Boyce, Una Parry (1911 - 2003)

Summary

Una Boyce trained and worked as a nurse and midwife during the 1930s. In 1961 she became state secretary of the War Widows Guild of Australia, New South Wales, a position she held for almost thirty years. Boyce was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1 January 1971, and Member of the Order of Australia, 10 June 1991, for her service to war widows.

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Chronology

1934

Career position - General Trained Nurse

1935

Career position - Registered Midwife at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital in London, UK

1936

Career position - Diploma, University of London, UK

1936 - 1938

Career position - Sister Tutor at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

1961 - 1989

Career position - State Secretary, War Widows Guild of Australia, New South Wales

1970

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

1991

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Biographical cuttings on Una Boyce, former secretary of the War Widows' Guild of NSW, 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

• 'Boyce, Una Parry (1911-2003)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756059. Details

Resource Sections

• Heywood, Anne, 'Boyce, Una Parry (1911 - 2003)', in The Australian Women's Register, 1 May 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0447b.htm. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details