By Steve Hodder
There were 25 military nurses among the thousands of Australians who died in World War 1, one of them was Ada Thompson. Ada was born in Dubbo, to parents William and Anna Thompson in 1885.
Ada’s mother had been married previously to John Windeyer and had four children to him at Bombala from 1856 until his death in 1862. Anna then went on to have another 11 children, three of wh...