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Name: AUSTIN, Barbara Mary (Serjeant)
Birth Date: 2 Aug 1920 Queenstown
Death Date: 12 Feb 1944 SS Khedive Ismail
Last Date: 1944
Profession: Drowned in the sinking of the 'Khedive Ismail' in 1944.
Area: Kitale
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, CWGC, mini-Sitrep XXIII
General Information:
CWGC - East Africa Memorial - Serjeant Barbara Mary Austin, K541. Women's Territorial Service (East Africa), lost in SS Khedive Ismail 12th February 1944
mini-Sitrep XXIII - She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in Nairobi in 1941 and served in both Signals and Intelligence and was promoted Sergeant in 1943.