ADAMS Margaret Lamont

  • First Name(s):
    Margaret 
    Lamont 
  • Surname:
    ADAMS
  • Service Number:
    VFX66028
  • Rank:

    Sister

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Nursing Service:
    Australian Army Nursing Service
  • Nationality:
    Australian
  • Date of Death:
    14th May 1943
  • Age At Death:
    29
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Panel 4, Sydney Memorial, New South Wales, Australia
Sister Elaine BALFOUR-OGILVY served and died in WW2.

Further Information About ADAMS Margaret Lamont

Daughter of Thomas Lamont Adams and Gertrude Margaret Adams, of East Malvern, Victoria.

The Age, Melbourne 19th May 1943
11 Nurses Missing
Eleven army nurses were included in the list of missing, believed drowned from the Centaur. Five were from Victoria, five from New South Wales, and one from South Australia. One New South Wales nurse was rescued and admitted to hospital with injuries. The list is as follows (I have only taken the information on Margaret from the report):-
VICTORIA
Sister Margaret L. Adams
Sister Margaret Lamont Adams, who had served in hospital ships for the past fifteen months, did her training at the Children’s and Women’s hospitals. For a time she was on the staff of St George’s Hospital, Kew.

The following information has been researched by and is courtesy of Alfred Beard:
Notes from her service record:
Margaret Adams enlisted aged 27 on the 13th November 1941, at Melbourne, Victoria, occupation, nurse. Taken on strength with the rank of Staff Nurse and posted to Camp Hospital, Dandenong, Victoria. On the 26th November 1941 she was granted embarkation leave from the 26th November 1941 to the 3rd December 1941. On the 28th January 1942 she reported for duty on the 1st Netherland Hospital Ship Centaur in Melbourne, Victoria, embarking on the same date at Melbourne for what appears to have been causality evacuation duty.

In January 1943 the ship was handed over to the Australian Military and renamed as 2/3 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur. On the 17th March 1943 Margaret embarked at Sydney with 11 other nurses for overseas duty on 2/3rd Australian Hospital Ship, Centaur. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-177 off Stradbroke Island, Queensland on the 14th May 1943. She died aged 29 years along with ten other nurses. Included in the Nurses’ War Memorial Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London

Link to her service record.
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=6112094

Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial

Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial

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