The Australian Women's Register

Boy and girl in sailor hats standing on the front verandah of their home. This photograph shows Evan and Gwendolen Luly on the front verandah of their family home, 68 Spring St Preston, 1902. They were William and Mary Luly’s children. Gwendolen Luly trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital towards the end of World War I and became Theatre Sister there in the 1920’s. She later ran and owned her own Private Hospital, St Clements, on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets St Kilda South.