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Daughter of Robert WYLLIE and Agnes nee REILLY
NOK Alexander WYLLIE (Brother) of Electric Power Station, Auckland, New Zealand
Educated Halifax House School, Adelaide
Trained at Adelaide Hospital August 1892 to August 1895
Resigned March 1897
District Nurse April 1897 to Dec 1899
Sanitary Inspector East Torrens County Board of Health January 1900 to January 1911
Queens Nurse England June 1911 to 20 August 1914
Senior Sister Australian Voluntary Hospital Sussex 20 August 1914 to present date.
Embarked from England 17 July 1916 for France
Posted to 13 General Hospital 17 July 1916
19th Ambulance Train 16 December 1916
13th General Hospital 30 December 1916
19th Ambulance Train 10 February 1917
10 Stationary Hospital 25 July 1917
19 Ambulance Train 09 July 1917
4 General Hospital 25 July 1917
Nurses Hostel, Abbeville (duty) 01 November 1917
18 Casualty Clearing Station 06 November 1917
10 Stationary Hospital 24 March 1918
18 Casualty Clearing Station 10 April 1918
22 Casualty Clearing Station 12 April 1918
12 Stationary Hospital 09 May 1918
22 Casualty Clearing Station 17 May 1918
12 Stationary Hospital 19 September 1918
22 Casualty Clearing Station 25 September 1919
To UK for demobilization 24 November 1919
Service terminated 02 December 1919
Address on discharge Garrie House, Kirriemuir, Scotland

Mentioned in Despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 6 April 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 859, position 21
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 73, position 3

Awarded Royal Red Cross 2nd Class
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 4 October 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2627, position 48
Date of London Gazette: 4 June 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 5488, position 5

Several months ago it was announced, on what was believed to be good authority, that Sister Agnes Wyllie, who is connected with a British hospital in France, had been awarded the Royal Red Cross. On Monday her brother, Mr. R. J. Wyllie, of Unley Park, received a Letter from Sister Wyllie stating that a mistake had evidently been made, as the honour referred to had not been conferred upon her, although she had been mentioned in despatches on New Year's Day. The nurse, who has been on duty at the front since the beginning of the war, says in her epistle that the Australian hospital to the staff of which she was attached eased to exist as such on June 30 last, and was taken over by the, British War Office, and was now a regular army hospital.

The Register Tuesday 31 October 1916 page 4

Well-Known War Nurse

I met Mr. R. J. Wyllie recently, just back from Tasmania, whither he went to see his sister, Sister Agnes Wyllie. Many of her old friends here will be sorry to learn that since his return he has had word to say that she has passed away. Sister Wyllie had an interesting career. She was trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and was later district nurse at Norwood. When the last war broke out, she went to England with the first contingent of nurses under Lady Dudley, and, joining the British Army, was one of the last out of it. Sister Wyllie returned Home, and then went on to New Zealand to keep house for her brother (the late Alec Wyllie), who had lost his wife. He, by the way, was a South Australian Scholar, who went to England to study engineering, and while there built the Walsall (Yorkshire) tramway. After his death in New Zealand in 1924, Sister Wyllie transferred to Hobart to care for the two young sons of her deceased sister, Mrs. A. Buring. Mr. Wyllie told me that the S.A. Fellowship in Tasmania will hold a big reunion in Hobart on October 27.

Chronicle Thursday 31 October 1940 page 46