----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Kennett" <khelenk@austarnet.com.au> Subject: Re: [H,H,HV] Fw: {not a subscriber} Maitland's Great War > At 03:29 PM 13/12/02 +1100, you wrote: > > >Dear Dianne, > > I read with interest of Sister Emily Taylor's letter in the Maitland > Family History Circles publication of Maitland's Great War. > I feel that the Sister Emily Taylor may have married my widowed > grandfather, Archibald Henry Gibson in 1930. > Known as Emily Beatrice Taylor, we always knew of her as "Beatrice", > the daughter of George Taylor and Sarah Hannah Andrews. > At the time of her marriage, Emily was Matron of St. Lukes Hospital > in Sydney. > Helen Kennett. > Atherton Qld. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- > > > > The women of Maitland were also in the midst of the action, like >> Sister Emily Taylor, and must have seen some horrendous sights. >> Sister Taylor writing home to her mother tells of the conditions of the >> casualty clearing stations in France; "There was nothing but a bit of >> canvas for protection, and the mud floor to walk on. The bedsteads >> stood in mud, and many patients were simply on stretchers placed in >> the mud. Stretchers with patients placed handy for the evacuation >> were just covered up with tarpaulins for a bit of protection."