Amy (Curtis) Fiaschi (1886 - 1964)

Born 1886 in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

Wife of Tommaso Henry Fiaschi DSO VD MD — married 19 Aug 1914 in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia

Died 1964 at about age 78 in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Amy Curtis was born in 1886 at Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. She was the fifth and youngest daughter of William Curtis and Mary Boreham.^[1] Amy became a nurse.

Amy (Curtis) Fiaschi is an Anzac who served in World War One.

Amy enlisted on 5th May 1915 as a Sister in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was posted to the 3rd Australian General Hospital (3rd AGH) and travelled to Mebourne to meet other nursing staff and board the transport for England. She kept secret the fact that she was married to the commanding officer of 3rd AGH! She served on Lemnos Island in the Aegean Sea, one of three tented hospitals treating wounded from nearby Gallipoli. After the evacuation of the peninsula the hospital re-located to Alexandria, Egypt. By then, the 'word was out' about her marriage and it was time to be delivered of her first child! Fellow 3rd AGH nursing sister, Anne Donnell, being a trained midwife, was tasked with the birth of the baby girl, which happened on 11th September 1915. A second daughter, unnamed, was born and died in 1916. During their voyage home in 1917, Amy gave birth to a third daughter, Giulia, who passed away after arrival in Sydney at just a few weeks of age.

Thomas passed away in 1927, but not before he was virtually a household name in New South Wales and the owner of Tizzano Wineries. Amy continued to care for their two surviving daughters, then aged twelve and eight years: Eliza and Olivia.

Amy passed away in 1964 at North Sydney, New South Wales.^[3] She was survived by Eliza Vickery and Olivia McCarthy.

Sources

1. ↑ Queensland Birth Index #C451/1886
2. ↑ Queensland Marriage Index #C252/1914
3. ↑ New South Wales Death Index #14646/1964

• De Vries, Susanna. Australian Heroines of World War One. Pirgos Press, Chapel Hill QLD, 2013.

• Personal collection of events witnessed by Joan Lewis

• Curtis-Fiaschi, In tracing her detail I have read the Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 8 [MUP] 1981 by G.P. Walsh.

• Curtis-Fiaschi, World War One records consisting of twenty-two open pages for Amy ;

• Fiaschi- Ref- Fifteen open pages for her husband Doctor T. H. Fiaschi; all with National Archives Australia, [NAA].

• Curtis-Fiaschi, Google has more.

• The story above covers most of the high lights. I hesitate in adding anything further.

• Curtis-Fiaschi, I will add nurse with Australian Red Cross; with Italian Red Cross; note able career retiring as Matron-in- Chief.

• Buried Waverley cemetery original [Ref W5-CE-SP-14] with her husband

• Fiaschi, Up dated to Find a Grave MEM ID 218697905.