Nurse Amy Alice Simpson (Mrs Richard George Cordingley) Address : care of Mrs Walker, Paterson Street, Preston Next of kin : Sister in law, Mrs G. Simpson, Geelong Hospital. Parents Robert and Mary Lily Simpson (nee Sutton) Amy Simpson was just the second woman on our Darebin In Memoriam roll and for all practical purposes, […]
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Raising Fund for the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. To begin with, in November 1915, Linda Davis organised a bazaar and garden party at her home, ‘Moreland Hall’, and managed to secure Senator Pearce, the Minister of Defence, to open it. It was at this event that Senator Pearce spoke about the reason for the establishment of the Glenroy Military Hospital […]
World War 1 Casualty : Robert Herbert Thompson
Robert Herbert Thompson is one of dozens on our Darebin In Memoriam Roll that is not acknowledged on the Australian War Memorial as dying in the service of his country. Most of these were men (and a couple of women) that died immediately post-war, usually in a military facility and almost always as a result […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – nurse Alice Prichard
Portrait of Miss A. M. Prichard RRC, matron of 42nd British General Hospital which was one of the four hospitals at Salonika staffed by the AIF. (Image Courtesy AWM. Image A01891) Alice Prichard hailed from the north of Victoria and had been the Matron of Mildura Hospital prior to enlistment. Her sister Florence also served […]
Patients at the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. Portrait of Isolation Camp, rear of Army Medical Corps Base. Army Medical Corps, Isolation Camp, Ascot vale. C 1916. (Image courtesy Australian War Memorial. Image DAX1070) Once again, the story of the men who were treated at the Glenroy Hospital has begun to emerge from that wonderful online newspaper collection found at […]
Staff of the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. I was interested to know who worked at the Glenroy Military Hospital. Again, it hasn’t been an easy task and it has been soldiers’ attestation papers and newspaper reports that have given me most of my information. It seems that most of the nurses, orderlies and doctors who worked there had yet […]
World War 1 : Nurse Blodwyn Elizabeth WILLIAMS
Sister Blodwyn Elizabeth Williams Address : Brunswick Next of Kin : Father, Tudor Williams, Dowling Street, Ballarat (mother Mrs Elizabeth Williams, nee Jones) Blodwyn Wlliams’ background was almost entirely from Ballarat, although her place of residence when she embarked with Reinforcements for the 2 Australian General Hospital on HMAT Orsava, 17 July, 1915 was shown […]
Life at the Glenroy Military Hospital
By Cheryl Griffin. It’s been slow work given that there are really only newspaper reports to go on, but finally a picture is emerging of what life might have been like at the Glenroy Military Hospital during its eighteen months’ existence. If you look closely at the image of the hospital at ‘Ashleigh’, courtesy Broadmeadows […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – part 2
By Cheryl Griffin. If ever you needed a reminder that there was a class system at work within the military (officers and the ranks), just consider the Glenroy Military Hospital set-up. ‘Ashleigh’ and ‘Sawbridgeworth’ were two Italianate mansions built side by side during the years of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’. As living quarters they were beyond anything […]
Glenroy Military Hospital – part 1
By Cheryl Griffin. The 5th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Victoria), more commonly known as the Glenroy Military Hospital, opened at Glenroy in June 1915 and closed in January 1917. I have also seen it referred to as the Glenroy Measles Hospital, and this was its principal purpose, although the hospital took in pneumonia and tuberculosis cases, […]