Margaret Helen Meggy
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Sister Margaret Helen [or just Helen] Meggy trained at Sydney Hospital.
Dr Kirsty Harris' database records her service as: 10AGH orig; 1AGH Egypt; 2AGH Sep 15; 2AGH Marseilles Jun 16; Wimereux Aug 16; flu/tonsillitis Dec 16; 1AAH Dec 17.
Nurse Helen Meggy, who has just returned to her home at Neutral Bay on furlough, has seen three years and three months' active service in Egypt, France and England. Nurse Meggy's three brothers all volunteered. One of them was killed at Gallipoli, another was killed in France, and the third is in England after service abroad. Nurse Meggy is a daughter of Mr. Percy Meggy, and a sister of Miss Myrtle Meggy, the pianiste. – Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW), 17 November 1918
Returned to Australia 24 August 1918 on the City of Karachi. Married William Schoenfeld, of Seattle, U.S.A., in Seattle on 6 November 1925.
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- mother - Meggy Myrite
- sibling - Albert Edward Meggy
- sibling - Douglas Acland Meggy
- sibling - Percy Arthur Meggy
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- Sister Margaret Helen Meggy AANS (Photograph)
- MEGGY Margaret Helen Service Number Staff Nurse Place of Birth Sydney NSW Place of Enlistment NA Next of Kin Mother MEGGY Myrite (Item)
- Discovering Anzacs Margaret Helen Meggy (Webpage)
- PERSONAL (Newspaper Article)
- THE PATHETIC TRAGEDY CALLED OPEN BERTHS Anzac’s English Wife Paints an Awful Picture of How Soldiers’ Wives and Children Fared on Shipboard (Newspaper Article)
- HOME and SOCIETY Nurse Meggy’s three brothers all volunteered (Newspaper Article)
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