NAME Florence Josephine Reardon
BORN Cootamundra 17 July 1887
DIED Croydon Park, 9 September 1983
MILITARY SERIAL NO. Staff Nurse
UNIT Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service[1]
ENLISTED She embarked for England on the Karoola 18 December 1915
DISCHARGED England 26 June 1919

Florence Reardon’s block consisted of 1540 acres – Farm 47, Portion 31, her block SP 1910/34 was located in the County of Kennedy, Parish of Willanbalang, Parkes Land District being one from the Mungery Settlement Purchase area.[2] The property was transferred to her on 1 February 1924, from Patrick Michael Williams.   Her brother Patrick James Reardon also held a Settlement Purchase on Mungery – SP 1910/18.

It is not known how long she stayed on the block although she was still living there in 1932.[3]

Footnotes

[1] NAA:  MT1487/1, Sister QAIMNS.

[2] SRNSW: Closer Settlement Promotion file, [10/37088 Mungery].

[3] Ibid.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW:  Lands Department;  Closer Settlement Promotion File NRS 8052, [10/37088 Mungery] .

National Archives of Australia:  MT1487/1, Sister QAIMNS.