Emily Rebecca Mary Parsons

Submitted by wollongongcityl... on Wed, 14/05/2014 - 12:49

First Name:

Emily

Middle Name:

Rebecca Mary

Last Name:

Parsons

Father's Name:

Alfred Thomas Parsons

Date Enlisted:

Friday, September 1, 1916

Rank at Enlistment:

Staff Nurse

Service:

Australian Nursing Service

Awards:

British War Medal

Greek Medal for Military Merit

Victory Medal

Details:

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.

Sources:

Australian War Memorial, First World War Embarkation Rolls – Emily Rebecca Mary Parsons, Australian War Memorial Canberra, 2013, http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/nominal_rolls/first_world_war_embarkation/person/R2051466/, viewed 20 November 201

Australian War Memorial, Honours and Awards – Emily Rebecca Mary Parsons, Australian War Memorial Canberra, 2013, http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/honours_and_awards/person/R1536302/?roll_type=Awards, viewed 20 November 2013

NAA: B2455, PARSONS EMILY REBECCA MARY