Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 11/05/1917
- Date of Discharge
- 03/08/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Female
- Place of Birth
- Nymagee NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Nurse
- Next of Kin
- George Whitlock (father), Nymagee NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Staff Nurse
- Final Unit
- Australian Army Medical Corps
Notes
Marie Whitlock trained as a nurse at St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. She was employed at the RMC Hospital at Duntroon for a short period in early 1916 but had to wait a year before her enlistment was accepted. Whitlock arrived in Egypt in July 1917 on the same ship as Ethel Macfie and joined the staff at the 14th Australian General Hospital at Abbassia in Cairo where she spent the next two years. She returned to Australia in July 1919 but on board the ship she met Alan Wendt, a light horseman and Gallipoli veteran. They married in Adelaide on 27 October 1919. She died in 1964 in South Australia.
Descripton - height 5 feet 6 inches, fair complexion, grey eyes, fair hair, Catholic.
Sources
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Ross Howarth, 'History of the RMC Hospital, 5 Camp Hospital & 21 Dental Unit', 2007
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
South Australia Births, Deaths & Marriages - https://www.genealogysa.org.au/resources/online-databases.html
Information provided by Patricia Clarke