TAMKIN, Alice May
| Service Number: | Sister |
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| Enlisted: | 4 July 1915, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Edinburgh, Scotland, 1875 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | 3 July 1949, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jul 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sydney, NSW | |
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| 31 Jul 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 31 Jul 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), RMS Orontes, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Samuel TAMKIN and Mary nee JARMAN
Did not marry
LIFE IN CHINA.
A CITY OF CONTRASTS.
The following is an extract from a letter written by Sister A. M. Tamkin, ex-A.I.F., of Sydney, and now a community nurse in China, to Sister A. M. Hayes, ex-A.I.F., of Thornleigh, Sydney:—"I am a community nurse for a syndicate, in Chiaotso, looking after Europeans. Chiaotso is right in the interior, 20 miles north of the Yellow River. We have some Chinese soldiers guarding us from raids by bandits, though our real help would be our 12 Sikhs, should any occasion arise for us to need protection. The natives round here, however, give very little trouble on the whole, the bandits usually keeping to the south side of the river. From Pekin it takes 21 hours to Chiaotso by train, and there are only two trains a week that are safe for foreigners to travel in. There area bout 60 foreigners in this community, including children. The greatest blessing is a club, which women use as much as the men. There is very little music in Chiaotso, but in Pekin I was playing with an orchestra of 30 performers, an amateur affair connected with the Institute of Fine Arts. There were British, American, Danish, Chinese, Austrian, and Russian performers, and we have some rather good concerts. Before I was in Pekin I nursed for a whole summer in Peitaiho, and prior to that in Tientsin. Pekin is a filthy but fascinating town, dirt and beauty abounding equally on both sides. Where else would you find streets thick with dust from motor cars, camel trains, donkeys, horses, mules, rickshaws, Pekin carts (weird and springless),carriages, and pedestrians, with pedlars and barbers and all sorts of extraordinary characters plying their trades by the way?"
Sydney Morning Herald Monday 15 September 1924 page 10
TAMKIN, Alice May - July 3, late sister, A.A.N.S., 1914-18, of A.T.N.A. House, 18 Whitton Road, Chatswood, aged 72 years.
Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 5 July 1949 page 12