- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: IMP0114
Sage, Annie Moriah
- CBE, RRC
- Born 17 August 1895, Somerville, Victoria, Australia
- Died 6 April 1969
- Occupation Nurse
Summary
During Annie Sage’s distinguished military nursing career in World War II she introduced the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service Training Scheme and was closely involved in the planning and establishment of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps as an integral part of the Australian Regular Army and the Citizen Military Forces.
After the war she took an active and leading role in the establishment of the War Nurses Memorial Centre and the Centaur War Nurses Fund. Through her work with the (Royal) College of Nursing she made a very important contribution to postgraduate nursing education. She was also active in the negotiations that brought about the 1958 Nurses’ Act which gave wider power to the registering authority, the Victorian Nursing Council. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her war work with the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Middle East in 1942 (for ‘exceptional tact and administrative ability’) and she was awarded the CBE (Military Division) in 1951.
Events
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2043 - 1952
Mation-in-Chief of the Australian Military Forces
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1970
Born: daughter of Edward Arthur and Mary Anne (née Murray) Sage
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1936 - 1939
Matron of the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association Training School
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2039 - 2047
Member of the Australian Army Nursing Service
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1941
Matron-in-Chief of the Australian Imperial Forces
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1947 - 1951
Lady Superintendent of the Women’s Hospital, Carlton, Victoria
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2024
Registered as a midwife
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2026
Granted her nursing certificate
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2040
Sailed for the Middle East and served at Gaza Ridge, Palestine, and at Kantara, Egypt
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1942
Appointed a member of the Royal Red Cross
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2043
Promoted to colonel
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2045
Flew to Sumatra to assist with the repatriation of the 24 Australian nurses imprisoned by the Japanese
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1947
Awarded Florence Nightingale medal
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2046
Accompanied the Australian Military Forces to London for the Victory March
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1949 - 1950
Founding president of the College of Nursing, Melbourne
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1950 - 1952
Treasurer of the College of Nursing, Melbourne
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1967
Honorary fellow of the College of Nursing, Melbourne
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1957 - 1962
Honorary colonel of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
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2069
Died and was cremated with Anglican rites with full military honours
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1969
College of Nursing established the Annie M Sage scholarship
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1956
Became a partner in a grocery shop at Somerville, Victoria
Archival resources
- Nurses Memorial Centre
- Royal College of Nursing, Australia, Archives
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Australian War Memorial, Research Centre
- Sage, Annie Moriah (Matron b: 1895 d: 1969)
- [Campaign in Malaya and Singapore - Escape before and after capitulation and evacuation of civilians:]
- Honours and Awards - Recommendations for New Year Honours List 1946
- End of War Awards - submissions by [Quartermaster-General and Director-General of Medical Services]
- Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), ob board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia
- National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office
- National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra
- National Library of Australia
Published resources
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Book
- Matron A.M. Sage 'Sammie': A Tribute by Betty Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Agnes Betty, 1970?
- White Coolies, Jeffrey, Betty, 1954
- Revolutions and Rosewater: The Evolution of Nurse Registration in Victoria, 1923-1973, Minchin, Maureen Kathryn, 1977
- Founders of the College, Schultz, Bart, 1989
- In Pursuit of Nursing Excellence: A History of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia 1949-1999, Smith, Russel G., 1999
- Victoria's Living Memorial: History of the Nurses Memorial Centre, 1948-1990, Williams, Jennifer A., 1991
- Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984
- The Ever open door : a history of the Royal Melbourne Hospital 1848-1998, Gregory, Alan, 1998
- Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985
- A Woman's war : the exceptional life of Wilma Oram Young, AM, Angell, Barbara, 2003
- Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992
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Resource Section
- Sage, Annie Moriah (1895 - 1969), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004101b.htm
- Sage, Annie Moriah (1895-1969), McCarthy, Janice, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160194b.htm
- SAGE, ANNIE MORIAH, Department of Veterans Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=1204594
- Edited Book
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Resource
- Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html
- Trove: Sage, Annie Moriah (1895-1969), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-736097
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Site Exhibition
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html