Tranter, Elsie May (Staff Nurse, AANS, b.1885 - d.1968) Accession Number: 3DRL/4081(A)

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Collection relating to the First World War service of Staff Nurse Elsie May Tranter. Collection consists of a photocopied diary covering military service in Australia, England and France. Diary entries are detailed and lengthy, but not all pages have been used, so some page number appear to be missing.

Nurse Tranter served from August 1916 to November 1919 in both England and France. Elsie Tranter married her sweetheart, Sergeant William Gordon Cumming who served with 3 Australian General Hospital, and they lived together in Launceston Tasmania after the war.

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Accession Number
3DRL/4081(A)
Maker
Sister Elsie May Tranter
Classification
Private Record
Object Type
Diary
Measurement
Archived measurement
Whole/Part
Collection
Item Count
1
Access
Open
Copying Provisions
Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Provenance
AWM315 419/022/021
Copyright
Unlicensed copyright

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