Historical information
Daughter of Herman Strom, a Swedish sea captain and Mary Edington Rule Pyatt with 2 siblings: Eric Strom and Elsa Rule Strom. Born 1892 in Ascot Vale; died 1984.
Christine trained as a nurse at the Royal Women’s Hospital for 4 years and enlisted on 24/5/1917 as an Army Staff nurse. Enlistment papers give her religion as Unitarian. Her letters written to her family (“Letters from Salonika”) and her WW1 diary are held at the Australian War Memorial.
After marriage she lived at 12 Lock Street from 1923-1981. Married Walter Hugh Bonwick and had 2 sons William James (Bill) and John Edwin. Pastimes: Joined the Scout Movement and became ‘Akela’ to the cubs of Yooralla, Balwyn; wrote prose and poetry and had a book of verse published; entitled “We came in a Freighter”.
Physical description
A black and white photograph of a lady, wearing a long dark coloured dress. She has short fair hair. There is a table beside her and a picture hanging on the wall behind her.
Subjects
References
- Christina Erica Strom's WW1 diary Digitised: 104 pages Accession number: RCDIGO0000968 Collection number: PR03304 Held at the Australian War Memorial; digitised version available. Written at sea and in Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, France, Greece, India, United Kingdom, Yemen. She served in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Army Nursing Service, British Army, No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, No. 42 British General Hospital, No. 66 British General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps.
