Bravery in Numbers
Today's blog is one about a woman of service who gave her life for her country. She was one of the victims of a horrendous massacre during WW2 which causes shock upon reading all these years later. FLORENCE AUBIN SALMON Florence was born on 20th October 1915, the second child of John Henry Salmon and his wife Florence (nee Aubin). The family lived in Punchbowl a southwestern suburb of Sydney and were members of the Methodist Church. There is not a great deal on public record about Florence's early life, but we do know she passed her Nurses Registration Board exams whilst at the War Memorial Hospital in Waverley. Originally the private residence and grounds of property owned by Ebenezer Vickery, the estate was donated as a war hospital in 1919 opening its doors to its first patients after internal modifications in 1921. War Memorial Hospital Waverley - photograph author's own Florence enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service at Victoria Barracks in Sydney in ...