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Daughter of William Thomas NYE and Elizabeth Martha nee SWAIN
'Clermont' Merthyn Road, New Farm, Brisbane, Qld.
Resided Buderim Mountains, North Coast Line, Qld.
NOK E W NYE (Aunt)
Of 72 Melody Road, Wandsworth, London
Embarked from Australia 04 April 915
Arrived in K 25 May 1915
Joined QAIMNSR 26 June 1915
Embarked for France 26 June 1915
Posted to No 3 General Hospital 26 June 1915
'During the time, 3 months Miss Nye had been on duty in this hospital, she has proved herself a very capable, reliable, punctual and conscientious Nurse.  She has not had charge of award except during the Sisters off duty time, then she arranged her work well and kept good discipline.'
Transferred to No 4 Casualty Clearing Station 08 December 1915
'Miss Nye is a very capable and conscientious nurse.'
No 3 General Hospital 13 September 1916
Transferred to Italy for duty 14 November 1917
Transferred to Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield 27 April 1919 pending repatriation
Embarked for Australia 21 May 1919 per 'Osterley
Demobilized 26 June 1919
Resided Buderim Mountains, North Coast Line Qld. October 1919

Four years later Gertrude returned to England and married Alexander Edmund Knox from Wandsworth, Surrey in the months between January and March. The couple married in India and had two children, Bruce and Diana. Six years after marrying Gertrude, Alexander fell of a horse, got a thrombosis and died on the 27th of April, 1929 in England. Gertrude then returned to Australia with her two children and moved to 183 Gregory Terrace, Paddington, Brisbane. Her son Bruce lived with her from 1947 to 1949 as he was a student studying engineering at a university in Brisbane. In 1945 Gertrude was still alone in Paddington, Brisbane.
Gertrude Knox died whilst living in Auchenflower in Brisbane in the late 1960s, early 1970s.

Return of Sister Nye.  

Sister Nye, sister of Dr. Nye, of Atherton, arrived in Cairns last week, on a visit to her brother, and left yesterday morning for Atherton. Sister Nye was a member of the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing  Reserve and saw service in France from the earliest days of the war. She was also attached to British medical units in Italy. Sister Nye will remain in the'-district a short while, and will then return, to her home, at Buderim, on the Brisbane-Gympie line. In company with her brother she paid a visit to the Rest-Home, Cairns on Sunday.

Cairns Post Tuesday 30 September 1919 page 4