Bessie Armstrong

Service No: NFX 127305
Service: AANS
Place of Birth: Hagley, Tasmania
Highlights: Bessie joined AANS on 16 Dec 1940, as LT and posted to the camp hospital Cowra, On 5 Apr 1941, sent to 119 AGH Darwin, moved to 46 Camp hospital (QLD) on 14 Dec 1942, then going to 2/14 Aust Gen Hospital, Townsville on 23 Mar 1943. She went to 113 Mil Hosp (Concord) on 24 Dec 1945, before her appointment was terminated on 2 Jul 1948. Bessie went to her fathers home in Old Junee when she left the Army and never married. ? Bessie appears to have been involved with the Crookwell (or Binda) Red Cross before the war and appears on the Binda Memorial Hall WW2 Honour Board.