Emily Rebecca Mary Parsons
Emily Mary Parsons was born in Sydney; she lived in Wollongong after the war. Her father was Alfred Thomas Parsons. She enlisted on 1 September 1916 as a ‘Field Nurse (AANS)’ at the age of 26 and embarked on 9 December 1916 from Sydney on the ship, SS Kaiser-i-Hind. With prior training in nursing, she was stationed in a numbers of places such as Egypt in 1914 and then at the 50th General Hospital Salonika, Greece from late 1914 to 1918.
Nurse Parsons returned on SS Alexandra Woermann sometime between May and July, 1919.
She received a Greek Medal for Military Merit and has been listed in the London and Australian Gazette. Honours and awards were given in recognition of gallant or distinguished conduct of service.
Family members have generously shared a twenty-page book of drawings contributed by various patients and staff at the 50th General Hospital, Salonika, Greece.