Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

14/06/1916

Date of Discharge

23/10/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Female

Other Name(s)

Given name also recorded as 'Jennette'.

Date of Birth

15/01/1880

Place of Birth

Kowen ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Randwick NSW (previously Kowen ACT)

Occupation

Nurse

Next of Kin

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

Final Rank

Sister

Final Unit

3 Australian General Hospital

Bungendore War Memorial

Janet (or Jennette) Gallagher was born at the Gallagher family property at Browns Flat near Kowen on 15 January 1880. She trained as a nurse including a stint at the 4th Australian General Hospital, Randwick. Sister Gallagher enlisted on 14 June 1916 (with her aunt, Evelyn) and served for two years with the Australian Army Nursing Service in India before transferring to England in January 1919. She returned to Australia later that year and was discharged on 23 October 1919. She died on 30 December 1957 and is buried in Sydney.

Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 146 pounds, fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Catholic, moles on right side of face, and one on her abdomen.

Neville Gallagher, 'The Long Travail', 1987
Keast Burke (ed.), 'With horse and morse in Mesopotamia: The story of Anzacs in Asia', 1927
Peter Procter, 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan', Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)