Identity
Person No.
19687
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Amy Maude Augusta
Initials
A M A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
37
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
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Country
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Cemetery
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Additional Information
Notes
Daughter of Col. and Mrs. T. S. Parrott, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Born in Australia her father having gone out there from England in the 1860's to explore and survey Western Queensland. Amy had moved to South Africa to live for unknown reasons, however likely due to the fact her brother Sydney was a mine manager there. She trained as a nurse in South Africa and when war broke out she offered her services and nursed the troops throughout the war. On returning home an epidemic of pneumonic influenza broke out in Johannesburg. She volunteered to assist but caught the disease and died three days later.
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Unknown
External Source
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South African War Graves Project