Person
Fall, Constance Amy (1903 - 1998)
OBE RRC
- Born
- 13 October 1903
Birmingham, England - Died
- 1998
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Nurse
Summary
Constance Fall trained as a nurse at the Launceston Public Hospital, Tasmania, graduating in 1924. During the Second World War she was Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Tasmania Line of Communication Area and matron-in-charge of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Forces. Fall was mentioned in dispatches in 1941. Other positions held by Fall included Matron at the Quirindi District Hospital, New South Wales and Principal Matron at Eastern Command, New South Wales.
Details
Chronology
- 1942
- Award - Royal Red Cross (RRC) received
- 1976
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Biographical cuttings on Lieutenant Constance Amy Fall, former Principal Matron Australian General Hospital, Middle East, 1942, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61111682. Details
- 'Fall, Constance Amy (1903-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756055. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 10 March 2003, Last modified: 15 June 2022