Person
Laidlaw, Annie Ina (1889 - 1978)
- Born
- 23 January 1889
Lake Wallace, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 13 September 1978
McKinnon, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Nurse
Summary
Annie Laidlow trained as a nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. She served in India with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during the First World War. Between the wars Laidlow continued to work at the Royal Children's Hospital, rising to the position of lady superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section. When the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service was established in 1942, Laidlow was appointed superintending sister and head of the service. She was later promoted to matron. In 1946 she returned to her position at the Royal Children's Hospital. Laidlow later worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London, and the Freemason's Home of Victoria.
Details
Chronology
- 1913 - 1916
- Education - Nurse training at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1916 - 1917
- Career position - Staff Nurse at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1917 - 1919
- Military service - Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and sent to India where she worked in hospitals in Bombay and Poona
- 1919 - 1925
- Career position - Ward Sister at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- 1925
- Education - Midwifery training at the Hospital for Women, Sydney
- 1926 - 1930
- Career position - Assistant Lady Superintendent (Assistant-Matron) at the Children's Hospital in Melbourne
- 1930 - 1942
- Career position - Lady Superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section of the Children's Hospital in Frankston, Victoria
- 1942 - 1943
- Career position - Superintending Sister of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service
- 1943 - 1946
- Career position - Matron of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service
- 1946 - 1950
- Career position - Lady Superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section of the Children's Hospital in Frankston, Victoria
- 1951 - 1952
- Career position - Home Sister at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London
- 1952 - 1957
- Career position - Resident Matron at the Freemason's Homes of Victoria, Prahran
- 1957
- Life event - Retired
Archival resources
Australian War Memorial Research Centre
- Annie Laidlaw, Portrait, 1944, ART22219; Australian War Memorial Research Centre. 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
Book Sections
- Vines, Patricia C., 'Laidlaw, Annie Ina (1889-1978), navy matron' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 45-46. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150059b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24250726. Details
- 'Laidlaw, Annie Ina (1889-1978)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756082. 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: 11 March 2003, Last modified: 9 April 2003