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smiller

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Is there much information about nurse settlement schemes?

 

A web-based article about Australian soldier settlement schemes says nurses and female relatives of deceased soldiers could also apply. It cites Marilyn Lake (AO) saying a Returned nurse Annie Smith began a dairy farm and describes some of her challenges.

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Soldier_settlement_(Australia)

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The nurses were included in the Soldier's Settlement Act Scheme of 1916.

 

Here are two from NSW-

 

https://soldiersettlement.records.nsw.gov.au/case-studies/laffin-nellie-alfreda-nee-pike/

 

https://soldiersettlement.records.nsw.gov.au/case-studies/reardon-florence-josephine/

 

They are from this website which covers those that settled in NSW -

 

https://soldiersettlement.records.nsw.gov.au/about/

 

There are several wives of deceased soldiers in the case studies if you search them out.

 

Marilyn Lake wrote a book about the scheme in Victoria called Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlements in Victoria 1915-1938. It would be worth your while searching out a copy of that book.

 

I am sure Trove would locate some further information on nurses who took up the scheme.

 

Scott

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Here's the one I found on Trove using the search "Nurse and Settlement" - sadly not digitised (Broken link)

 

Regards

 

David

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Thanks Scott, your suggestions seem to sum up what I could quickly find

 

Sorry David but your link comes up as timed-out, so I am not sure what it refers to

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Smiler, my apologies.

It referred if I recall correctly to a Nurse Chapman making a claim under the soldiers' settlement scheme. It is not a digitised record so can't be viewed online, but it was the only one to appear under those search terms.

I will edit my previous post to avoid others following a broken link.

Regards

David

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