Margaret Lamont Adams

Margaret Lamont ADAMS. Captain/ Nursing Sister VFX66028. AANS
Born 8 December 1913 to Thomas Lamont Adams and Gertrude Margaret Adams, of 70 Paxton Street. East Malvern, Victoria.
Enlisted aged 27 13 November 1941, occupation, nurse. Taken on strength with the rank of Staff Nurse and posted to Camp Hospital, Dandenong, Victoria. 26 November 1941 granted embarkation leave from 26 November 1941 to 3 December 1941. 26 January 1942 reported for duty on 1st Netherland Hospital Ship Centaur in Melbourne, Victoria.
28 January 1942 embarked Melbourne for what appears to have been causality evacuation duty.
January 1943 the ship was handed over to the Australian Military and renamed as 2/3 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur. 17 March 1943 she embarked Sydney with 11 other nurses for overseas duty on 2/3rd Australian Hospital Ship, Centaur. The ship was Torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-177 off Stradbroke Island, Queensland 14 May 1943. She died aged 29 years along with ten other nurses

Commemorated on Sydney Memorial, Sydney, New South Wales. Included in the Nurses’ War Memorial Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London

Updated 23/9/22