Annie Laidlow served in India with the Australian Army Nursing Service during WWI. Between the wars Laidlow continued to work at the Royal Children’s Hospital, rising to the position of lady superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section. When the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service was established in 1942, Laidlow was appointed superintending sister and head of the service.
Annie Moriah Sage’s distinguished military nursing career in the Second World War included the introduction of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service Training Scheme and she was closely involved in the planning and establishment of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps as an integral part of the Australian Regular Army and the Citizen Military Forces.
In 1929 she completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (BAgSc) at the University of Melbourne, returning in 1937 to undertake a Diploma in Dietetics. Cahn returned to the university yet again, in 1947, when she commenced a 21 year career lecturing in dietetics.
Biddy Moriarty undertook Australian Red Cross work with repatriated prisoners of war during the final years of the war, which included being a member of the Red Cross contingent assisting the 2nd POW Reception Group in Singapore.
Indian warrior queen
US Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut
She graduated from the US Army School of Nursing in 1929 and was one of the school’s few alumnae to join the Army Nurse Corps.
She graduated from the Yale School of Nursing in 1934 and worked as a nurse in a hospital in Bridgeport, CT. Leahy enlisted in the Navy in 1943 because she thought “nurses would be needed” and that she could help.
American archaeologist and WWI nurse
The first Chinese American woman to work at the Charlestown Navy Yard and an advocate for military veterans.