Darvall (Goetze and McDonald), Annie Emily Jane

 Person: id 43618
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UQ
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World War I
Family name
Darvall (Goetze and McDonald)
Given name(s)
Annie Emily Jane
Initials
A.E.J.
Gender
Female
Naming note
aka Jean
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
BA., She was in the first cohort at the university matriculating in March 1911 in Arts.  She was admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Second Class Honours on 17th April 1914.  By late 1916 her parents had separated and she was using her grandmothers name, and known as Annie Darvall.  She enlisted in the Volunteer Aid Detachment in November 1916 and went overseas working first as a Clerk in the 2nd Western General Hospital, then transferring to France where she served from July 1917 to March 1919.  She was mentioned in Despatches on 25 May 1918.  She returned to Brisbane and worked at the University of Queensland through to 1941 mainly in the Department of Correspondence Studies. At the end of 1941 she married Sydney Fancourt McDonald.
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Information supplied by UQ Archives.
Image copied from “The Highest Traditions, A Biography of Sydney Fancourt McDonald”, by John Pearn
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