Ethel Rose Douglas (Nurse) born in Ballarat was 33 years old when she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt on September 20th 1915. She had previously spent three years at the Ballarat Hospital and had also nursed in New Zealand. While in Egypt she served at the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital. In January 1917 she was moved to England, and in February she moved across to France, attached to the 13th Australian General Hospital. She served there until she was assigned to the nursing staff of the Suevic for a return to Australia in September 1917. She re-joined the AANS on February 11th 1918 and was assigned to the Sea Transport Section. She embarked just two weeks later on February 28th, on the Nestor, and sailed to England, disembarking at Liverpool on April 20th. She served at the 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital until she returned on the Wyreema in late 1918.

Her cousin Robin was killed in action in France on August 18th 1916 and is also honoured with a tree in the Avenue.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Rose Douglas.