Ena Marion Bond
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BOND, Ena Marion
Service no: Staff nurse [1]
Place of birth: Springside, via Orange, 1889
Address: Vaucluse
Occupation: Nurse
Next of kin: Thomas Bond (father), Nundle
Date of enlistment: 5 June 1917
Place of enlistment: N/A
Age at enlistment: 28
Fate: Embarked Kyarra Sydney 3 September 1917. Joined 14th General Hospital Abbassia, Egypt, 20 October 1917. Marched in from Egypt 30 July 1918. Returned to Australia 27 July 1919. Appointment terminated 27 August 1919.
Date of death: 4 July 1986, Canberra
Ena Marion Bond was born in Springside in 1889 to Thomas and Rosina Bond. She enlisted in June 1917 and left Sydney for Egypt three months later, where she served in the 14th General Hospital in Abbassia. Nurse Bond returned to Australia in July 1919.
In August 1922 she married Sydney William Windrim in Hong Kong and the couple settled in Sydney. In October 1923 Ena gave birth to twins. The family later moved to Cootamundra where Sydney was Secretary and CEO of the District Hospital.
An avid golfer, Ena died in Canberra in July 1986, aged 97.
