REDMAN, Elsie May
| Service Numbers: | QX40950, Q142204 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Traralgon, Victoria , 24 December 1918 |
| Home Town: | Stratford, Wellington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Registered Nurse |
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World War 2 Service
| 13 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, QX40950 | |
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| 13 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Lieutenant, Q142204, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps (post WW2) | |
| 14 Mar 1942: | Involvement Lieutenant, Q142204, General Hospitals - WW2, Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces, Date to be confirmed. Assignment to a unit would have been preceded by an initial training and orientation course for Specialist Service Officers. | |
| 7 Jan 1944: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), 2nd/4th Australian General Hospital | |
| 13 May 1945: | Involvement Lieutenant, Q142204, Borneo - Operation Oboe July - August 1945, Served on the Australian Army Hospital Ship Wanganella. | |
| 18 Jul 1946: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), General Hospitals - WW2 | |
| 23 Dec 1946: | Discharged Lieutenant, QX40950, 2nd/4th Australian General Hospital, Her nominal roll record cites 2nd/4th General Hospital at discharge | |
| 23 Dec 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, QX40950 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Elsie May Redman was a Registered Nurse when she enlisted in the Australian Army on 13 March 1942
Lieutenant Redman was initially enlisted into the Militia or CMF with a service number Q142204. She served initially with 117 Australian General Hospital near Toowoomba in Queensland.
On 7 July 1944 she was transferred to 2nd/4th Australian General Hospital, and to 128th Australian General Hospital on 13 November 1944
On 21 May 1945, Lieutenant Redman embarked from Brisbane on the Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) Wanganella, and served in Morotai and Labuan until 1 February 1946, covering Operation Oboe in Borneo and later the repatriation of Australian POW. For this deployment she would have been transferred to the AIF for service overseas and allocated her 2nd AIF number QX49050.
On 14 March 1946, Lieutenant Redman was allocated Regimental Duties with 102 Holland Park Military Hospital, and on 18 July 1946 was allocated Regimental Duties with 110 (Perth) Military Hospital until Demobilation on 23 December 1946.
She is listed on the WW2 nominal roll as having been posted to the 2nd/4th General Hospital on dishcarge although this may have been her delaration rather than her actual posting at the time.
After the War, Elsie lived in Perth, Western Australia and worked as a Registered Nurse.
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