WHEELER, Katherine Florence
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 21 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Nursing Sister |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | South Australia, 4 August 1879 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 30 January 1965, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia Ashes placed into family grave at Fremantle Cemetery - Anglican - Section Mon AA |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Nov 1914: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital | |
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| 9 Jun 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital, per HT Kyarra | |
| 1 Feb 1918: | Promoted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Nursing Sister, 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, HAREFIELD, Rouen, France | |
| 19 Nov 1918: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Nursing Sister, 1st Australian General Hospital, per D24 HT Sardinia | |
| 6 Feb 1920: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Nursing Sister, 1st Australian General Hospital | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Nursing Sister |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Kate, born in South Australia, was a Registered Nurse working in Western Australia from the early 1900's - at Perth Public Hospital, Coolgardie Sanatorium, Ravensthorpe Hospital (as Matron) and as a Midwife in Perth before enlisting in the Australian Army Nursing Service on 13 January 1914. Kate embarked from Australia on 21 November 1914, serving in Rouen, France at 1 Australian General Hospital and No 2 Stationery Hospital, and on Transport Duty (HF Kuara). Kate was Discharged on 6 February 1920 in Victoria, and returned to Fremantle, WA where she married John James Broomhall (born 1861 in Fremantle, WA) in 1922. James was a Customs Officer at Fremantle, and a Justice of the Peace, and in 1890 had served as Mayor of Roebourne, WA.
Kate and James lived at Greenmount in WA until James' death in 1933. Kate moved to Perth, WA where she died in 1965.