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HOADLEY, Emily
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Sister |
Last Unit: | 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1 |
Born: | Shaw, near Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia, 26 June 1863 |
Home Town: | Blayney, Blayney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Nurse |
Died: | Natural causes, Wahroonga Sanitarium, New South Wales, Australia, 31 October 1952, aged 89 years |
Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW |
Memorials: | Blayney Boer War Memorial (Rededicated), Molong Armed Forces Personnel Roll of Honour |
Biography
Emily Hoadley of Blayney trained at the Sydney Hospital and spent some years working at the Molong Hospital, before joining the New South Welsh contingent of nurses bound for South Africa in the Boer War.
In World War One, Emily once again served Australia, enlisting with the 3rd Australian General Hospital.
She is commemorated on the war Memorial at Molong New South Wales and on the honour board in the Molong RSL