TWELVETREES, Edith
| Service Numbers: | Staff Nurse, Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) |
| Born: | Vokresensky, Russia, 1880 |
| Home Town: | New Norfolk, Derwent Valley, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Launceston Ladies College |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 May 1915: | Embarked Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR), Embarked on Mooltan | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement Staff Nurse, Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of William Harper TWELVETREES and Mary Adelaide nee AUSTIN
Her father was a geologist and worked in copper mines in Russia and other mines in Asia Minor.
William Harper Twelvetrees came to Tasmania in 1890 and was a Tasmania Government geologist and he was an eminent pioneering geologist in Tasmania
Educated Launceston Ladies College, Tas.
Appointed Matron of New Norfolk Cottage Hospital, Tas. 1910-1914
Embarked 15 May 1915 per 'Mooltan'
Served in Egypt
Embarked Sydney 20 July 1918 per 'SS Suevic' for Durban, South Africa
Embarked Natal, South Africa per 'Llanstephan Castle' arrived London 22 February 1919
Married George ADAMS 1919 in Lewisham, London
George died 04 August 1920 at Nottingham, England after a severe attack of Malaria.
Miss Edith Twelvetrees has been appointed matron of New Norfolk Cottage Hospital.
The Mercury Saturday 08 October 1910 page 4
Miss Edith Twelvetrees, the first nurse actively to begin the work of the Bush Nursing Association, is of Scotch extraction, but was trained at the Devon Hospital in Tasmania. She was head nurse at the Cobar Hospital,and also at a private hospital at Taree, while for some time she was matron at the New Norfolk Cottage Hospital, Tasmania. Miss Twelvetrees, in addition to her other qualifications, is registered as an obstetric nurse at the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney. According to Miss Gould, formerly matron of the Sydney Hospital, Miss Twelvetrees will proceed to Cooma by train, and travel the remaining 60 miles to Jindabyne by motor coach. At Jindabyne sho will be lodged as close to the police station as possible, so as to enjoy in equal measure the vicinity of the telephone and the paternal care of the law.
The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 22 July 1911 page 13
“At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 – a number of the nurses volunteered for active service for the Empire. The name of those who volunteered are Edith TWELVETREES, Zulu LADE, Rhoda McKENDRICK, Grace TREBILCO, Margaret McKENDRICK, Linda WATSON, Kathleen TURVEY, Laura WHITFIELD, Evelyn SALE, Rose HEATHORN, Kate GRASBY, Nellie GILL.
Their names are shown on the Roll of Honour hanging in the waiting-room of the hospital at the present time.”
Trove – Advocate (Tas) Fri 12 September 1930 pg4
Part of article re History of Devon Hospital, Tasmania