Lucy Cane
Irish public servant and assistant director of the Women’s Royal Naval Service during WWI
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Valerie Place
Irish nurse and overseas aid worker
Enid Tapsell
New Zealand nurse, community leader, writer and local politician
Mary Joseph Aubert
Mother Aubert’s career in New Zealand spanned more than six decades. There was scarcely one of these decades in which she did not initiate a new venture or stamp her personality on some major project. Her lasting legacy to New Zealand was the religious order she founded.
Georgina Burgess
New Zealand hotel-keeper, midwife, postmistress
Nell Rose
New Zealand clerk, nurse, nursing administrator, hospital matron
Hikapuhi
Māori healer who came to prominence in 1905
Margaret Huxley
Irish nursing pioneer
Eva Hill
New Zealand medical doctor, medical superintendent, writer, publicist and health campaigner.
Fanny McHugh
Although the work for which she was more widely known was done during and after the First World War, McHugh had striven to enhance the health and welfare of women for nearly half a century.