RIDGWAY, Doris Alice
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 21 December 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Salter's Springs, South Australia, Australia, 13 November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Cookes Plains, The Coorong, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Sturt Street Public School, Adelaide High School, South Australia, |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Pneumonic Influenza , Woodman Quarantine Station, Western Australia, Australia, 6 January 1919, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia NC1. 7. |
| Memorials: | Adelaide High School Great War Honour Board, Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian Military Nurses Memorial, Cooke Plains Honour Roll, Cooke Plains WW1 Soldiers Memorial Hall, Kapunda Dutton Park Memorial Bullwinkel Memorial, Maryborough Nurses Honour Board, Melbourne St. Paul's Cathedral Australian Army Nursing Service Great War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Dec 1918: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse , Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Nurse Ridgway, who was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway,. of Cooke's Plains, was 26 years of age. She was the happy possessor of a loveable, amiable, and bright disposition, ensuring for her the deep affection of her relatives and the warmest regard of her personal friends. When the call came for volunteers to go into quarantine with pneumonic influenza patients, Nurse Ridgway offered her services, and with eleven others (including Nurse Bessie Paltridge, daughter of Mrs. H. Paltridge of Mount Barker, left Adelaide on December 21 for Fremant. She was inoculated before leaving. The matron in charge at Keswick stated on Wednesday that the news of Nurse Ridgway's death had come as a shock to all there. She was a bright., strong girl, very popular among the other members of the hospital staff, and
loved by the patients. - "PERSONAL." The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser (SA : 1880 - 1954) 10 January 1919: p.2.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Doris Alice RIDGWAY was born on 13th November, 1891 in Salters Springs, South Australia
Her parents were Arthur John Samuel RIDGWAY & Ada MITTON
She died of pneumonic influenza on 6th January, 1919 at the Woodman Pont Quarantine Station & is buried in the Woodman Point Cemetery
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