Australian Army Nursing Service
ARMY NURSING SERVICE – The Australian Army Nursing Service was formed in 1902.
A total of 2139 served abroad, of whom 25 dies. They attended to all wounded Australians in all major campaigns including Egypt, Salonika (Greece), Lemnos Island (off Gallipoli), England and France
Australian women known to have served with this unit
ANDERSON, Margaret - RRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
ANDREWS, Gertrude Jessie - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
BARTLETT, May - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Services in India
BARTON, A - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
BAXTER, Jessie Macdonald - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
BENNETT, Alma - RRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
BISHOP, EE - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
BOISSIER, Phyllis Mary - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
BOLTON, Ethel May - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in the Balkans
BONNAR, Agnes Grace - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
BORWICK, Isabella Tait - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
BOUGHTON, Lucy - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
BROWN, Ellen Bennett - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
BROWNE, Emily Gertrude - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Services in India
BRYDON, Jean - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in the Balkans
BUCHANAN, Jessie Helena - RRC, 1919 AANS - 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
BUCKHAM, Jean Binnie - ARRC, 1917 AANS - with QAIMNS
BURNS, Grace Helena - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
BUTLER, Ethel B - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
CAMERON, Edith Clare - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
CAMPBELL, Beryl Anderson - RRC, 1918 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
CASHIN, Alice Ellen - RRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
CAWOOD, Dorothy Gwendoline - MM, 1917 AUST ANS. MM 28/9/1917 LOND GAZ 30312
Nurse and Servicewoman
Born: 9 December 1884 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 16 February 1962 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
Dorothy Cawood commenced her nursing training in 1909, and on 14 November 1914 enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). On 22 July 1917, while attached to the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Armentieres, Cawood along with two other sisters, Clare Deacon and Alice Ross-King (later Appleford), evacuated patients from burning buildings while the station was being bombed. All three sisters were awarded Military Medals for their action. Later, while stationed at the 6th Australian General Hospital, Cawood was mentioned in despatches for 'distinguished and gallant service in the field'. At the end of the war, Cawood joined the nursing staff at the State Hospital (Liverpool) and in 1928 became matron at the David Berry Hospital, Berry, a position she held until her retirement in 1943.
Dorothy Cawood never married and died on 16 February 1962
CHAPMAN, Eva Helen - RRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
CONNOLLY, Eileen Love - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
CONYERS, Evelyn Augusta – RRC 1916, CBE(M) 1919, Australian Army Nursing Service
Matron and Servicewoman
Born: 1 March 1870 Invercargill, New Zealand. Died: 6 September 1944.
Evelyn Conyers was appointed to the Order of the British Empire - Commander (Military) on 22 March 1919 for nursing service with the army during World War I. She had previously been awarded the Royal Red Cross on 3 June 1916
Born and educated in New Zealand, Evelyn Conyers migrated to Victoria, Australia in the 1890s. After training at the Children's (1894) and Melbourne (1896) hospitals she became matron of a private hospital in Melbourne in 1901.
Active in professional nurse's organisations, in 1903 she helped found the Victorian Trained Nurses' Association. When the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital at Fairfield was established in 1904, Evelyn Conyers became the first matron. In 1907, she and Sister Jessie MacBeth opened a private hospital in Kew.
An original member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in the Third Military District, Evelyn Conyers sailed on the Shropshire on 20 October 1914. Aged 45 years, she was appointed matron-in-chief, Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 12 January 1916. She held this position until she was discharged on 6 March 1920. During this time she worked closely with the Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Service (QAIMNS) British Expeditionary Force (BEF) Miss (Dame from 1918) Maud McCarthy.
Evelyn Conyers was appointed to the Order of the British Empire - Commander (Military) on 22 March 1919 for nursing service with the army during World War I. She had previously been awarded the Royal Red Cross on 3 June 1916.
After the war Evelyn Conyers returned to 'Lancewood' Private Hospital in Kew, Victoria. She was appointed to the board set up under the provisions of the Nurses' Registration Act (1923), was made a Life Member of the Royal Victorian College of Nurses, was a founder and director of the Victorian Trained Nurses Club Ltd, and a member of the Victorian branch of the Australian Nursing Federation. Evelyn Conyers also was a member of the board of management of the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, a trustee of the Edith Cavell Trust Fund, and belonged to the Returned Nurses' Club.
On 6 September 1944 Evelyn Conyers died at Epworth Private Hospital, Richmond and was buried with full military honours in Boroondara cemetery, Kew.
COOKE, Elsie May - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
COOMBES, Annie Isobel - ARRC, 1919 AANS - 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
COOPER, Alice Mary - RRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
COOPER, Alice Mary - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
CORKHILL, Pearl Elizabeth - MM, 1918 LOND GAZ 30858
CORNWELL, Edith - ARRC, 1917, RRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
CRAVEN, Mary Lee - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
CREAL, Rose - RRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
CRESSWICK, Blanche - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
CUTHBERT, Emma Argyle - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
DALYELL, Elizabeth - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
DAVIDSON, Ethel Sarah - ARRC, 1916, RRC, 1918, CBE(M), 1919 , Australian Army Nursing Service
Nurse and Servicewoman
Born: 19 June 1872 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Died: 21 April 1939 Semaphore, South Australia, Australia
Ophaned at the age of five, Ethel Davidson grew up with her half-brothers and sisters - children from her father's first marriage. After completing her nursing training at Adelaide Hospital, she worked in district and private nursing.
In 1904 Davidson became a reserve member of the Australian Army Nursing Service, enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in 1914. During World War I she was stationed at Mena, Cairo, where she was mentioned in despatches. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal, 2nd class, for her nursing service in England and France. On 3 June 1919 Davidson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military) for services to army nursing.
After leaving the army, Davidson became matron of the military hospital at Keswick (SA), a post she held until her retirement in 1933. From 1922 to 1926 she was president of the Returned Army Nurses' Association of South Australia. In 1924 the Association became a sub-branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League.
Ethel Davidson never married and died on 21 April 1939. She is buried in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) cemetery, West Terrace, Adelaide.
DAVIS, Gertrude - RRC, 1920 AANS - Service in the Afghan War
DEACON, Clare - MM, 1917 AUST ANS MM LOND GAZ 30312
DEMENT, Ethel Maud - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
DEMESTRE, Sarah Melanie - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
DERRER, Mary Jane - MM, 1917 AUST ANS. MM 28/9/1917 LOND GAZ 30312
DICKSON, Clarice Molyneux - RRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
DOHERTY, Gertrude Marion - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
DONALDSON, Katherine Minnie - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
DOUGLAS, Alice Grace - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
DOWSLEY, Annie Elizabeth - RRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
ECHLIN, Gladys Ivy - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
ELDRIDGE, Margaret Francis - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
FIELDING, Marie Ruth - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
FINLAY, Mary Mackenzie - RRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
FISHER, Mary Ellen - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
FLEMING, Elizabeth Gertrude - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
FURNISS, Alma Ethel May - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
GEMMELL, Jessie Ross - RRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
GEOGHEGAN, Elizabeth - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
GIBBINGS, Beatrice May - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
GIBBON, Beatrice - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
GIBSON, Jessie - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Services in India
GILLILAND, Winifred Anna Cameron - ARRC, 1920 AANS - Service in the Afghan War
GOULD, Ellen Julia - RRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
Nurse
Born: 29 March 1860 Aberystruth, Monmouthshire, Wales. Died: 19 July 1941 Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Appointed lady superintendent of the New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve (NSWANSR), Nellie Gould left Australia on 17 January 1900 with thirteen nursing sisters to serve in the Boer War as part of the British Army. The nursing contingent returned to Australia in 1902.
On 27th September 1914 Nellie Gould enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served in Egypt, caring for Gallipoli casualties, followed by service in France and then England. She returned to Australia in January 1919 and was discharged on 3 March. She was unfit to take up nursing duties again and from 1920 she received a war service pension.
In 1916 Nellie Gould was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (1st class) for her war work
Nellie Gould was involved in founding the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association (ATNA) and was a council member from 1899 until her retirement in 1921. She also initiated the publishing of the ATNA journal in 1903 and served on the editorial committee.
Nellie Gould died at Neutral Bay on 19 July 1941
GRAHAM, Margaret - RRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
Nurse and Matron
Born: 15 February 1860 Carlisle, Cumberland, England. Died: 4 July 1942.
Margaret Graham began work at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1891, becoming a charge nurse in 1894, holding this position until her dismissal in 1895 for alleged insubordination (see the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9). Graham was eventually reinstated in 1896 after a Royal Commission into the management of the hospital. Graham was a foundation member of the South Australian Branch of the Royal British Nurses' Association and its 'elected lady counsel' from 1900-1920. In 1914 she became the first lady superintendent of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), and was one of the first three nurses to leave Australia on active service for the AANS, Australian Imperial Force. For her role as matron with the AANS, Graham was awarded the Royal Red Cross (1 January 1917).
GRAY, Ethel - RRC, 1916 , CBE(M), 1919, Australian Army Nursing Service
GREAVES, I - RRC, 1915 Australian Army Nursing Service
GREEN, Clarice - ARRC, 1919 AANS - 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
GREIG, Elsie Stewart - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
HANCOCK, AM - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
HART, Esther - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
HART, Julia Mary - RRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Italy
HEDDERMAN, Ellen Ethel Jean - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
HODSON, Ada - ARRC, 1920 AANS - Service in the Afghan War
HOMAN, Helen Marie Maud - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
HORNE, Elizabeth - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
HUTT, Evelyn Victoria - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Italy
HUTTON, Eileen Isabel - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
JARRETT, Gladys Webster - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
JEFFRIES, Eleanor Wibmer - ARRC, 1917, RRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
JOHNSON, A B - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
JONES, Hilda Fanny - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Services in India
JONES, Maggie - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Egypt
KEITH, Helen - ARRC, 1919 AANS - 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
KELLETT, Adelaide Maud - RRC, 1917, CBE(M), 1919, Australian Army Nursing Service
Matron
On 3 June 1919, Matron Adelaide Maud Kellett was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military) for nursing service in World War I. Kellett had been twice mentioned in despatches during the war. She was awarded the Red Cross Medal (23 February 1917), and the Florence Nightingale Medal.
Adelaide Kellet trained at the Sydney Hospital and served with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during World War I. She left Australia with the first convoy of Australian Imperial Forces (AIF). Kellett was matron of Choubrah Hospital, Egypt (1914-1916), before nursing at the No. 2 Australian Army Hospital in Southall, England, from 1916-1917. Later she was matron at the No. 25 General Hospital in Hardelot, France (1917-1919).
Returning to Sydney, Kellet nursed at the No. 4 Australian General Hospital in Randwick (New South Wales) in 1920. She was the first matron with the Department of Repatriation Hospitals in New South Wales. From 1920 to 1926 she was principal matron of the Australian Army Nursing Service 2nd Military Base in Sydney. Kellet retired in 1944 after 23 years as matron at the Sydney Hospital.
1914 – 1916 Matron of the Choubrah Hospital, Egypt
1916 – 1917 Matron of the No. 2 Australian Army Hospital, Southall England
1917 – 1919 Matron of the No. 25 General Hospital, Hardelot France
23 February 1917 Awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal
3 June 1919 - Appointed Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire
1920 Matron of the No. 4 Australian General Hospital, Randwick NSW
1920 – 1926 Principal Matron of the Australian Army Nursing Service 2nd Military Base, Sydney
1921 – 1944 Matron of Sydney Hospital
KELLY, Alicia Mary - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
KEMP, Alice Annie - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
KENNEDY, Josephine Millicent - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
KEYS, Constance Mabel - RRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
KEYS, J M - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
KIDD, Ruby Gourlav - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
KIDD-HART, A - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
KING, Alice Ross - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
ROSS-KING, Alice - MM, 1917 VMM 28/9/1917 LOND GAZ 30312, ARRC 3/6/1918 LOND GAZ 30716 AUST ANS
Servicewoman, Nurse and Nursing administrator
Born: 5 August 1891 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Died: 17 August 1968 Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia.
During World War I Alice Ross-King (as she was then known) was a Sister in the Australian Army Nursing Service. Mentioned twice in despatches, she was awarded the Military Medal on 28 September 1917 and the Royal Red Cross Medal on the 4 June 1918. She married Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney T Appleford of the Australian Army Medical Corps on 21 August 1919. They had four children. She assisted her husband in establishing a first-aid military unit and during the 1930s became involved with the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments. Appleford enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Women's Service during World War II. She was promoted to the rank of Major in September 1942 and awarded the Florence Nightingale medal by the International Red Cross in 1949.
Alice Appleford died on 17 August 1968 at Cronulla, Sydney and is buried in Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne
KING, Amy - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
LINKLATER, Elma Mary - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
LOVELL, Ilma Gertrude - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
MACDONALD, Eva Isobel - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
MACDONALD, Sadie Charlotte - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
MACKENZIE, Lily - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service with British forces in Italy
MARSHALL, Clementine Hay - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
McDONALD, Jessie Buchanan - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
McHARDIE-WHITE, Jessie - RRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
Nurse and Servicewoman
Born: 24 July 1870 Yarra Flats (Yering), Victoria, Australia. Died: 26 October 1957 East Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
After her husband's death in 1896 Jessie White commenced her four year general training at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. She completed her midwifery training at the Women's Hospital (later Royal) in 1901. Five years later she was in charge and running her own private hospital as well as serving as a reservist in the Australian Army Nursing Service.
At the outbreak of World War I White enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. In October 1914 she travelled with the first convoy to Egypt where she was attached to a British Hospital. During the Dardanelles campaign she worked on a hospital ship which carried patients from Gallipoli to the hospitals on Lemnos Island. In December 1915 White was transferred to England where under the re-organization of the Australian Army Medical Corps she was appointed Principal Matron of the Australian Army Nusing Service. On 3 June 1916 White was awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st class) for her services. Due to personal reasons she resigned from the Service and returned to Australia.
On 5 June 1917 White rejoined the Service and departed for Salonika where she was given the task of staffing four British general hospitals. While ministering to the sick and wounded soldiers the nurses had to contend with terrible living conditions, the extremities in temperatures, fire, snow, mud, malaria, dysentry, typhus, flies, lice, lack of food supplies, marauders and friction from the British medicos.
In recognition of her service White was mentioned in despatches, awarded the Greek Medal for Military Merit, the Serbian Order of the St Sava and on 7 June 1918 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
She returned to nursing in civilian life in August 1919 and continued working until she was in her 70s. White was active in the Returned Nurses Association especially the Salonika Sister's Group of which she was President for 25 years
McINTOSH, Lucy - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
McNAUGHTON, Catherine - RRC, 1919 AANS - No 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
McNULTY, Margaret - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
MEADE, Ethel May - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
MEARS, Minnie Victoria - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
MENHENNET, Edith May - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
MILES-WALKER, JN - RRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
MILLS, Violet Annie - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
MOBERLEY, Gertrude France - RRC, 1919 AANS - Service in India
MOLLOY, Jane Elizabeth Beobridge - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service in India
MORRICE, Nellie Constance - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
MOSEY, Elizabeth - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
NAGLE, Nano - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service with British forces in Egypt
NEWTON, Dorothy Jane Louisa - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
NICHOLLS, Florence Annie - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
NICHOLSON, Mary Evaline - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service with British forces in Egypt
NOBBS, Evelyn Jane - ARRC, 1919 AANS - No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
O'CONNOR, Catherine - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
O'DWYER, Ida - ARRC, 1917, RRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
O'NEILL, Angus Ellen - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
PATEN, Eunice Muriel - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
PERRY, EA - ARRC, 1919 AANS (Unverified)
PETERS, Ethel Alice - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
PIDGEON, Elsie Clare - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
POCOCK, Bessie - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
Nurse and Servicewoman
Born: 20 July 1863 Dalby, Queensland, Australia. Died: 16 July 1946 Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.
A member of the New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve (NSWANSR), Bessie Pocock served in the Boer War. She was awarded the Queen's and the King's South Africa medals and mentioned in despatches. Once again Pocock enlisted in the defence force at the outbreak of World War I. Serving in Cairo and Ismailia (Egypt) Pocock was later a matron on hospital ships. On 2 May 1916 Bessie Pocock was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (2nd class) for her service with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS)
Before commencing her nursing training at Sydney Hospital in 1890, Bessie Pocock worked as a domestic. Upon completion she joined the hospital staff as a Sister. In 1899 Pocock became a member of the New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve (NSWANSR) and served in the Boer War being posted to hospitals in London, Johannesburg and Middleburg. She was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Queen's and the King's South Africa medals. After the war she returned to her position at the Sydney Hospital. From 1907 until 1911 Bessie became matron of the Newcastle Hospital and later (1911-1914) at Gladesville.
During World War I Pocock served with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in hospitals at Cairo and Ismailia (Egypt). She was then matron of the Hospital Ship Assaye before being stationed at Marseilles and Wimereux (France), followed by Trois Arbres (Belgium), and then Boulogne and England. On 2 May 1916 Sister Bessie Pocock was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (2nd class) and she had been twice mentioned in despatches.
After the war Pocock returned to Gladesville Hospital as matron. Before retiring she set up a convalescent hospital at Chatswood called 'Ismailia.' She remained an active member of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association of which she became a life member as well as the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve.
Bessie Pocock never married and was looked after by her nieces until she died on 16 July 1946
PORTER, Katherine Lawrence - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
PRATT, Laura Cumming - ARRC, 1916, RRC, 1919, Australian Army Nursing Service
PRICHARD, Alice Marion - RRC, 1919 AANS - British forces in Salonika - MBE©, 1951 Matron of St George's Hospital in Kogarah, NSW
PROCTOR, Minnie Farquharson - RRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
QUARTERMAN, Rosa Elizabeth Kate - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
REEVES, Letitia - ARRC, 1918 AANS - Australian Auxiliary Hospital
REGAN, Elizabeth - ARRC, 1919 AANS - No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
RICHARDSON, Ethel Tracy - RRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
RICHMOND, Daisy - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
RINDER, Lily Jane - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
ROBERTS, Annie Florence - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service in India
ROCHE, Anastasia - RRC, 1919 AANS - No 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital
ROSS, Clara Louisa - RRC, 1918, OBE(M), 1919 ARMY- Australian Army Nursing Services
RUSH, Edith Dawson - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
RUSSELL, M - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
RUTHERFORD, Lilian Jana - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
SCOTT, Winifred Merlina - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service with British forces in Egypt
SHACKELL, CE - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
SMITH, Ethel - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
SMITH, Winifred Jean - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
SNELLING, Louisa - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
SORENSON, Christine - ARRC, 1918 RRC, 1919, Australian Army Nursing Service - AANS - British forces in the Balkans
SOUTER, Ethel Jeanett - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
SPALDING, Florence E - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
STEEL, Vera - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service on the Indian frontier
STEWART, Lili - ARRC, 1920 AANS - Service in Persia (Bushire force)
STOBO, Louisa - RRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
STONE, Constance Adelaide - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
STRIKLAND / STRICKLAND, Ethel Maud - ARRC, 1917, RRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
TAIT, Helen Elizabeth - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
THOMAS, Tessa Evelyn - ARRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service
TWYNAM, Alice Joan - RRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
UREN, Ethelda Runnals - RRC, 1919 AANS - British forces in Salonika
VEENAN, Margarite - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service
WALSHE, Minnie - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service in India
WATERSTROM, Margaret Brodie - ARRC, 1918 AANS - Service in Persia (Bushire force)
WEBB, Dorothy Francis - ARRC, 1918 Australian Army Nursing Service
WELLARD, Emmeline Louisa - ARRC, 1920 AANS - Service in Persia (Bushire force)
WEST, Annie Elizabeth - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
WHITE, Elizabeth Jane - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service with British forces in Egypt
WHITE, Jessie McHardie - MBE(M), 1918 ARMY - Australian Army Nursing Service
Nurse and Servicewoman
Born: 24 July 1870 Yarra Flats (Yering), Victoria, Australia. Died: 26 October 1957 East Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
After her husband's death in 1896 Jessie White commenced her four year general training at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. She completed her midwifery training at the Women's Hospital (later Royal) in 1901. Five years later she was in charge and running her own private hospital as well as serving as a reservist in the Australian Army Nursing Service.
At the outbreak of World War I White enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. In October 1914 she travelled with the first convoy to Egypt where she was attached to a British Hospital. During the Dardanelles campaign she worked on a hospital ship which carried patients from Gallipoli to the hospitals on Lemnos Island. In December 1915 White was transferred to England where under the re-organization of the Australian Army Medical Corps she was appointed Principal Matron of the Australian Army Nusing Service. On 3 June 1916 White was awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st class) for her services. Due to personal reasons she resigned from the Service and returned to Australia.
On 5 June 1917 White rejoined the Service and departed for Salonika where she was given the task of staffing four British general hospitals. While ministering to the sick and wounded soldiers the nurses had to contend with terrible living conditions, the extremities in temperatures, fire, snow, mud, malaria, dysentry, typhus, flies, lice, lack of food supplies, marauders and friction from the British medicos.
In recognition of her service White was mentioned in despatches, awarded the Greek Medal for Military Merit, the Serbian Order of the St Sava and on 7 June 1918 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
She returned to nursing in civilian life in August 1919 and continued working until she was in her 70s. White was active in the Returned Nurses Association especially the Salonika Sister's Group of which she was President for 25 years.
WILLIAMS, Fanny Eleanor - ARRC, 1917 Australian Army Nursing Service - MBE©, 1957 Walter & Eliza Hall Research Institute
Pathologist, Bacteriologist and Nurse
Born: 1890? Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Died: 1963.
Fanny Eleanor Williams was one of the first three staff members of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. She was responsible for the training and control of technicians, and according to Sir Macfarlane Burnet and Dr Ian Wood, 'she was the channel through which serological techniques developed in Melbourne'. Fanny Williams was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (2nd Class) on 1 January 1917 for her work in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was appointed MBE - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil) - 13 June 1957, for her work at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
WILSON, Evelyn Clara - RRC, 1919 AANS - British forces in the Balkans
WILSON, Grace Margaret - RRC, 1916 Australian Army Nursing Service - CBE(M), 1919
ARMY - Army Nursing Services in France
Matron
Born: 1879 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died: 1957.
During World War I Grace Wilson was Principal Matron of No 3 Australian General Hospital serving in Egypt, Lemnos and France. She was appointed a Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1919 for army nursing service in France. Grace Wilson was mentioned in dispatches five times as well as being awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal (2 May 1916) and the Florence Nightingale Medal.
After being educated at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School, Grace Wilson commenced her nursing training at Brisbane Hospital and continued at Queen Charlotte Hospital (London). Upon completion she became a sister at Albany Memorial Hospital (London) and then returned to Australia to be Matron at the Brisbane Hospital.
During World War I Wilson was Principal Matron No. 3 Australian General Hospitals in Egypt, Lemnos and France. She then became temporary Matron-in-chief for the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF). Wilson was mentioned in dispatches five times, awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal and Royal Red Cross Medal as well as being appointed a Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1919 for army nursing service. In 1937 she led the A.I.F. Nurses' Contingent to the Coronation.
During her career Wilson was matron at Rosemount Military Hospital, Brisbane, and the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and was sister-in-charge at Somerset House Private Hospital, Melbourne. From 1933 to 1940 she was matron at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and at the outbreak of World War II became matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service (A.A.N.S). From 1940 to 1941 Wilson was matron-in-chief of the Nursing Service with the A.I.F., before becoming executive officer with the Nursing Control Section at the Manpower Directorate.
Matron Grace Margaret Wilson died in 1957.
WOODS, Margaret - ARRC, 1919 AANS - Service with British forces in Egypt
WRAY, Minnie - ARRC, 1919 AANS (Unverified)
YOUNG, May Florence - ARRC, 1919 AANS - With British forces in Salonika
ZICHY-WOINARSKI, Valerie Henrietta - ARRC, 1919 Australian Army Nursing Service
Abbreviations
ARRC - The Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
BEM© - The Order of the British Empire (Civil)
CBE© - The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Civil)
CBE(M) - The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Military)
DBE© - The Order of the British Empire - Dames Commander
ISM - Imperial Service Medal
KCBC - King's Commendation for Brave Conduct
MBE© - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil)
MBE(M) - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Military)
MM - The Military Medal
OBE© - The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil)
OBE(M) - The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Military)
QGM - The Queen's Gallantry Medal
RRC - The Royal Red Cross
Reference:
Faith, Hope, Charity - Australian Women and Imperial Honours:1901-1989
http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/
DIED DURING THE WAR
BICKNELL, Louisa Annie, Sr
BORN Abbotsford, Vic
DIED/BURIED Egypt / Cairo
DIED25 Jun 1915
AGE
CLARE, Emily, Sr
BORN Footscray, Vic
DIED/BURIED India
DIED 17 Oct 1918
AGE 28
DICKINSON, Ruby, Sr
BORN Forbes, NSW
DIED/BURIED Cowley, Middlesex
DIED 23 Jun 1918
AGE 32
GREWAR, Gertrude Agnes, Sr
BORN Swanwater, Vic
DIED/BURIED Waverley General Cemetery, NSW
DIED24 May 1921
AGE
HENNESSY, May, Sr
BORN Castlemaine, Vic
DIED/BURIED Bendigo, Vic
DIED 9 Apr 1919
AGE 25
KNOX, Hilda Mary, Sr
BORN Benalla, Vic
DIED/BURIED France/ St Sever Cemetery, Rouen
DIED 17 Feb 1917
AGE 33
MCPHAIL, Irene, S/Nurse
BORN Echuca, Vic
DIED/BURIED Brighton General Cemetery, Vic
DIED 4 Aug 1920
AGE
MOORHOUSE, Edith Ann, Sr
BORN Undera, Vic
DIED/BURIED France / Lille Southern Cemetery
DIED 24 Nov 1918
AGE 33
MORETON, Letetia Gladys, Sr
BORN Brim, Vic
DIED/BURIED India, Quetta Govt Cemetery
DIED 11 Nov 1916
AGE 26
MOWBRAY, Norma Violet, Staff Nurse
BORN St George, Qld
DIED/BURIED Cairo War Memorial Cemetery
DIED 21 Jan 1916
AGE 32
MUNRO, Gertrude Evelyn, Sr
BORN Ballarat, Vic
DIED/BURIED Greece/ Mikra British Cemetery, Salonika
DIED 10 Sep 1918
AGE 36
NUGENT, Lily, Staff Nurse
BORN
DIED/BURIED St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
DIED 21 Feb 1918
AGE
O'GRADY, Amy Veda, Sr
BORN Castlemaine, Vic
DIED/BURIED India / Bombay
DIED 12 Aug 1916
AGE 41
O'KANE, Rosa, Sr
BORN Charters Towers, Qld
DIED/BURIED Woodman's Point, WA
DIED 21 Dec 1918
AGE 27
PORTER, Katherine, Agnes Lawrence, Sr
BORN Milton, NSW
DIED/BURIED NSW / Waverley Cemetery
DIED16 Jul 1919
AGE
POWER, Kathleen, Sr
BORN Ireland, enlisted Melbourne
DIED/BURIED India/Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery
DIED 13 Aug 1918
AGE 28
RIDGWAY, Doris Alice, Sr
BORN Salters Springs
DIED/BURIED Woodman's Point, WA
DIED6 Jan 1919
AGE27
ROTHERY, Elizabeth, Sr
BORN Hensingham
DIED/BURIED Beechworth, Vic
DIED 15 Jun 1918
AGE 33
STAFFORD, Mary Florence, Sr
BORN Nyngan, NSW
DIED/BURIED Torres Park, SA
DIED 20 Mar 1919
AGE 27
THOMPSON, Ada Mildred, Sr
BORN Dubbo, NSW
DIED/BURIED Western Australia
DIED 1 Jan 1919
AGE 33
TYSON, Fanny Isobel Catherine, Sr
BORN Balranald, NSW
DIED/BURIED Wiltshire, UK/Sutton Veny Churchyard
DIED 20 Apr 1919
AGE 28
WALKER, Jean Miles, Mtrn
BORN Tasmania
DIED/BURIED Wiltshire, UK/Sutton Veny Churchyard
DIED 30 Oct 1918
AGE 39
WATSON, Beatrice Middleton, Sr
BORN Elsternwick, Vic
DIED/BURIED Egypt/Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery
DIED 2 Jun 1916
AGE 34
WILLIAMS, Blodwyn Elizabeth, Sr
BORN Ballarat, Vic
DIED/BURIED Caulfield/ Ballarat Cemetery
DIED 24 May 1920
AGE 38
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Australian women known to have served with this unit
Staff Nurses
E R M Jones
Kathleen Blanche Gawler
Mary M Loughron
Nurses
E Munden
S Mciver
M A Ward
E Dilnot
G A Nye
Elsie Hughes
Constance O'shea
W Solling
May Dickson
BUCKHAM, Jean Binnie - ARRC, 1917 AANS - with QAIMNS
CASHIN, Alice Ellen - RRC, 1918 QAIMNS®
DONALDSON, Edith Victoria - ARRC, 1918 QAIMNS (Australia)
HODGE, Katie Payne - RRC, 1918 QAIMNS (Australia)
JOBSON, Isobella Kate - ARRC, 1918 QAIMNS (Australia)
KEOGH, Estelle Venner - RRC, 1918 QAIMNS (Australia)
RAYE, MA - ARRC, 1916 QAIMNS (Australia)
REAY, Anne Victoria - ARRC, 1918 QAIMNS (Australia)
TABOR, LA - ARRC, 1916 QAIMNS (Australia)
WYLLIE, Agnes - ARRC, 1917 QAIMNS (Australia
Territorial Force Nursing Service
Australian women known to have served with this unit
Sisters
Elizabeth Wilson
The Scottish Women’s Hospitals (1914-1919)
Australian women known to have served with this unit
Doctors
Dr Agnes Bennett – chief medical officer
Dr Elsie Dalyell
Dr Mary Clementina De Garis
Dr Lilian Violet Cooper,
Dr Laura Margaret (Fowler) Hope
Nurses
Sister Sterling (?Stirling)
Sister Edith Mackay
Orderlies
Millicent Sylvia Armstrong,
Ambulance Drivers
Olive May King
Voluntary Workers
Josephine Bedford
Stella Maria (Marian) Sarah Miles Franklin
Administration
Margaret Emily Hodge,
Harriet Christina Newcomb
Voluntary Aid Detachment
Australian women known to have served with this unit
Jessie C A Traill
Elsie E C Rogen
Mildred L. Davies
Effie Garden
Doris Grey
Ivy Elsie Arden
Dora Wilcox,
Miss Hamilton
Avis Sharpe
Nurse Grey
F.M. Ewington
Kathleen Adele Brennan
The Mobile Hospital of Mrs Bordern Turner
The Mobile Hospital was established by Mrs Bordern Turner, a rich American woman, to operate behind the lines on the Western Front.
Australian women known to have served with this unit
In 1917-18 she employed, through the Australian Red Cross, four Australians to nurse wounded French soldiers at her Hopital Chirurgical Mobile No. 1, situated first at Beverau, twenty miles from Dunkirk
These were
Sisters
Lynette Crozier,
Minnie Hough,
Hilda Loxton
??? Wallace.
They were among twenty trained civilian nurses who volunteered in Australia in 1916 for service in French hospitals
