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Daughter of Jefferson Pickman & Jourdiana Maria STOW nee BRODIE of 240 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide, SA

Educated Mount Gambier College, SA
Trained at North Adelaide Hospital July 1902 to 1906
Resigned 1908
Private nursing in Australia 1908-1912
General Private Nurses Staff St. Luke's Hospital Chigago, February 1913 - April 1914 
Petwood Hospital for wounded Soldiers August 1914 - July 1915
Appointed to QAIMNSR 27 August 1915
Served at Gallipoli 27 August 1915 to 11 March 1916
Served in France at -
18 General Hospital 12 March 1916
Abbeville 16 November 1916
8 General Hospital 27 November 1916
62 Casualty Clearing Station 05 February 1918
Admitted to 10 Stationary Hospital with Bronchitis 06 March 1918
Duty 10 Stationary Hospital 20 March 1918
To Nurses House, Moulle 27 May 1918
10 Stationary Hospital 06 July 1918
Nurses House, Moulle 04 October 1918
10 Stationary Hospital 14 October 1918
25 Stationary Hospital 24 December 1918
Admitted 14 General Hospital 06 March 1919 with Frontal Sinusitis
To England for duty 04 March 1919
Not returning to France
Termination of Service 17 July 1919
Served 3 years and 9 months
Did not marry

Sister Roselind R. Stow (Miss Linda Stow) left England by the Katoomba on July 20 for this State. More than seven years has elapsed since Miss Stow left South Australia on the Norwegian barque Vivi. Happening to be in London when England declared war on Germany, she offered her services as a nurse to the British Red Cross, but soon afterwards she applied to the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Sisters Reserve, and was immediately offered a position as charge nurse in a military hospital in Lincoln. Later she spent six interesting months' service on a British hospital ship on the Mediterranean Sea daring the Gallipoli campaign.  Then came two and a half years' activity in France, during which Miss Stow performed splendid work until the end of the war. 

The Register Wednesday 23 July 1919 page 6

Sister Linda Stow is to return in August, having served as a nursing sister throughout the war. In England when war was declared she at once enlisted with the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Sisters Reserve, and was in charge of a military hospital in Lincoln. She was afterwards for six months on the hospital ship Karapara in the Mediterranean. In France she had an experience of bombing at St. Omer, and for conspicuous courage at the time was mentioned in despatches by Sir Douglas Haig. Miss Stow is a daughter of the late Hr. J. Stow, and niece of the late Air. Justice Stow, of Adelaide.

The Australasian Melbourne Saturday 2 August 1919 page 42

Sister Linda Stow, an old Mount Gambier girl, who enlisted as a war nurse as soon as war broke out, being in England at the time, and she spent the whole of the five and a half years of war on active service with the troops.
Her first experiences of active service were gained on hospital ships carrying wounded from Gallipoli.  Then in Egypt and France.  It was against military law for a woman to land on Gallipoli, but Sister Stow managed on one occasion to set her foot on the little jetty at the landing.  During the course of her remarks she carried her audience over the various scenes of the conflict in France and Belgium and described some of her personal experiences many of which were of a thrilling character, as on more than one occasion she was present in a hospital that was bombed by the enemy.

Border Watch Tuesday 04 November 1919 page 2

Sister Rosalind Stow, daughter of the late Mr. Jefferson Stow, who will be charge nurse at the Anne Hostel at Glenelg, has an excellent record of five years' war service with the R.A.M.C. She was in England when war broke out, end  joined up immediately.

The Register Adelaide Saturday 24 January 1920 page 6