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Name	Laura Forster
Born	1858 Ryde, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	11 February, 1917 (aged ~ 59) Zaleshchiki, Galicia, Ukraine
Cause of Death	influenza
Related Entries	[View as tree] Kater, Mary Eliza (sister) Forster, Charles Edward (brother) Forster, Lionel Archibald (half-brother) Rutledge, Thomas (brother-in-law) Kater, Henry Edward (brother-in-law) Rutledge, Thomas (uncle by marriage) Forster, Elizabeth (grandmother) Rutledge, William Forster (nephew) Rutledge, Jane Ruth (niece by marriage) Rutledge, William Forster (cousin)
Education *	University of Bern (Switzerland) (student, 1887-1894)
Occupation or Descriptor *	surgeon (1895-1917) Overseas wartime medical volunteer (1912-1917) Overseas
Military Service *	World War I (volunteer doctor) First Balkan War (1912-13) (army nurse)

* Dates are approximate

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