Evangeline Amelia ROUNTREE

ROUNTREE, Evangeline Amelia

    Service Number: QAIMNSR
    Enlisted: Not yet discovered
    Last Rank: Staff Nurse
    Last Unit: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR)
    Born: Hamilton, Victoria, 1884
    Home Town: Hamilton, Southern Grampians, Victoria
    Schooling: Alexandra College Hamilton, Hamilton Hospital
    Occupation: Nurse
    Died: Bendigo, Victoria, 9 July 1966, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Not yet discovered
    Memorials: Hamilton Hospital Roll of Honour, Hamilton Primary School Roll of Honour
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    World War 1 Service

    18 Dec 1915: Embarked Staff Nurse, QAIMNSR, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR), Embarked on HMAT "A63' Karoola from Australia on 18th December 1915, disembarking England on 10th February 1916.
    10 Feb 1916: Transferred Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR),
  • 10th February 1916 - attached for duty to No. 4 General Hospital, Camiers France
  • 4th April 1916 - attached for duty to No 16 General Hospital, Le Treport France
  • 18th September 1916 - attached for duty to 34th Casualty Clearing Station
  • 25th November 1916 - attached for duty to 18th General Hospital, Camiers France
  • 14th June 1917 - attached for duty to No. 4 General Hospital, Camiers France
  • 19th November 1917 - returned to England to resign her position due to her mother's illness
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    19 Dec 1917: Discharged Staff Nurse, QAIMNSR, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR)
    19 Jan 1918: Embarked Staff Nurse, QAIMNSR, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR), Embarked on SS Saxonia from Liverpool, England on 19th January 1918 for return to Australia via New York USA.

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    Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

    Daughter of James Hughes and Margaret Strang (nee KITCHEN) ROUNTREE of 'Enniskene' Mill Road, Hamilton, Victoria.  James ROUNTREE ran a Chemist shop in Hamilton.

    A report written about her service stated - 'A very good surgical nurse.  Is kind to her patients - very energetic, is capable henceforth did a Sisters duty in acute surgical unit'

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