Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8097647

Reference: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP

Title: Australian ANZACs from the National Archives of Australia

Description: This dataset lists Australian ANZACs - they are people who have personnel files for their service in the Australian Imperial Force (AlF) during the First World War. The personnel files are held by the National Archives of Australia (Archives). The entries in this dataset are linked to their personnel files on the Archives site. There you can find Attestation Papers, Service and Casualty Forms and other miscellaneous military documents and correspondence. Soon you will be able to find additional information from Archives and other sources on the Archives site.

URL: http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/79040
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UPP: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP/26231

Credit: © National Archives of Australia

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ID: 8651818

Title: Portrait photograph of Beatrice Middleton Watson

Description: Object description Beatrice Middleton Watson, Australian Army Nursing Service. Died at Ismalia 02 June 1916. Inscription: Beatrice Middleton Watson who died at Ismailia 2.6.16.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

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ID: 9144653

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/33456

Additional: Matches Beatrice Middleton Watson

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9144664

Reference: fs_australia_births_and_baptisms_1792-1981

Title: Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: R_546318763

Additional: Matches full name, year and place of birth and name of father - this seems to be a Baptism Record.

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 9144669

Reference: au_victoriabirths1836_1913

Title: Victoria Births Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: ANZ/BMD/ACTBIRT/735091

Additional: This says Civil Birth Record, matching full name, year and place of birth.

Credit: © Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages Victoria

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ID: 9144677

Reference: au_aif_embarkation_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: ANZ/AIF/EMBARKATIONROLL/266515

Additional: Matches Staff Nurse Beatrice Middleton Watson

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

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ID: 9144690

Reference: au_aif_nominal_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Nominal Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: ANZ/AIF/NOMINALROLL/298036

Additional: Matches Staff Nurse Middleton Watson - I think it gives an earlier enlistment date.

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

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ID: 9144696

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service

Description: "Beatrice Watson 2 June 1916 Illness Suez, Egypt"

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nurses_who_died_in_World_War_I#Nurses_serving_with_the_Australian_Army_Nursing_Service
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Additional: Matches name and date of death.

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ID: 9144699

Name: Australian War Memorial

Title: Beatrice Middleton Watson

Description: Roll of Honour. Photograph and biographical and service details matching the information in the Life Story.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1668260/
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ID: 9260951

Title: Nurses memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

Description: A Memorial to Voluntary Aid Detachment and Professional Nurses who lost their lives in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, dedicated and unveiled on 4th June 2018 at an event attended by HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, Royal Patron of the Nursing Memorial Appeal. The memorial takes the form of hands cast in bronze holding a globe carrying the names of nurses who lost their lives in service in the two World Wars. Further information about the memorial can be found on the Nursing Memorial Appeal website at www.nursingmemorialappeal.org.uk

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image © 2018 Nursing Memorial Appeal, kindly made available for use on Lives of the First World War.