Savage, Eleanor (1912-)

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Servicewoman
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-745052

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For lifesaving after the ship Centaur was attacked by a Japanese submarine, Lieutenant Ellen Savage was awarded the George Medal on 22 August 1944.

Ellen Savage joined the Australian Army on 18 November 1941. She was one of 12 nurses posted to the hospital ship Centaur. At dawn on 14 May 1943, while sailing between Sydney and Port Moresby, the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the Queensland coast. Only having time to grab a lifejacket, Lieutenant (Lt) Savage jumped into the sea before the ship went down. Managing not to be sucked into the whirlpool, she found a piece of debris to help her stay afloat. She and other survivors drifted until they were able to tie-up with other rafts. During the thirty-four hours that they floated, before being picked up by the US destroyer Mugford, Lt Savage attended to the wounded without disclosing the extent of her own injuries.

For her courage Lt Ellen Savage became the second Australian woman to be awarded the George Medal.

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Resources for Eleanor Savage

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Australian Women's Register

  1. SAVAGE, ELLENWorld War 2 Nominal Roll Department of Veterans' Affairs : SAVAGE, ELLEN
    Department of Veterans' Affairs
    [2002]
    Series: http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=186373
  2. Sister Ellen Savage GM AANSThe sinking of the Centaur Department of Veterans' Affairs : Sister Ellen Savage GM AANS
    Department of Veterans' Affairs
    [2003]
    Series: http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat/2003/centaur/ellen.htm
  3. Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999
    Reid, Richard
    [1999]
    Published: Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs
  4. Twentieth-Century Women of Courage
    Escott, Beryl E
    [1999]
    Published: Sutton Publishing
  5. Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War
    Bassett, Jan
    [1992]
    Published: Oxford University Press
  6. Australian women at war
    Adam-Smith, Patsy
    [1984]
    Published: Nelson

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  1. Savage, Eleanor (1912-)
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  1. Website: Australian Women's Archives Project
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    Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
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    Languages: English, Chinese, Vietnamese, [22 others]
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  2. More than money. (properly compensating travel agency employees)
    Van Savage, Eleanor
    Travel Agent
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  3. Robberies of agencies spur concern over security. (travel agencies)
    Van Savage, Eleanor
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  4. School's out: today's students, intrepid as ever, are traveling despite politics and high prices
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  1. Records, 1834-1986 [manuscript]
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  2. Dow collection
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  1. Eleanor of Aquitaine
    Savage, Alan, 1930-
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  2. Pollyanna / Eleanor H. Porter
    Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920
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  3. Nurses, gender and sexuality / Jan Savage
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  4. The writings of a savage / Paul Gauguin ; edited by Daniel Guérin ; with an introduction by Wayne Andersen ; translated by Eleanor Levieux
    Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903
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  3. Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
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  4. The years / Virginia Woolf
    Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
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  1. HEROINE
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Friday 19 April 1946 p 6 Article Illustrated
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  2. IN DIVORCE. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Owen.) SPRING v SPRING.
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  3. Ace Theatre,
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