Rose Creal
Australian nurse (1865-1921)
Rose Ann Creal, (3 November 1865 – 7 August 1921) was a decorated Australian nurse of the First World War.
Early life
Creal was born on 3 November 1865 in Young, New South Wales. She was one of five children of John Creal, an Irish-born miner, and Ann (née Brady), also of Irish descent. In 1872, when Rose was seven years old, her mother and newborn brother died. She was educated at home by her father until the age of 16 when she began a job in a small hospital in Parkes, New South Wales.
Creal worked in Parkes for many years and was appointed as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve. She enlisted for war service on 14 August 1916 and arrived in Egypt on 23 September. She served as a nurse for three years during the First World War and returned to Australia in January 1920. She died almost a year and a half later, on 7 August 1921, after an attack of appendicitis.
Nursing
Creal began working at a small hospital in Parkes at the young age of 16.
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