Sister
Ethel
May
Bolton
ARRC
Born in Gippsland, Victoria (Australia)
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Kinsey Bolton CBE CMG VD
and Jane Morpeth (Gillies) Bolton
Sister of
Jeanne Kinsey Bolton, Thomas Henry Bolton, Moore Hunter Bolton, James Leslie Bolton [half], Helen Laurie (Bolton) Hindhaugh [half], Ena Evaline (Bolton) Blyth [half] and Sydney Ford Bolton DSC [half]
Died
at about age 85
in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 24 May 2018
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Biography
Sister Ethel May Bolton ARRC was born in 1886 in Gippsland, Victoria (Australia). She was the eldest child of Lieutenant Colonel (later Brigadier General) William Bolton and Jane Gillies. [1]
Ethel was a nurse
Ethel Bolton ARRC is a Military Veteran.
Served in the Australian Army Nursing Service 1915-1919
1st Australian General Hospital
Served in the Australian Army Nursing Service 1915-1919
1st Australian General Hospital
Ethel served as a Head Sister in the Australian Army Nursing Service in The Great War; enlisted 3rd April 1915;[2] [3] embarked for overseas service with the 1st Australian General Hospital on 13th April 1915 at Sydney aboard HMAT Kyarra A55;[4] returned to Australia 13th March 1919. She was awarded the Associate Royal Red Cross for 'exceptional services in military nursing'; gazetted 3rd June 1919.[5]
She passed away on 30th June 1971 in Ballarat, Victoria and her ashes were spread in the Ballarat General Cemetery. There is a memorial in the Ballarat Base Hospital Sisters who served King & Country.[6]
Sources
- ↑ Victoria Birth Index #14588/1886
- ↑ Australian War Memorial nominal roll; accessed 24 May 2018
- ↑ Age (Melbourne), 9 Sep 1941, p8; Argus (Melbourne), 9 Sep 1941, p3
- ↑ Australian War Memorial embarkation roll; accessed 24 May 2018
- ↑ Australian War Memorial Honours and Awards; accessed 24 May 2018
- ↑ Virtual War Memorial; accessed 28 Feb 2019
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