Informal portrait of Sister Lorna Helene Simon AANS. Miss Simon trained in the Adelaide Hospital ...

Informal portrait of Sister Lorna Helene Simon AANS. Miss Simon trained in the Adelaide Hospital before joining the AANS on 24 July 1917. Staff Nurse Simon was one of a draft of 364 nurses assigned for duty in British military hospitals at Salonika in Greece. Staff Nurse Simon was in the first contingent of 215 nurses embarked on the transport Mooltan bound for Alexandria, followed by a succession vessels before arriving at Salonika on 30 July 1917. Staff Nurse Simon was assigned to No 60 British General Hospital at Hortiach, about twenty miles from Salonika. In 1919 she returned to South Australia to No 7 Australian General Hospital (7AGH) at Keswick and was discharged from the Army on 28 September 1919. During the Second World War she enlisted again into the AANS and served as a Matron from 30 November 1942 until 4 January 1945.