RED CROSS & NURSES

Staff Nurse Frances Mary Byron MacKellar, (AANS), of Maryborough. Enlisted on 19 May 1917, embarked from Sydney, aboard RMS Khiva on 26 May 1917. Posted to the 34th Welsh General Hospital at Deolali, India, 160 miles from Bombay. In Jan 1919 she travelled to England, where she was attached to No 3 (AAH) Dartford, established to treat 'shell shock' and similar cases. MacKellar was promoted to rank of Sister in June 1919, and returned to Australia aboard SS Runic on 20 Dec 1919. (AWM)
Red Cross Society in Biggenden 1918 (SLQ)



Red Cross workers, Maryborough, Qld during the First World War (SLQ)


Gin Gin Red Cross 1918
Christensen's of Tiaro Sister V Christensen





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