Monday,
23 September 2024
Tree replaced, and service honours Cheshunt nurses

FAMILY, friends and community members gathered at the Cheshunt Hall in August for the replacement of one of the memorial trees originally planted in 1959 in memory of World War II nurses Sister Caroline Ennis and Sister Dorothy Gwendolyn 'Bud' Elmes.

Both nurses, who came from Cheshunt, were among the last 65 Australian nurses to evacuate from Singapore on February 12 in 1942 aboard the Vyner Broo...

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