Rose Morton Macanene

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MACANENE, Rose Morton

Service no: Nurse [1]

Place of birth: Kiama, 1878

Address: Camden

Occupation: Trained nurse

Next of kin: Kathaline Morton Macanene (sister), Bodington, Wentworth Falls

Date of enlistment: 2 September 1916

Place of enlistment: London, England

Age at enlistment: 31

Fate: Embarked Kaiser-i-Hind Sydney 9 December 1916. Disembarked Suez 10 January 1917. Proceeded to France 8 February 1917. Promoted to Sister 29 December 1918. Returned to Australia 2 February 1920. Appointment terminated 18 March 1920.

Date of death: 31 October 1952 at her home, Greenheys in Wentworth Falls

Buried: Cremated

Rose Macanene, was born in Kiama in 1878, the daughter of Henry and Catherine Macanene. Both Rose and her sister Kathaline were nurses, with Rose completing her training at Orange District Hospital. Following her enlistment in September 1916 Rose served in England, Egypt and France, where she nursed in Rouen, Wimereux and Abbéville.

She remained in France for a while after the cessation of hostilities then signed up for a three-month course at the British School of Cookery in Regent Street, London, where she learnt the finer points of cookery, laundry work and housecraft. Nurse Macanene returned Australia in February 1920.

• Edwards, Elisabeth 2011, In sickness and in health: how medicine helped shape Orange's history, Orange City Council, Orange, NSW