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Lavinia Loughridge

Irish nephrologist and physician

Dr Margaret Dunlevy

Irish physician and epidemiologist

Grace Alexandra Rood

New Zealand dental nurse

Grace Hirst

New Zealand farmer, midwife, nurse and businesswoman

A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.

Vivian Bullwinkel

Vivian Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service in May 1941 and sailed to Singapore. She survived ‘The Bangka Island Massacre,’ where she was shot in the back and pretended to be dead until the Japanese soldiers left. She spent more than three years a prison camp.

Elsie Dalyell

The first female full-time demonstrator at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1911-1912. She studied and worked in Europe 1912-1923 and on return to Australia became a microbiologist with the Department of Public Health, Sydney 1924-1946.