Person

Meares, Mary Emma Goldsmith (1889 - 1964)

MBE

Born: 29 August 1889
Yule Station, Western Australia, Australia
Died: 23 June 1964
West Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation: Welfare worker

Summary

Mary Meares was a welfare worker in Western Australia. In 1914 she joined the Western Australian division of the British Red Cross Society and served in Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs). She later became Commandant of the No. 507 VAD and Assistant State Controller of the VADs. Meares served overseas as a welfare worker with the British Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the British Army. Other roles undertaken by Meares included Director of the Red Cross Hospital Visiting Committee, Honorary Secretary of the Soldiers' Welcome Committee and Assistant Secretary to the Maimed and Limbless Soldiers' Association.

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Chronology

1921: Award - Certificate of Merit, Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' (and Airmen's) Imperial League
1935: Award - King George V Silver Jubilee Medal
1935: Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
1937: Award - King George VI Coronation Medal

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

Birman, Wendy, 'Meares, Mary Emma Goldsmith (1889-1964), welfare worker' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 343-344. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150405b.htm. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24218760. Details
'Meares, Mary Emma Goldsmith (1889-1964)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467667. Details

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