Naomi Higman

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HIGMAN, Naomi

Service no: Staff nurse [1]

Place of birth: Orange, 13 October 1891

Address: Kangaroo Point, QLD, later c/- Mrs C. Gorman, Molong Road, Orange

Occupation: Nurse

Next of kin: Ann Jane Higman (mother), Kia-ora, Wondai, QLD

Date of enlistment: 7 October 1918

Place of enlistment: Brisbane

Age at enlistment: 27

Fate: Embarked SS Wyreema Sydney 14 October 1918. Disembarked Fremantle for duty at quarantine station 10 December 1918. Appointment terminated Brisbane 23 April 1919.

Naomi Higman was born in Orange in October 1891 to Edward Alfred Higman and his wife Ann Jane. She was the second born of three girls; a son, Walter, was born in 1896.

Naomi’s father, Edward, was the brother of Walter Higman, proprietor of the Empire Picture Company in Lords Place. Edward, Ann and their four children later moved from Orange to Wondai in southern Queensland, where Ann operated Nurse Higman’s Private Hospital and Naomi and her sister completed their nursing training.

Naomi enlisted in Brisbane on 7 October 1918 and embarked the following week from Sydney. She disembarked at Fremantle, WA, where she served at the quarantine station.

Nurse Higman’s appointment was terminated in Brisbane in April 1919 and she returned to Wondai, where she and her family were supporters of The Red Cross Society and the Ambulance Brigade.

Naomi’s brother, Walter Arthur Horace Higman served as a Corporal with the 14th Regiment of the 9th Battalion. He died of wounds received in Belgium in June 1917.