WALKER, Irene Patricia
| Other Name: | MAXWELL, Irene Patricia - Married Name |
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| Service Numbers: | QX56069, QFX56069 |
| Enlisted: | 4 September 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 8 July 1920 |
| Home Town: | Corinda, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Home Duties |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia, 27 September 2010, aged 90 years |
| Cemetery: |
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 4 Sep 1943: | Involvement Corporal, QX56069, on WW2NR as QX56069 & QFX56069 | |
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| 4 Sep 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QFX56069 | |
| 15 Jan 1947: | Discharged | |
| 15 Jan 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QFX56069 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daugher of Edgar Camden "Gar" WALKER and Dorothea Cecilia Blood nee DOWLING, Moreem Avenue, Corinda, Brisbane, Qld.
Wife of Charles Kempson MAXWELL
Patricia Walker started work at the Red Cross Depot in Brisbane in 1939. After completing the Voluntary Aid Detachment First Aid & Home Nursing courses, she transferred to the Red Cross Convalescent Hospital as a VA in 1941.
Pat joined the Australian Army Medical Women's Service in 1943 and enlisted in the AIF as a Nursing Orderly.
Pat was then posted to 2/14th AGH, a small mobile hospital set up entirley in tents, situated among the sand dunes in Parrarenda, a holiday beach outside of Townsville. In May 1944 a small cyclone flattened the hospial, with all staff and patients evacuated. Pat went to Brisbane for officer training and returned to Townsville when a new 2/14th AGH with wooden buildings had been established in Mundigburra.
After peace was declared, Pat returned to Brisbane to Greenslopes Hospital, where she remained until her discharge in 1947.
Pat later married Capt. Kempson Maxwell, Luckham Station, Winton, and they both took an active role in the Winton community until their retirement in 1978.
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