Member of the Brisbane Branch of the Red Cross Society of Australia.
Nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment - 2nd General Western Hospital
Official Australian Voluntary Aid Detachment. Country of Service United Kingdom.
She died aged 37 years at the military hospital on Ducie Avenue (this was part of 2nd Western General Hospital) on 1st April 1917.Cause of Death Measles turned Septic Arthritis.
Her name is listed on memorial boards at the Territorial Army Centre in Stretford and York Cathedral.
Accepted for commemoration as a casualty of the Great War on 26 January 2017.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour.
Cenotaph here
Member of the Brisbane Branch of the Red Cross Society of Australia.
Nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment - 2nd General Western Hospital
Official Australian Voluntary Aid Detachment. Country of Service United Kingdom.
She died aged 37 years at the military hospital on Ducie Avenue (this was part of 2nd Western General Hospital) on 1st April 1917.Cause of Death Measles turned Septic Arthritis.
Her name is listed on memorial boards at the Territorial Army Centre in Stretford and York Cathedral.
Accepted for commemoration as a casualty of the Great War on 26 January 2017.
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour.
Cenotaph here
Inscription
Lydia William Falconar Grant
V.A.D
Member of the Brisbane Branch of the
Red Cross Society of Australia, born at
Falcon Hall, Morningside, Edinburgh
And died at Ducie Avenue, Military
Hospital, Manchester, on the lst of
April 1917. Elder daughter of Peter
G. Grant and Emily Grant of Brisbane,
Queensland
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