Connection to the Hunter Valley – Sister Leila Godfrey’s family home at time of enlistment was The Cottage, King Street, East Maitland

Training and experience – trained Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, passed examination for membership of the Australian Trained Nurses’ Association in 1916.

Service – Australian  Army Nursing Service (AANS)

Service location – UK and Salonika

Click here to read about an incident involving Leila Godfrey at 50th British General Hospital, Salonika, Christmas 1918.

Medals – British War Medal and Victory Medal

References:

National Archives of Australia B2455 GODFREY L B

Nominal Roll of the First AIF Australian War Memorial (AWM)  AWM133, 20-014

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

Sydney Morning Herald, 23 December 1916, p.13, retrieved from Trove 1 November 2012; May 1928, p.9, retrieved from Trove 30 August 2011

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© Christine Bramble 2013