Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

15/06/1917

Date of Discharge

28/09/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Female

Place of Birth

Singleton NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Singleton NSW (previously Duntroon ACT)

Occupation

Nurse

Next of Kin

Clara Redman (sister), Jerrys Plains via Singleton NSW

Final Rank

Nurse

Final Unit

Australian Army Medical Corps

Alma McKnight was a nurse at the Royal Military College, Duntroon when she enlisted in June 1917 in Sydney. She came from the Singleton area and served in Egypt as a nurse with the Australian Medical Corps from December 1917 until returning to Australia in August 1919. She was discharged on 28 September 1918. She married Frank Hargreaves in 1928 and died in Sydney in September 1967.

Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 150 pounds, dark complexion, grey eyes, dark brown hair, Church of England.

Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - 14 September 1967
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
AWM Collections Record : J05657