Person

Butler, Edith Dorothy Kate (1908 - )

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Born
25 February 1908
Peterborough, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Nurse

Summary

Edith Butler trained as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she was later staff sister. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1945 in recognition of her work in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in the south-west Pacific area.

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Chronology

1928 - 1931
Career position - Nurse training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
1932 - 1938
Career position - Staff Sister at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
January 1940
Career position - Matron at the Crippled Children's Home
May 1940
Career position - Left Australia on active service
May 1941 - March 1942
Career position - Matron with the 2/11 Australian General Hospital in the Middle East
March 1942 - July 1942
Career position - Matron with the 2nd and 3rd Australian General Hospital in England
July 1942 - 1944?
Career position - Matron with the 105 Australian General Hospital
1944? - 1946?
Career position - Principal Matron with the South Australian Lines of Communication Area
1945
Award - Royal Red Cross (RRC)
1946? - 1949?
Career position - Chief Nurse for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the British Zone, Austria
1949
Career position - Acting Principal Matron of the 4th Military District

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Biographical cuttings on Edith Butler, nurse, 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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

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: 1 August 2007

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