- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0593
Bowe, Ethel Jessie
- OBE, RRC, ARRC
- Born 27 May, 1906, Maldon Victoria Australia
- Died 13 October, 1961, Repatriation General Hospital Heidelberg Victoria Australia
- Occupation Matron, Nurse, Servicewoman
Events
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1960
Gave the eighth annual oration for the New South Wales College of Nursing
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2040 - 2042
Served in the Middle East
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1931
Joined the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve
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2041
Appointed temporary matron
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2041
Appointed matron
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2043
Appointed deputy Matron-in-Chief
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2045
Awarded Associate Royal Red Cross
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2045
Appointed Principal Matron
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2045
Based on Morotai Island in the South West Pacific
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1948
Awarded the United States of America’s Bronze Star for her services
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1946
Appointed matron of the 115 Military (Repatriation General) Hospital, Heidelberg
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2047 - 2048
Appointed principal matron, Southern Command
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1930
Completed midwifery training at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne
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1931 - 1935
Sister on staff at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
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1936 - 1939
Sister tutor at the Perth Hospital, Western Australia
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2039
Appointed Sister in the Australian Army Nursing Service
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2040
Called up for service with the Australian Imperial Force
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2040
Posted senior sister of the 2/2 Australian General Hospital (AGH)
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2040
Served in England
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1927 - 1929
Nursing training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
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1950
Matron of the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg
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2051
Rejoined Australian Military Forces
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2052
Appointed matron-in-chief and granted the rank of honorary colonel
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1953
Awarded a Florence Nightingale medal
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2055
Awarded the Red Cross Medal
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2060
Appointed Officer to the Order of the British Empire
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1957
Appointed honorary nursing sister to Queen Elizabeth II
Published resources
- Edited Book
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Book
- From blue to khaki: The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 19421-1951, Mount-Batten, Betty J, 1995
- Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992
- Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984
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Resource Section
- Bowe, Ethel Jessie (1906 - 1961), Bassett, Jan, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130262b.htm
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Resource
- Trove: Bowe, Ethel Jessie (19060527-19611013), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-744098