SHEPHERD, Muriel Helen
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 1 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital - WW1 |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 December 1888 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 2 November 1963, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Hobart Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Oct 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 1st Australian General Hospital | |
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| 12 Nov 1915: | Involvement 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Nov 1915: | Embarked 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne | |
| 19 Dec 1917: | Transferred Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, France | |
| 23 Aug 1918: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital - WW1, per D 21 Medic | |
| 5 Mar 1919: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital - WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Muriel was the fourth of seven children of Louis Nathan Shepherd (born 1841 in London, England) and second wife Helen Lillian Barr Wilson (born 1860 at McCullums Creek in Craigie, Victoria. Louis, a Teacher in Melbourne, Victoria married Helen in 1910. Following his death in 1911 Helen moved to Penguin in Tasmania.
Muriel was a Nurse in Hobart, Tasmania when she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1916. Muriel served as a Staff Nurse in London, Egypt and France and was Discharged in 1919. Brothers Ernest Victor (Private, Service No:588) and Lewis Norman (Private, Service No:5229) were KiA in WWI. Husband Harold James Copley (Major) served in WWI and WWII, and daughter Fay Muriel Copley (Lance Corporal, Service No:SX26944) served in WWII. Son-in-Law David Hyde (Ordinary Seaman, Service No:27004) and Brother-in-Law George Allen Mainwaring (Private: Service No:2293/ Staff Sergeant, Service No:T41954) served in WWI and WWII.
Returning from WWI, Muriel married Harold James Copley (born 1887 in Adelaide, South Australia) in Penguin, Tasmania in 1919. Muriel and Harold moved to Adelaide, South Australia where Harold worked in the Stock and Station business - as a Superintendant of the Stock Department of Elder, Smith and Co. In 1938 Harold was awarded an OBE (Volunteer Officers' Decoration).
Muriel died in 1963 and Harold in 1947.
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