Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Homan H M Sister Helen Marie Maude Nurses 39 Nurse Single C of E
Address: Moonee Ponds, Hutcheson St, 37
Next of Kin: Homan, F L D, brother, 37 Hutcheson St, Moonee Ponds
Enlisted: 24 Aug 1915
Embarked: RMS Morea 24 Aug 1915
Award: Associate of the Royal Red Cross
Date of London Gazette: 1 January 1919
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 23 May 1919
The citation for Sister Homan's Award of the Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class, it was stated that it was "For special devotion to duty at all times both at the base and in a C.C.S [Casualty Clearing Station]". It also showed that she was currently stationed at No 5 Stationary Hospital which had 300 beds and 20 staff. She had trained at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and had served in Egypt and with the BEF in France. The recommendation was dated 4/10/1918. http://www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/AWM28/2/394/0008.pdf
Australian nurses taking tea in their quarters at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station,
near Steenwerck. Left to right: Sister Mildred Crocker-Brown; Sister (Topsy) Tyson; Sister Homan
(centre background); Sister Louisa Stobo(centre foreground); Sister Steward (standing); Sister
Shepherd. 30 November 1917.
Australian War Memorial Collection. http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/E01280
Mentioned in Correspondence:
Jacobson A Staff Nurse letter published in The Argus 23 Nob 1916.
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"WAIT TILL WE RETURN."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.
Sir.-The following extract from a letter dated October 20 received to-day from my sister (Sister Helen Homan), who is at a casualty clearing station in France, shows what those at the front think about conscription:-
"We hear that there is another wretched shipping strike! That means delay in letters, the boys out here are awfully 'fed up' about it. Even those who were staunch Labourites would gladly have the punishing of the strikes. They say, Wail till "they get home!" If ever there is another referendum for conscription, the vote here will be almost unanimously in favour of it."
Yours &c.,
F. L. DEXTER HOMAN.
Hutcheson street, Moonee Ponds
15 December 1917
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1670098
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