Louise Young

Louise Estelle Young was born in Hindmarsh, South Australia, in 1882, the daughter of the Windsor Grammar School principal. The 32-year-old nurse enlisted with the AIF on 26 April 1915, sailing to England with No. 3 Australian General Hospital (3AGH) on the SS Mooltan.

Louise served with 3AGH for the six months it was on Lemnos, and then served in England and France. She was working in France when she was promoted from staff nurse to sister in May 1917. A small article in the Sunday Times of 30 March 1919 suggests she was a kind woman who would readily spend her earnings on extra comforts for her soldier patients.

Louise’s service with the AIF was cut short due to her poor health. She suffered from the auto-immune condition lupis. Eventually she was invalided back to Australia on the Ruahine, arriving  on 5 July 1918. 

She died in July 1960, at the age of 79, in Concord, New South Wales.