British War Medal 1914-20 : Sister K Erwood, Australian Army Nursing Service, AIF

British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

Awarded to Sister Kathleen Elizabeth Erwood who served in the Australian Army Nursing Service during the First World War. Erwood was born in Melbourne on 2 September 1871 and trained as a nurse at Royal Alexandra Hospital before enlisting for service on 28 August 1916. She embarked for overseas service on the ship 'Mooltan' on 4 August 1916, arriving in Bombay on 13 September 1916. On arrival the nurses were broken up into small groups and sent to 'station hospitals' all over India. Erwood stayed in Bombay, and served mainly in the Victoria War Hospital for the remainder of 1916. In January 1917, she was promoted from Staff Nurse to Sister. In April 1917, she was transferred to the Hospital ship 'Delta' for temporary duty. In August she left Bombay on the SS 'Malwa' for Salonika in Greece and reported for duty to the British 42nd General Hospital in September. In 1918 Erwood accompanied Staff Nurse Ruth Alardyce Steel to Australia after she had been invalided from service, leaving Egypt to return to Australia on 15 February 1918. Erwood was discharged in April 1918 but re-enlisted in June 1918 and served with no. 7 Australian General Hospital in Adelaide until her discharge, at her own request, on 4 April 1920.