Nurses who died volunteering Woodman Point - Woodman Point Quarantine Station

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Nurses who died volunteering Woodman Point

HISTORY
THIS WEBPAGE IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE NURSES WHO SERVED AT THE WOODMAN POINT QUARANTINE STATION, INCLUDING THE FOUR WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, WHEN THEY VOLUNTEERED FOR DUTY AT THE QUARANTINE STATION, TO NURSE THE RETURNING SOLDIERS AT THE END OF WWI, WHO WERE SUFFERING FROM THE SPANISH FLU.
 THIS CRISIS WOULD LATER BE KNOWN AS THE BOONAH TRAGEDY.
Flanders Poppy
Volunteer Staff Nurse Ada Thompson
Civilian Nurse Hilda Grace Williams
In remembrance cross
Staff Nurse Doris Alice Ridgway
Staff Nurse Rosa O'Kane
FOR INFORMATION ON THE FOUR NURSES PLEASE CLICK ON EACH SEPARATE MEMORIAL.
Photographs by Earle Seubert
 
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