Connection to the Hunter Valley – Sister Dorothy Mary Feneley was born at Allynbrook and was living in West Maitland before enlisting

Training and experience – Dorothy graduated from St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. She passed the examination for membership of the Australian Trained Nurses’ Association (ATNA) in 1915.

Service – Australian  Army Nursing Service (AANS)

Service location – Salonika

Medals – British War Medal and Victory Medal

References:

National Archives of Australia B2455 FENELEY D M

Nominal Roll of the First AIF Australian War Memorial (AWM) AWM133, 16-114 (‘Fenneley’)

Embarkation Roll of the First AIF AWM Nurses (July 1915 – November 1918)

Sydney Morning Herald, 18 June 1915, p.4 retrieved from Trove 5 August 2010 (Dorothy “Fennelly”)

Newcastle Morning Herald, 2 October 1919, p.6

Maitland Mercury, 18 August 1919, p.2

Australasian Nurses’ Journal, Vol XIII No 7 July 1915, p.234

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© Christine Bramble 2013