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PALTRIDGE, Bessie Richardson
Personal Details
Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | Mount Barker, SA, 13 December 1889 |
Home Town: | Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Nurse |
Died: | Leederville, WA, 2 September 1984, aged 94 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Cremation only - ashes collected |
Memorials: | Keswick South Australian Army Nurses Roll of Honor |
Service History
World War 1 Service
Date unknown: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse |
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Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Harry PALTRIDGE and Hannah Wilson nee RICHARDSON
Reported for duty at 7th AGH 26 August 1918
Aged 28 years
Did not proceed overseas
Volunteered to nurse Influenza patients
Travelled to WA 21 December 1918 East West Train
Returned 29 May 1919 East West Train from WA
Demobilzed 19 June 1919
Married Francis Eric HITCHINS in 1921