SISTER Ruby Elizabeth LESLIE-SMITH

Service: Australian Army Nursing Service
Place of Birth: Tamworth NSW - Ruby and her mother lived at ‘The Grange’ Crookwell when Ruby enlisted.
Highlights: Ruby joined the Australian Army Nursing Service on 31 Jul 1915, after completing her nurse training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1913. Ruby sailed to Egypt where she worked at 27th General Hospital (British) Abbassia (near the northern entrance to the Suez Canal), until sailing to India in July 1916.

Ruby was then posted to Station Hospital Mhow, India where she served sailing for England and arriving on 15 Jan 1917. Ruby was then posted to 1 Australian General Hospital and seconded to numerous other hospitals (Australian & British) until she joined 3 Australian General Hospital at Abbeville, France on 23 Dec 1917.

Ruby returned to England in April 1919 and took leave to undertake a Cookery Course in Bristol from 5 May 1919 to 19 Jul 1919. Ruby returned to Australia as Nursing Staff on SS Berima arriving on 8 Nov 1919 and was discharged on 7 Jan 1920. Does not appear to have married, living in England in 1954.