Royal Australian Returned Women`s Nursing Services Roll of HonourPrint Page

The honour roll commemorates three Tasmanian nurses who died during World War One and World War Two. 

The honour roll is a polished wooden board (with another board above it) with a carved crest of two female heads labelled Edith Cavell and Marie Depage.

Matron Miles Walker, R.R.C., one of the nurses who left Australia with the first nursing division, has become a victim to influenza at Sutton-Veny, England. Out of the 26 Australian nurses who left for the scene of action in October, 1914, she is the only one who has died. Miss Walker was born in Tasmania, but enlisted with the New South Wales Division. Towards the end of last year she returned from France to take charge of a new Australian military hospital at Sutton-Veny, near Weymouth, where her death took place in October. For some time she held the position of matron at the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, but left that Institution about 16 months ago to take charge of a casualty clearing station in France. She received the Royal Red Cross decoration in 1917. Matron Walker was classed in the first rank of the nursing profession, and her kindly disposition made her very popular with her fellow-nurses and the patients who came under her care. Miss R. Quarterman, another Australian nurse on military duty in England, had a very serious attack of Spanish influenza, but, according to letters received by the last mail, she had passed the critical stage, and was well on the road to recovery. 
The Herald (Melbourne), 7 January 1919. 

Lieut. D. Shirley Gardam, who died on April 4, 1945, in a P.O.W. camp in Muntock, Banku Island, was the eldest daughter of Mr. R. A. Gardam and the late Mrs. Gardam, of Youngtown. Sister Gardam received her training in the Launceston General Hospital, and later went to St. Margaret's Military Hospital, Randwick (Vic.) and the Repatriation Hospital, Hobart. She left for Malaya in 1941, and served with 2/4 Clearing Station. In March, 1942, the late Sister Gardam, with 62 other nurses, was on a bombed ship. Eight nurses were drowned. Others, including herself, drifted up the coast, where they were taken prisoners. After her capture, relatives of the late Sister Gardam received one card from Palembang. No further news came to hand until notification of her death was received recently.
Advocate (Burnie, Tas.), 19 November 1945.
 

Mrs.L. Raymont, of Parr street, Largs, has been advised that her daughter, Sister W. R. Raymont, A.I.F., died of illness while a prisoner of war in Japanese hands at Banka Island on February 8. Sister Raymont trained at the Royal Adelaide and Waikerie Hospitals. She joined the A.I.F. nursing service in Tasmania in 1940.
News (Adelaide), 11 October 1945.

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