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DAVIES, Lily Malcolm
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 12 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Semaphore, SA, 16 November 1885 |
| Home Town: | Unley, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Daw Park, SA, 4 August 1970, aged 84 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Cremation only |
| Memorials: | College Park Congregational Church Honour Roll, Keswick South Australian Army Nurses Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Aug 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 26 Aug 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Morea embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 26 Aug 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), RMS Morea, Adelaide | |
| 7 Mar 1918: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Ormonde embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 7 Mar 1918: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), SS Ormonde, Melbourne | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Nursing Sister |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
Mrs Lily Malcolm Hurst was awarded a Life Membership of RSL through the Return Sisters sub branch. She served as President 1932 to 36, vice President 1967-68; committee 49,57 to 62, 65,67,67; sub Branch Conference delegate 67/68. worked for the Home for the Aged Trained Nurses committee 10 years serving as Returned Sisters delegate. She was a JP for 16 years. Co Leader of Prospect Volunteering Service Delachinent during WW11 4 years. Feeryed midwiferePatient who had no taxi available. Founding member of the South Australian branch of Florence Nightingale committee. Visited nurses in goal. Chairman SA trained Nurses Centenary committee.
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Thomas Edward DAVIES and Ellen nee OLDFIELD of Oxford Terrace, Unley, SA
WAR NURSES.
From Lily M. Davies. Kent Town: --''Calls are being made through your columns for more nurses for the front. In September last, when the appeal was first made, many nurses, of whom I was one, applied for enrolment, from a purely patriotic motive. We were trainees of the good old A.C.H.. engaged in work as staff nurses in one of the heaviest districts in the State, recognised by the A.T.N.A. of which we are members, and had other varied experiences. Our papers were filled in, but since then we have been ignored. It is very galling when doctors one has worked with for years and old patients and friends ask, 'Why haven't you gone to the front?' and when we know there is so much work to do and so few to do it.
We are told that if we go to other States they will take us, but that is not what we want. Born and bred in South Australia ,we think we are entitled to be enlisted for service as from this State."
The Register Monday 28 June 1915 page 10
Mrs. Hurst, who is still keenly interested in the work of her colleagues, was married in the January after armistice, and as Miss L. M. Davies she spent most of the war time at Southampton, in England. She also served in India and Egypt.
News Saturday 25 April 1936 page 3
Married Reginald Leslie HURST 25 January 1919 at College Park Congregational Church, St. Peters, SA. She was residing at Prospect when she passed away.
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