TWYNAM, Alice Joan
| Service Number: | Sister |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 21 September 1914, Cairo, Egypt |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF |
| Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 9 October 1882 |
| Home Town: | Double Bay, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nursing Sister |
| Died: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 26 September 1967, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Taralga War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Sep 1914: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Sister, Sister, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Cairo, Egypt | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement 1st Infantry Brigade Headquarters, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: Name recorded on original as "J. Twynam" | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked 1st Infantry Brigade Headquarters, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 28 Nov 1914: | Involvement 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: 'Remarks on roll: Embarked on Euripides, 20/10/14.' | |
| 28 Nov 1914: | Embarked 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Edward TWYNAM and Emily Rose nee BOLTON
Did not marry
Mentioned in despatches
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 21 September 1916
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 2624, position 44
Date of London Gazette: 21 June 1916
Location in London Gazette: Page 6184, position 36
Awarded Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 15 September 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1372, position 4
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 6840, position 4
"Untiring devotion to duty. Has served for 4 years in Egypt and France, and did valuable work at a C.C.S. during a very busy period."
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From WOMEN OF THE GREAT WAR, Paul Simadas
Sister Alice Joan Twynam,
Royal Red Cross (1st Class)
Alice’s RRC was gazetted in 1919 and was presented to her in her home-state of NSW a year later. Her other awards are, a Mention in Despatches, the 1914–1915 Star (for service at Gallipoli at Lemnos), the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Sister Twynam saw extensive war service and developed a practical expertise in clinical care.
The RRC award, in two classes, was then made to a fully trained nurse of an officially recognised nursing service, military or civilian, without restriction to rank who have:
“shown exceptional devotion or competency in performance of nursing duties with the Army in the field, or in Naval and Military or Air Force hospitals or in an Auxiliary War hospital over a continuous or long period or who has performed some exceptional act of bravery or devotion to the post of duty.”
Alice’s remarkable life is documented in research by the expert on Australian nurses of the Great War, ‘Frev’ Ford, and listed in the National Archives of Australia:
https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/375857
Credit: Twynam family archives.
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