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| Like her sisters, she was educated at the elite school in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney,{{http://www.ascham.nsw.edu.au/a-strong-history/|Ascham}}.((Miss Wallis, Headmistress to Mrs M-P, n.d. provenance: Jill Fleming; //Ascham Remembered 1886-1986//, Sydney Fine Arts Press, 1986.))\\ | Like her sisters, she was educated at the elite school in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney,{{http://www.ascham.nsw.edu.au/a-strong-history/|Ascham}}.((Miss Wallis, Headmistress to Mrs M-P, n.d. provenance: Jill Fleming; //Ascham Remembered 1886-1986//, Sydney Fine Arts Press, 1986.))\\ |
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| In 1910, Florette married Sydney (Sid) Charles Edgar Herring; his sister Estella married Florette's step-uncle, [[five_children|Robert Sterling M-P]]. Sid Herring was an estate agent at Gladesville, and distinguished himself during World War I, rising to the rank of Brigadier General.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/herring-sydney-charles-edgar-6651}})) Florette followed him when he went overseas, with a number of their letters at the time surviving.((Provenance: Jill Fleming)) She engaged in volunteer war work, with Max Barton writing in 1917 that he thought she was assisting (in what capacity it is not known) at a hospital in Harrow (England). She apparently took her little daughter Diana with her overseas though there is little mention of her in this age of children being seen (on occasion) and not heard.(([[https://maxandtonybartonww1lettershome.wordpress.com/|R.A. Barton letter]])) \\ | In 1910, Florette married Sydney (Sid) Charles Edgar Herring; his sister Estella married Florette's step-uncle, [[five_children|Robert Sterling M-P]]. Sid Herring was an estate agent at Gladesville, and distinguished himself during World War I, rising to the rank of Brigadier General.(({{http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/herring-sydney-charles-edgar-6651}})) Florette followed him when he went overseas, with a number of their letters at the time surviving.((Provenance: Jill Fleming)) She engaged in volunteer war work, with Max Barton writing in 1917 that he thought she was assisting (in what capacity it is not known) at a hospital in Harrow (England).(([https://maxandtonybartonww1lettershome.wordpress.com/|R.A. Barton letter]]) She took her little daughter Diana with her overseas, first to Cairo then England.) \\ |
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| {{ :florette_m-p.jpg?200|}} The photo is of the young Florette.((Provenance: J. Godden to Jill Fleming.)) \\ | {{ :florette_m-p.jpg?200|}} The photo is of the young Florette.((Provenance: J. Godden to Jill Fleming.)) \\ |