Violet Claire Lee

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'''Service no:''' Staff nurse [http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/8195281/1]
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'''Service no:''' Staff nurse [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8195281]
'''Place of birth:''' Orange, 1885
'''Place of birth:''' Orange, 1885

Current revision as of 04:50, 7 January 2021

LEE, Violet Claire

Service no: Staff nurse [1]

Place of birth: Orange, 1885

Address: Preston, Park Road, Marrickville

Occupation: Nurse

Next of kin: Christina Agnes Lee (mother), Preston, Park Road, Marrickville

Date of enlistment: 22 August 1917

Place of enlistment: N/A

Age at enlistment: 32

Fate: Embarked A33 Ayreshire Sydney 15 September 1917. Disembarked Suez 27 October 1917. Joined 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, for duty 28 October 1917. Admitted to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia 4 March 1918. Returned to Australia 22 May 1918. Discharged 24 November 1918 due to medical unfitness.


Violet Claire Lee was born in Orange in 1885 to William M Lee and his wife Christina Agnes. She completed her nurse’s training at Forbes Hospital in 1912. In early 1913 Violet resigned, having accepted a position at the Coast Hospital in Sydney. Unfortunately she badly injured her knee and was unable to take up the position in Sydney.

Nurse Lee enlisted in August 1917, embarking from Sydney in September to serve at as a staff nurse in the 27th General Hospital in Abbassia, Egypt. She served for just six months before she was invalided home and admitted to The Pines Private Hospital in Avoca Street, Randwick. Nurse Lee was discharged in November 1918 due to medical unfitness.


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