Person
Kirkcaldie, Rosa Angela (1887 - 1972)
- Born
- 3 June 1887
Homebush, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 4 August 1972
Collaroy, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Nurse and Hospital administrator
Summary
Rosa Kirkcaldie returned to her native Sydney after serving in World War 1 as a nurse. She became a matron at the Royal Prince Alfred and Cornbury Hospitals and from 1924-1945 was matron at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and authored "In Grey and Scarlet" (1922).
Archival resources
Australian War Memorial Research Centre
- Rosa Angela Kirkcaldie - Records; Australian War Memorial Research Centre. Details
Royal Alexandra Hospital Archives, Sydney
- Rosa Angela Kirkcaldie - Records; Royal Alexandra Hospital Archives, Sydney. Details
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- Rosa Angela Kirkcaldie - Records; Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. 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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Lincoln, Merrilyn, 'Kirkcaldie, Rosa Angela (1887-1972), hospital matron and army nurse' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 609-610. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kirkcaldie-rosa-angela-6972. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537645. Details
- 'Kirkcaldie, Rosa Angela (1887-1972)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468565. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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