Person
Kellett, Adelaide Maud (1873 - 1945)
CBE RRC
- Born
- 1 September 1873
Raglan, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 12 April 1945
Waverley, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Nurse and Hospital administrator
Summary
Adelaide Kellett became Matron of the Sydney Hospital in 1921 after serving in World War 1 as an army nurse. She retired from that position in 1944. Adelaide Kellett was President of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association 1929-1930, 1933-1934, 1937 and 1941-1942.
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Chronology
- 1898 - 1901
- Education - Nurse training at Sydney Hospital
- 1907
- Military service - Joined the Australian Army Nursing Service
- 1914
- Military service - Left Australia with the first convey of the Australian Imperial Force
- 1914 - 1916
- Military service - Matron with the Choubrah Military Infectious Hospital in Egypt
- 1916
- Award - Mentioned in Despatches (MID)
- 1916 - 1917
- Military service - Matron with the No 2 Australian Army Hospital in Southall, UK
- 1917
- Award - Royal Red Cross (RRC)
- 1917 - 1919
- Military service - Matron with the No 25 British General Hospital in Hardelot, France
- 1919
- Award - Mentioned in Despatches (MID)
- 1919
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1920
- Career position - Matron with the No 4 Australian General Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales
- 1921 - 1944
- Career position - Matron at the Sydney Hospital
- 1929 - 1930
- Career position - President, Australasian Trained Nurses Association
- 1933 - 1934
- Career position - President, Australasian Trained Nurses Association
- 1935
- Award - Florence Nightingale Medal, International Committee of the Red Cross
- 1937
- Career position - President, Australasian Trained Nurses Association
- 1941 - 1942
- Career position - President, Australasian Trained Nurses Association
- 1944
- Life event - Retired
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
- Mitchell, Ann M, 'Kellett, Adelaide Maud (1873-1945), hospital matron' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 549-550. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kellett-adelaide-maud-6912. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535135. Details
- CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: B2455, Kellett Adelaide Maud', B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=11989307. Details
- 'Kellett, Adelaide Maud (1873-1945)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-741095. 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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 June 2022
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