Lucy Emmeline POWER

POWER, Lucy Emmeline

Service Number: Staff Nurse
Enlisted: 24 November 1915
Last Rank: Staff Nurse
Last Unit: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR)
Born: Dublin, Ireland, date not yet discovered
Home Town: Bridgetown, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Manjimup Hospital, Manjimup, WA, 5 April 1939, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

24 Nov 1915: Enlisted Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR)
18 Dec 1915: Embarked Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR), Embarked on Karoota

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Daughter of J T and Isabel POWER
Of 21 Wesley Road, Rathgan, Dublin, Ireland
​Formerly of 2 Sydmendom Place, Greystone, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Lucy resided at Hampton Street, Bridgetown, WA prior to the war
Enlisted 24 December 1915
Embarked from Australia 24 December 1915
Arrived in the UK 10 February 1916
Posted at Birmingham War Hospital
To 14 General Hospital 04 April 1916
To 35 General Hospital
To H S 'Newhaven" 01 November 1916
Resigning 22 December 1916
To 83 General Hospital Bologne 10 December 1917
"Staff Nurse Power has served under me for a period of 12 months. Her professional ability is up to the standard of her rank. Staff Nruse Power has acted as Sister in Charge of Wards satisfactorily. She is good tempered and works well with those under her: she is suitable for promotion to a higher rank. Saff Nures Power is reliabel, relf relant and energetic. She has worked chiefly in Medical Wards and has also done holiday duty in Oral Wards in a very creditable manner being promt to act in cases of emergency. "
To UK for demobilization 28 January 1919
Residing 21 Wesley Road, Rathgan, Dublin, Ireland with her mother (Isabel POWER)
Returned to Australia by S.S. 'Roda' 02 May 1919
​Demobilized 07 June 1919
Married Harry S SLINGSBY in 1921 in the District of Blackwood, WA
Died 05 April 1939 (suddenly) at Manjimup Hospital
Aged 56 years
​Fond mother of Harry and Bert. Dear sister of Lill, Bell, Maye and Frances

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