Elsie Lewis (née Hammond)

Elsie Hammond.

First Name(s): Elsie Emily Sarah

Unmarried Surname: Hammond

Married Surname: Lewis, 1918

Date of Birth: 4.7.1898, Norwich

Date of death: 27.12.1981

Date left Women’s Forage Corps: 8.1.1919

Elsie (second from the left) with fellow First World War Land Girls in 1919. The caption reads how ‘Nana [Elsie] said people were shocked to see women for the first time wearing long pants in public’.

Further information:

Married A.I.F. solider, Francis Patrick Lewis on 23rd December 1918 in Norwich. Shipped to Australia with other war brides on the HMAT Konigan Luise. Elise lived a happy life with ‘Frank’, until he passed away in 1951, mostly in Brisbane. Elsie had a photo of him in her handbag when she passed away on 27th December 1981.

An article on Elsie and Francis published in the Australian newspaper The Toowoomba Chronicle by Stuart Cumming on 11th September 2014.
Elsie Hammond’s Gaiters
Francis and Elsie Lewis.
Francis and Elsie Lewis.
Elsie and Frank Lewis with their baby.
Frank and Elsie Lewis.

Contributor information: Lynelle Zita Westlake (née Lewis), Granddaughter

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