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Elsie Emily Sarah Hammond
Woman's Forage Corps Norfolk
from:Norwich
My Grandmother, Elsie Emily Sarah Hammond, was born and bred in Norwich. She joined the Woman's Forage Corps in Norfolk in 1915. She met my Grandfather, Pte Francis Patrick Lewis AIF, who was recovering from wounds inflicted in France at the Norfolk War Hospital in 1917. They were engaged in Norwich October 1918 then married December 1918 in Norwich.
Elsie returned with her Digger to Australia in 1919 to make a life in a new country. Elsie and Francis had 2 sons, Francis Walter Lewis who served in the RAN and Alexander Gordon Lewis who served in AIF in WW2.

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