• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH001515

Interview with Tommy Lyon [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott

  • Repository State Library of South Australia
  • Reference SRG 438/29/58
  • Date Range 1996 - 1996
  • Description

    51 minutes Tommy was born in 1914 in Geraldton, WA. She talks about her family, schools at Canarvon and Perth, nurse training in Perth and Broome, doing midwifery, nursing at Norseman, illnesses of fiancĂ©, moving to Adelaide, stories about life on the property with her parents, left Adelaide Hospital in 1944 to get married, she returned in 1964 to St Andrew’s hospital and Wakefield St Hospital. She retired in 1981 when she was 67.

  • Formats Sound recording (cassette) analogue
  • Access Access to use copies only with written permission from the donor. Contact the President, Lyceum Club. Original WITHDRAWN.
  • Finding Aid Log available (2 pages)