Woodman Point Quarantine Station

Staff Nurse. Susie Watson Cone

First World War Embarkation Roll - Susie Watson Cone
Susie Watson Cone
Rank: Staff Nurse
Roll title: Nurses (July 1915 - November 1918)
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of embarkation: 14 October 1918
Place of embarkation: Sydney
Ship embarked on: SS Wyreema

Staff Nurse Susie Cone aged 30, from Glengarry, Victoria, embarked in Sydney
per the SS WYREEMA on the 14th October 1918.
With the signing of the armistice the vessel will return to Fremantle where she will volunteer for duty at the Woodman Point Quarantine Station where the situation has become desperate because of the ever increasing numbers of returning soldiers, suffering from the " Spanish Flu", being hospitalised there from
the vessel SS BOONAH.

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To read details from her diary, click on pages below.

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AIF Nurses onboard the SS WYREEMA