Elizabeth BRENNAN

Brennan	Elizabeth Photo:
National Archives of Australia
Birthplace
Unknown
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Nurse
Enlisted
N/A
Place
N/A
Age
Unknown
Status
Married
Service No
N/A
Rank
Sister
Unit
N/A
Embarked
01-February-1916
Place
N/A
Active Service
England
Highest rank
Overlooker (Supervisor)
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
Returned to Australia
Unknown
Notes

Name on ROH: J. BRENNAN

 

Elizabeth Brennan was matron of Gladstone Hospital for some years. In 1901 she married Henry William Southern McCann of Toowoomba. During WW1 only single nurses could join the Australian Army Nursing Service so, in February 1916, she travelled independently to England "to offer herself for military nursing or any war work." She discovered there was a surplus of nurses so decided to work in munitions and became an "overlooker" in a cartridge factory in London. It is unknown when she returned to Australia.