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A Nurses Voyage
Image: Crowds of wellwishers farewell Australian Army Medical Corps personnel who have just embarked on the transport HMT Mooltan at Port Melbourne railway pier.
My grandmother Staff Nurse Emily Browne departed Australia on the 18th of May 1915 with the 3rd Australian General Hospital aboard the HMT Mooltan. She went on to serve at Lemnos, a Greek Island off Gallipoli and later treated Australian soldiers injured on the Western Front.
Emily survived the war and disembarked from London on 25 December 1918 as part of the nursing staff aboard the Takada. She and the others arrived safely back in her homeland on 11 February 1919. Emily was finally discharged from the Army's Nursing staff on 5 April 1919 but continued to care for her boys at Caulfield Repatriation Hospital, where she met her future husband Lance Corporal AR Roberts DCM.
By Bronwyn Hammond
