BAKER, Maud Isabel
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 28 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Perth, WA, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Victoria, 1961, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Nov 1914: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse | |
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| 5 Dec 1914: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, per HMAT A.55 Kyarra | |
| 1 Sep 1917: | Promoted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Head Sister, Records state position was for "Temporary Head Sister" | |
| 24 Sep 1917: | Discharged Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Resigned appointment in England 24th September 1917 to marry Dr. Roy William Chambers | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Sister, 1st Australian General Hospital |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Awarded OBE (Civil Division) 1956.
Listed in The Argus (Melbourne) Monday 2nd January 1956 Page 11
"MRS. MAUD ISABEL (CHAMBERS (Toorak):
President, Returned Nurses' Club, Melbourne;
President Royal Melbourne Hospital auxiliary.
also listed in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, Thursday 12th January 1956 [Issue No.2] Page 75 under the sub heading "To be an Officer of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order"
Biography
Temp. Head Sister
AANS
1st Australian General Hospital
Born 1887 in Perth, WA
Daughter of Henry BAKER and Mary Ann nee SUTCLIFFE
Of 'Tranby Park' Peninsula, Maylands, WA
Occupation prior to enlistment Nurse at Perth Public Hospital and Women's Hospital
Enlisted 28 November 1914
Embarked 05 December 1914
Aged 27 years
Served in France
Resigned appointment in England 24th September 1917
Married 24 September 1917 to Dr. Roy William Chambers
Returned to Australia
Married - now Mrs. M J CHAMBERS Of 'Heatherlugh' Campbell Street, Sandingham, Vic.
Died 1961 in Vic.
Her husband was Roy William Chambers a Lieutenant Colonel in WW1. Mentioned in Despatches and was awarded DSO. He was born in Sandringham Victoria 1 January 1890 the son of William Chambers and Mary Ann Callaghan. He was a medical practitioner, gynaecologist and obstetrician. He was considered in his time to be one of the leading Gynaecologist in Australia. He died 28 March 1944 in Melbourne.
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