Book of Remembrance entry
Janet Ella Radcliffe's name appears on the University of Tasmania Honour Board. One of the first military nurses to leave Tasmania for the war on the Geelong, she served in Egypt at Mena Hospital, Luna Park, and Ismalia during the Turkish attack on the canal in January 1915. For 12 months she served in the Mediterranean on the hospital ships Sicilia and Grantully Castle. She was present off Cape Helles at the landing on Gallipoli and later served at Harefield and Brighton hospitals, England and Abbeville, France with the 1st Australian Casuality Clearing Station. She was discharged medically unfit in November 1919 and returned to Australia.
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1887Birth in Hobart -- TAS, Australia 1887
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1901Tertiary education at University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia 1901
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1909Early education at Girl's High School, Hobart, TAS, Australia 1909
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1909Nurse at Hobart -- TAS, Australia 1909
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1914Military service 26 August 1914
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1914Military service 26 September 1914
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1919Military service 21 November 1919
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1922Death in Melbourne -- VIC, Australia 30 November 1922
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