Stacey Thompson
US Marine Corps veteran who received an “Other Than Honorable” discharge after reporting a sexual assault by a senior officer. After years of litigation, she received a discharge upgrade from Department of Defense.
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Beatrice Ball
Newspaper accounts from 1941 describe her as “an expert pistol shot, a rodeo rider, a professional basketball player and coach, a physical director, a schoolma’m, a law school graduate, and a trained detective”—and all before she was 39 years old.
Helen Grace McClelland
US Army Veteran Helen Grace McClelland served as a nurse during World War I.
Marcella Hayes Ng
The first female African American pilot to serve in the US military
Barbara June Stone
Barbara June Stone served in the US Navy WAVES program as a yeoman third class during World War II
Mary Ann Byrne
Irish nationalist who, when seven months pregnant, delivered the surgical knives used in the assassination of Cavendish and Burke to the Invincibles in Dublin in February 1882 by concealing them under her skirts. On another occasion she brought them a rifle, two revolvers, and a large quantity of ammunition.
Ethel Gray
Ethel Gray enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Australian Imperial Force, on 9 February 1915 as matron. Over the subsequent five years Gray was matron of several hospitals in England and France, returning to Australia in 1920.
Beatrice Gubbins
Irish watercolour artist and traveller
Ellen Barron
Ellen Barron worked at the Queensland Government Baby Clinics from 1918. From 1923-1939 she was superintendent of the Baby Clinics and started a training course for infant nurses. She was a foundation member and trustee of the Nurses’ Rest Home and Benevolent Fund.
Eleanor Elizabeth Bourne
Eleanor Bourne went into general practice in 1907 and served as physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane. In 1911 she became medical officer for the Department of Public Instruction and worked for many years in child health, both in Australia and Britain.