Dr Annie Hensley
Dr Annie Hensley was appointed coordinator of the Melbourne City Council’s first campaign to combat dyptheria in 1924.
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Annie Ina Laidlaw
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 Bellew McCann
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.
Annie Richards
Annie Richards collected plants between the mid-1870s and the 1890s which she sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. Over 400 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Annie Moriah Sage
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.
Dr Aola Mary Richards
Aola Richards was an renowned entomologist much of whose research was on the taxonomy of cave crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) of Australia and New Zealand.
Audrey Cahn
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.
Barbara Gillian Briggs
Barbara Briggs joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales in November 1969 as a Botanist and later became a Research Scientist, Assistant Director (Herbarium) and then Senior Assistant Director (Scientific).
Barbara Fawkes
Barbara Fawkes trained as a nurse and midwife at the Middlesex Hospital School of Nursing, England, 1934-1938. She continued her nursing career into the post-World War II era.
Alma Theodora Lee
Alma Lee was a botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales from 1938.