Sepia Saturday and Fab Feb Photo Collage - Day Sixteen

Hazel and Ethel Conner nee Carrett near GPO Sydney c1943

Here is my beloved aunt and her mother, my Gran.

My Aunty Hazel enlisted in the Australian Army 15 February 1943 at Paddington.  Her next of Kin was my grandmother.  Hazel would have been about 18 or 19 when this photo was taken. 

She was discharged 21 September 1944.

She worked at the 113 Australian General Hospital and was a Corporal on discharge.

I've just ordered her war service record from the National Archives.

I found a great series of photos of the Hospital here on the Australian War Memorial website.

The 113 Australian General Hospital may be better known to Sydney residents as Concord Hospital.

It looked like this:

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According to this Wikipaedia article it was one of the tallest buildings in Sydney at the time.  And it won the Sulman award for architecture in 1946.  By the by, I was born at the King George V Hospital for Mothers and Babies which won the Award in 1941.  I'm beginning to be obsessed with the Sulman Award as per this previous post.  Perhaps I could make it a life goal to visit every building that won the Award.  I can tick off a few already as per this list.

But I digress...There are some heartbreaking photos in the AWM collection of photos.  

I refer you to this one and this one.

I suspect my Aunt worked in an office like this.

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I remember seeing my Aunt march on Anzac Day at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra when I was young.  She was very proud to do so.

I am looking forward to visiting the War Memorial again in Canberra next month.

Thanks to the following blogs for providing the inspiration for this post 
Sepia Saturday and Angler's Rest.