Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

13/06/1916

Date of Discharge

23/10/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Female

Other Name(s)

Also known as 'Eva'

Date of Birth

12/06/1877

Place of Birth

Kowen ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Randwick NSW (previously Kowen ACT)

Occupation

Nurse

Next of Kin

Mary Gallagher (mother), 'Strathmore' via Bungendore NSW

Final Rank

Sister

Final Unit

6 Australian Auxiliary Hospital

Bungendore War Memorial

Evelyn Gallagher trained as a nurse including a stint at the 4th Australian General Hospital, Randwick. She enlisted on 13 June 1916 (with her niece Janet) and served for two years with the Australian Army Nursing Service in India before transferring to England in December 1918. She returned to Australia the following year and was discharged on 23 October 1919. Evelyn Gallagher died in 1950.

Description - - height 5 feet 7 inches, weight 152 pounds, dark complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Catholic, moles on her shoulders and abdomen.

Neville Gallagher, 'The Long Travail', 1987
Keast Burke (ed.), 'With horse and morse in Mesopotamia: The story of Anzacs in Asia', 1927
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Information provided by Dr. Kirsty Harris