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Elizabeth Kearey (1882 - 1968)

Lt Colonel Elizabeth Kearey
Born in Sydney, New South Walesmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died at about age 85 in St Leonards, New South Walesmap
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Australia, Wattle

Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1882. She passed away in 1968.

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KEAREY ELIZABETH | 9478/1882 | JAMES | ELLEN | ST LEONARDS

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Sydney: sailed 28 November 1914 aboard HMAT Kyarra - (AWM photo)
1914-1915 Star
1914-1915 Star
AIF Attestation p.47
Personnel of Nurses' Coronation Party. [1] Melbourne
Feb. 12. (1937,) -The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) announced today the names of six returned army nurses who will form part of the services coronation contingent.
The nurses selected are as follows:
Queensland (1st Military District): Miss Grace Margaret Wilson, matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service.
New South Wales (2nd Military District): Miss Elizabeth Kearey.
Victoria (4th Military District): Miss Elizabeth Anne Dowsley.
South Australia (4th Military District): Miss Janet Sinclair Wood.
Western Australia (5th Military District): Miss Janet McDonald.
Tasmania (6th Military District): Miss Muriel Folder.
Miss Kearey was born at North Sydney in 1885. She served in Egypt with No. 2 Australian General Hospital and toward the close of the war was attached to No. 7 Sea Transport Section.
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Outdoor group portrait No2 AGH November 1914- AWM H18334
Group portrait of sisters c1921 - AWM P10122.004
Principal Matron for NSW August 1940 - AWM 002481
Lady Gowrie, chats with; October 1940 - AWM 003433
World War One Nurses - via Dr Kirsty Harris historian

Sources

  1. THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT. (1937, February 13). The West Australian
    (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 18. Retrieved May 3, 2023
    (King George VI Coronation)
KEAREY, Elizabeth Sister AANS




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