• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE1146

Groom, Charlotte Ellen

  • Also known as Lottie
    Birth name Attree, Charlotte Ellen
(1866 – 1955)
  • Born 23 February 1866, Erith, Kent, England
  • Died 26 October 1955, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • Occupation Red Cross Worker, Stenographer

Summary

Charlotte Groom was a member of the Red Cross Women’s Service Corps in Western Australia for approximately 52 years. She was also a short-term member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment and one of Adelaide’s first female stenographers.

In 1950, at the age of 83, Charlotte received a concussion in a bus accident, which saw a fellow Red Cross worker killed.

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  • Related Organisations
    • Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) (1914)
    • Australian Red Cross (1914)