BUCKHAM, Jane Binnie Moorehad
| Service Number: | Sister |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) |
| Born: | Edinburgh, Scotland, December 1876 |
| Home Town: | Canterbury, Boroondara, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Home Schooled and Northcote Public School |
| Occupation: | Nursing Sister |
| Died: | Private Hospital, 5 December 1955, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria P 163 0024 |
| Memorials: | Geelong Hospital Members of Staff Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Sister, Sister, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement Sister, Australian Volunteer Hospital |
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NOK Rev. Canon BINNIE (Cousin) of St. Asaph's, 50 Bristol Street, Birmingham, England
Residing 22 High Street, Marylebone, London W
Educated at home and at Northcote Public School, Melbourne
Trained at Geelong Public Hospital, Vic. May 1907 - October 1910
Sister at Infants Hospital and Womens Hospital Melbourne followed by private nursing at Princess Christians Traned Nurses, Windsor, England the with the Australian Voluntary Hospital Aug 1914 - June 1916
Transferred from the Australian Voluntary Hospital to QAIMNSR 01 July 1916
Served at 32 Stationay Hospital, 32 Casualty Clearing Station, 10 Stationary Hospital, 18 Casualty Clearing Station, 58 Casualty Clearing Station, 11 Casualty Clearing Station, 41 Stationary Hospital.
"A most valuable Sister, her care of her patients, and management of her Division are both excellent"
Demobilised 30 April 1919
Resided 30 Talbot Avenue, Canterbury, Melbourne Vic. 1919
Resided St. Annes Trained Nurses Home, 16 William Street, South Yarrow, Melbourne, Vic. in 1920
Awarded Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 4 October 1917
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2627, position 43
Date of London Gazette: 4 June 1917
Location in London Gazette: Page 5487, position 1
In the list of Military Honors published in Wednesday's Melbourne papers appears the name of Sister Jean Buckham, who has been awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal. Sister Buckham is a native of Victoria and received her trainng at Geelong and was a co trainee of Mrs. Herbert W. Cutts,
of Irymple. She started her military nursing with Lady Dudley's Voluntary Corps and is at present on the Imperial Reserve of Nurses.
The Mildura Cultivator Saturday 09 June 1917 page 10
After spending a holiday in South Africa, Miss J. B. Buckham. R.R.C. of Melbourne, is returning home by the steamer Euripides, which arrived at the Outer Harbour on Friday. Throughout the war she served in the Queen Alexandria Imperial Military Nursing Reserve.
The Advertiser Adelaide Saturday 6 July 1929 page 17
BUCKHAM.—On December 5, at a private hospital, Jane Binnie Morehead, loved aunt of Jeanette Buckham, late sister, Q.A.N.S., R.A.C.
BUCKHAM.—The Funeral of the lato Sister JANE BINNIE MOREHEAD BUCKHAM. R.A.O., Will leave Le Pine's funeral parlors, Canterbury road, Canterbury, TOMORROW (Wednesday), after a service commencing at 3.15 p.m., for the Box Hill Cemetery. LE PINE & SON PTY. LTD.
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