B. Trotter.

14 Feb 1942: Imprisoned Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies - Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, The SS Vyner Brooke was sunk by Japanese aircraft. The survivors made for nearby Bangka Island, already under Japanese occupation.

On 15.11.1947 in Queensland Florence married Francis Vernon Syer.

Memorial - Qld Garden of Remembrance.

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