Person
Moriarty, Barbara Ierne (1902 - 1979)
- Born
- 13 April 1902
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 11 January 1979
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Welfare worker
- Alternative Names
- Moriarty, Biddy
Summary
Biddy Moriarty was a member of the Australian Red Cross Society's field force during the World War. She undertook Red Cross work with repatriated prisoners of war during the final years of the war, which included being a member of the Red Cross contingent assisting the 2nd POW Reception Group in Singapore.
Details
Chronology
- 1940
- Career position - Attached to the Australian Comforts Fund in Palestine and Alexandria
- 1940 - 1941
- Career position - Cipher Officer for the Royal Navy in Alexandria for six months
- July 1941 - February 1942
- Career position - Joined the Australian Red Cross Society's Field force and was attached to the 2nd/2nd Australian General Hospital in Kantara, Egypt
- February 1942 - September 1943
- Career position - Returned to Australia and performed Red Cross duties in New South Wales, Victoria, Darwin and North Queensland
- September1943 - April 1944
- Career position - Red Cross Work among repatriated prisoners of war in the Middle East
- April 1944 - August 1945
- Career position - Returned to England and was attached to the Australian Army Staff to prepare the reception of exchanged and liberated prisoners of was
- September 1945 - November 1945
- Career position - Member of the Red Cross contingent in Singapore assisting the 2nd POW Reception Group (3 months)
- July 1946
- Career position - Discharged from the Red Cross
- 1947
- Award - Florence Nightingale Medal, International Committee of the Red Cross
- 1947 - 1965
- Career position - Worked as a Copy Writer and Clerical Assistant at David Jones Ltd. in Sydney
Archival resources
Australian War Memorial Research Centre
- Barbara Moriarty, Records, 1945 - 1955, 3DRL/7168; 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
- Hill, A. J., 'Moriarty, Barbara Ierne (Biddy) (1902-1979), Red Cross field representative' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 408-409. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150477b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21535904. Details
- 'Moriarty, Barbara Ierne (1902-1979)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463873. 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: 1 August 2007