CROLL, Marian Winifred
| Service Number: | Sister |
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| Enlisted: | 11 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Brisbane, 1886 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Plane Crash, Kallang Airport, Singapore, 13 March 1954 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Brisbane St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Great War Honour Roll (2), Corinda Sherwood Shire Roll of Honor, Queensland Australian Army Nursing Service Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Nov 1914: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Arthur Peel PAYNE and David Gifford CROLL
Wife of Major David Gifford CROLL
She married in 1912.
Discharged as medically unfit 06 June 1916
Marian was killed in the BOAC Lockhead Constellation crash which occurred at Kallang airport Singapore on 13 March 1954.
There were 33 passengers killed and most of them were trapped on the plane when it caught fire.
BRISBANE WOMAN KILLED
DOCTOR'S WIDOW ON WAY TO JAPAN
Mrs Winifred Croll, 68, of Joseph Street, Sherwood, Brisbane, who was killed in the Constellation crash at Singapore on Saturday, was on her way to Japan. She was to have joined her sister, Mrs. F. Clinton, a Sydney commercial artist, at Singapore, and they were to have travelled to Japan on a six weeks' tour. Mrs. Croll was the widow of Dr. Gifford Croll who practised in Sherwood for 35 years. In Egypt in the 1914-18 war, Mrs. Croll nursed members of the AIF who had been wounded at Gallipoli. She was one of the first Australian nurses to go to the Middle East. After her return to Australia in 1916, she became the first secretary of the Queensland War' Nurses' Fund, which helped World War I nurses. Friends in Brisbane said last night that this set the pattern for the rest of her life. She was ''a great citizen, and was always helping someone.' She was once a Queensland Guides Commissioner and Red Cross Society member.
The Courier-Mail Monday 15 March 1954 page 1
For crash victim
Fellow nurses and 200 friends of the late Mrs.Gifford Croll placed, wreaths on the Shrine of Remembrance this week. Mrs. Croll, widow of the late Dr. Gifford Croll, of Sherwood, Brisbane, lost her life in the Constellation crash at Singapore on March 13.The moment of remembrance was arranged by the Returned Sisters' sub branch of the RSL, of which Mrs. Croll was a member.
Among wreaths was one from the council and members of the British Medical Association. Rev. Norman Webster gave a short address and prayer. Mrs. Croll was among the first Australian nurses to go to the Middle East during the First World War, leaving in the Kyarra in November, 1914.
Sunday Mail Sunday 28 March 1954 page 5
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