Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8131508

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/15642
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UPP: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP/60090

Credit: © National Archives of Australia

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ID: 8448508

Title: Taken from the Australian War Memorial, with thanks

Description: In uniform

Connected by: Sue54478

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1669130/
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ID: 8448522

Title: Taken from the Australian War Memorial

Description: In uniform

Connected by: Sue54478

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ID: 8448524

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Sue54478

UPP: BMD/D/1918/4/AZ/001121/100

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9144641

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service

Description: Jean Miles-Walker 30 October 1918 Pneumonia Sutton Veny, England[

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, date and place of death.

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ID: 9249917

Name: QARANC

Title: Matron Jean Miles Walker

Description: Photograph of headstone - name is not double barrelled.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.qaranc.co.uk/Matron-Jean-Miles-Walker-Australian-Army-Nursing-Service.php
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Additional: Matches name but it is not double barrelled.

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ID: 9249921

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/1918/4/AZ/001749/082

Additional: Matches name, year of birth. year and quarter of death with name not double barrelled.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9249929

Reference: au_aif_embarkation_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: ANZ/AIF/EMBARKATIONROLL/268232

Additional: Matches name in the form of Jean Miles Walker

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

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ID: 9249932

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/302147

Additional: Matches name in the form of Jean Miles Walker and date of death.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9249962

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Jean Nellie Miles Walker

Description: Jean Nellie Miles Walker (16 November 1878 — 30 October 1918)

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Nellie_Miles_Walker
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Additional: Matches name in the form of Jean Nellie Miles Walker and matches date of death.

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ID: 9249982

Name: Jan Bassett published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, (MUP), 1990

Title: Walker, Jean Nellie Miles (1878–1918)

Description: Biography in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/walker-jean-nellie-miles-8957
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Additional: Matches name in the form of Jean Nellie Miles Walker and years of birth and death.

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ID: 9249987

Name: Australian War Memorial

Title: Jean Nellie Miles Walker

Description: Matches military rank of Matron and name in the form of Jean Nellie Miles Walker.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1509252/
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Additional: Matches military rank of Matron and name in the form of Jean Nellie Miles Walker.

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ID: 9252869

Name: Tasmania, Civil Registration, database with images (familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-29QC)

Title: Birth registration

Description: Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration; Name: Jean Nellie Walker; Event Type: Birth; Event Date: 16 Nov 1878; Event Place: Port Sorell, Tasmania, Australia; Registration Date: 1878; Gender: Female; Father's Name: Alfred Miles Walker; Mother's Name: Wilkinson Louisa Mary G Walker;

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27M-29QC
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Additional: The name Nellie is included on a few pages in her service records, but had been crossed out. She signed herself in those records as Jean Miles-Walker.

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ID: 9260953

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.

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ID: 9460296

Title: Jean Miles Walker [Find a Grave]

Description: Incl. photo of her original wooden cross grave marker and stone CWGC headstone - St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Sutton Veny, Wiltshire

Connected by: R58235

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91020048/jean-miles-walker
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ID: 9460390

Title: LONDON GAZETTE, 1 JANUARY, 1917 - Royal Red Cross, 1st Class

Description: The undermentioned Ladies are awarded the decoration of the Royal Red Cross, in recognition of their valuable services with the Armies in the Field :— ... AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE. Royal Red Cross, 1st Class. Matrons ... Miss J. N. Miles Walker

Connected by: R58235

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29886/supplement/47
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ID: 9460422

Title: LONDON GAZETTE, 1 DECEMBER, 1916 - Mentioned in Despatches

Description: General Headquarters, 13th, October, 1916. SIR,— .In accordance with the final paragraph of my Despatch dated 1st October, 1916, I have the honour to submit herewith the list of Offi- cers and others whose services I desire to bring .particularly to your attention. I have the honour to be, Your most obedient Servant, A. J. MURRAY, General, Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force ... Australian Nursing Service. Walker, Matron Miss J. N. M.

Connected by: R58235

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29845/supplement/11808
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