Ina Watson worked professionally as Publicity Officer for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department in Victoria, but all her spare time was devoted to birds. She was an excellent field observer and photographer who contributed both photographs and text to a number of nature journals and published natural history stories for children including Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird (1946).
Eva Adeline Shipton was the founder of what has become known as Sydney Diagnostic Services, when she commenced her private pathology practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney in 1928.
Dorothy Frances Forsaith was Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Western Australia from 1924 to 1927. In 1936 she was appointed Honorary Director, then Administrator of the Australian Red Cross’s Blood Transfusion Service.
Gertrude Grogan was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), New South Wales, during the Second World War.
Rita Stang was medical officer of schools in the Western Australian Public Health Department from 1925, and supervisor of infant health in Western Australia from 1929, until her retirement in 1955. She worked to improve hygiene and children’s diets and put many measures into place to assist families in isolated areas with mothercraft.
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.
Hilda Gardner was a pioneer of laboratory medicine in Australia, with a particular interest in infections and infectious diseases.
Australian army matron-in-chief, army nurse and nurse educator.
Doris Officer was Clinical Assistant in Children’s Outpatients, Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne 1930-1947 and Medical Officer, Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria from 1941.
Hilda Kincaid was medical officer (child welfare) for the Melbourne City Council from 1927 until her retirement in 1952