MATCHETT, Annie Jane
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sister |
| Last Unit: | New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, 20 September 1874 |
| Home Town: | Gundagai, Gundagai, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 10 Jan 1900: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sister, New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve |
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Pre War Experience
Miss Annie Matchett, who for the past year has been engaged in private nursing, and has an excellent name with leading doctors for her careful work with patients, like so many other nurses going to the front, received her training at the Prince Alfred Hospital, where she remained for three years and a half.
Evening News Tuesday 16 January 1900 page 4
Submitted 3 March 2016 by Faithe Jones
Gundagai Nurse
GUNDAGAI NURSE.
It may not be generally known (says the ' Gundagai Times') that Miss Annie Jane
Matchett, who was one of the fourteen nurses to sail from Sydney last week with the Second New South Wales Contingent, is a daughter of Mr. William Matchett, J.P., of South Gundagai. Her age is 26. She was born in Park street, Sydney, and spent three years and a half as a nurse in Prince Alfred Hospital, besides 18 months in private nursing. Her father is delighted at the step she has taken. Miss Matchett is a clever nurse, and to our knowledge possesses the highest credentials. This is self-evident in view of her selection in such an important mission, as Miss Gould, who has been matron of Sydney Hospital, was determined that none but the nurses known to her as being thoroughly qualified and at the head of their profession, could be taken on such perilous work, where so much skill in nursing is needed.
Wagga Wagga Express Thursday 25 January 1900 page 2
Submitted 1 March 2016 by Faithe Jones
Biography
Daughter of Mr. William Matchett, J.P., of South Gundagai.
She was born in Park street, Sydney, and spent three years and a half as a nurse in Prince Alfred Hospital, besides 18 months in private nursing prior to embarkation
Miss Annie Matchett, who for the past year has been engaged in private nursing, and has an excellent name with leading doctors for her careful work with patients, like so many other nurses going to the front, received her training at the Prince Alfred Hospital, where she remained for three years and a half.
Evening News Tuesday 16 January 1900 page 4
GUNDAGAI NURSE.
It may not be generally known (says the ' Gundagai Times') that Miss Annie Jane Matchett, who was one of the fourteen nurses to sail from Sydney last week with the Second New South Wales Contingent, is a daughter of Mr. William Matchett, J.P., of South Gundagai. Her age is 26. She was born in Park street, Sydney, and spent three years and a half as a nurse in Prince Alfred Hospital, besides 18 months in private nursing. Her father is delighted at the step she has taken. Miss Matchett ia a clever nurse, and to our knowledge possesses the highest credentials. This is self-evident in view of her selection in such an important mission, as Miss Gould, who has been matron of Sydney Hospital, was determined that none but tbe nurses known to her as being thoroughly qualified and at the head of their profession, could be taken on such perilous work, where so much skill in nursing is needed.
Wagga Wagga Express Thursday 25 January 1900 page 2
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