LANGLANDS, Eleanor Augusta Victoria
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Victorian Nursing Sisters |
| Born: | Ballarat, Vic., 1866 |
| Home Town: | Welshpool, South Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Melbourne, Vic., 17 May 1943, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Preston Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sister, Victorian Nursing Sisters |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of George Boyd and Sarah Jane LANGLANDS
Of 'Wilton' Welshpool, South Gipplsand, Vic.
Embarked for Cape Town 10 March 1900 per 'Euryalus'
Suffered Enteric Fever
Convalescing at Synburg
Died 1943
Miss Langlands left Melbourne with the fourth contingent but the other nursing sisters are attached to the Imperial Medical Corps, and were sent with the Orient to attend to the sick men on board.
The Argus Saturday 13 July 1901 page 13
Nurse Langlands, who has been on duty in South Africa, and returned to Melbourne a short time since, is to be married almost immediately to a captain in the Imperial Army.
Critic Saturday 12 October 1901 page 29
MARRIAGE.
PITCAIRN—LANGLANDS— On 22nd March, at Scots Church, Collins-street, Melbourne, by the Rev. W. Borland, Neil Tennant (of Toora), sixth son of Gilbert Pitcairn, of "Eddlewood," Hamilton, Scotland, to Eleanor Augusta Victoria, eldest daughter of George Boyd Langlands, of "Wilton," Welshpool.
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