VICARS-FOOTE, Eveline Mary
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 16 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) |
| Born: | Dunolly, Vic., 6 February 1885 |
| Home Town: | Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nursing Sister |
| Died: | Windsor, Vic., September 1976, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Thomas Simmons Lawn |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 May 1915: | Embarked Staff Nurse, embarked on Mooltan | |
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| 16 May 1915: | Enlisted Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) | |
| 22 Oct 1917: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
| 30 Oct 1917: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Oct 1917: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Daughter of Richard VICARS-FOOTE and Jane nee ROBINSON
Of Bank of Victoria, Geelong, Vic.
Aged 32 years
Trained at Warranambool Hospital
Left for UK at own expense to nurse with QAIMNSR
Enlisted 16 May 1915
Served in Egypt
Appointed to No 21 General Hospital
'Miss Evelyn Mary VICARS-FOOTE has worked in this hospital since 01 September 1915. During that time I have found her reliable, quick, willing and an excellent nurse. For some months she had charge of a ward. She kept an excellent tone and it was well managed. She is suitable to be further employed in the Army Nursing Service.'
Appointment terminated 16 May 1917
Returned to Australia from Egypt 12 June 1917 per 'Mongolia' which hit a mine & sunk in the Indian Ocean
The P&O SS Mongolia was sunk off Bombay by a mine laid (by) the German Raider ‘Wolf’ on 23/6/1917, 24 were lost.
Married Clarence Stuart McLEOD on the 28th June 1923 at Christ Church in South Yarra
Among the nurses who will shortly be leaving Melbourne for the front is Miss Vicars Foote third daughter of Maior R. Vicars-Foote, of Warrnambool. Miss Foote was trained at the local Hospital. She has entered the Royal Army Medical Service Corps. and expects to be engaged in one of the Home Hospitals until her services are required at the front. Major Foote is also supplying a son - Ernest - for active service. He is at Broadmeadows and anticipates sailing in a few days.
Warnambool Standard Friday 07 May 1915 page 4
Staff-Nurse E. Vicars Foote was among the passengers on the Mongolia, and she was landed with the large party on the Island of Tangiers and taken subsequently to Bombay in a mine sweeper. When on the island it was found that many of the men were severely burned and otherwise injured, and impromptu bandages were made from under-garments, thereby depleting their already scant wardrobe .Nurse Vicars-Foote has been nursing at Gallipoli and in Egypt, having left Australia over two years ago. The Mongolia was the sixteenth vessel she bad been on since leaving for Australia. Included in her loss by the wreck are two trunks of curios and mementoes collected during the last two eventful years.
The Advertiser Monday 23 July 1917 page 10
McLEOD – VICARS-FOOTE – On the 28th June, at Christ Church, South Yarra, by Rev F.E. Lewin, of Sunbury, Clarence Stuart, youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs D.J. McLeod, of Auckland, NZ, to Eveline Mary, third daughter of Major and the late Mrs R. Vicars-Foote, of Ashe grove, Toorak. (Present address, Hammond road, Dandenong)
The Argus Monday 17 September 1923
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