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Abbreviations
ARRC - The Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)

BEM(C) - The Order of the British Empire (Civil)

CBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Civil)

DBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Dames Commander

DGBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Dame Grand Cross - Civil

ISM - Imperial Service Medal

MBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil)

MBE(M) - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Military)

MVO - The Royal Victorian Order - Member

OBE(C) - The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil)

OBE(M) - The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Military)

QGM - The Queen's Gallantry Medal

LA COMBE, Adele May - BEM(C), 1969
Community
LACK, Annie Catherine - BEM(C), 1971
Postmistress of Barringun, NSW
LADD, Ruth Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1979
Music
LAHEY, Frances Vida - MBE(C), 1958
Art in Queensland
LAHNE, Elsie Catherine - MBE(C), 1972
Matron of Mount Pleasant Hospital in SA
LAIDLAW, Jessie Florence - ISM, 1905
PMG - Temporary Typist
LAIDLEY, Ethel - MBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
LAIN, Edith - BEM(C), 1976
Community
LAIRD, ophia Ann - ISM, 1951
NSW Public Health Department - Charge Nurse
LAMB, Haidee Iria - ISM, 1969
Arbitration Commission - Typist-in-Charge
LAMB, Haidee Iris - ISM, 1905
N/A
LAMB, Janet - ISM, 1968
NSW Public Health - Nurse
LAMBERT, Violet Barry - OBE(C), 1957
Member of the Fern Tree Gully Council
LAMOND, Betty Virginia - BEM(C), 1979
Public service
LAMP, Mary Evangelist - MBE(C), 1953
Social welfare
LAMSHED, Alice Elisabeth - MBE(C), 1952
South Australia Mental Hospital Women's Auxiliary
LANAGAN, Hilda - MBE(C), 1969
Community
LANCE, Marjorie Patrick - MBE(C), 1977
Public service
LANCE, Patricia Mary - MBE(C), 1979
Health
LANCET, Dorothy - BEM(C), 1976
Community
LANDER, Enid Joan - OBE(C), 1974
Community
LANDT, Marie Victoria - MBE(C), 1971
Community
LANE, Barbara - OBE(C), 1952
Mount Lamington volcanic eruption, PNG
LANE, Ethel Marion - MBE(C), 1978
Ex-servicemen & women
LANE, Nancy - ISM, 1976
Queensland Electricity - Stenographer
LANG, Gladys Irene - BEM(C), 1976
Public service
LANG, Irene - OBE(M), 1950
RAAF - Nursing Service - Postwar Honours List
LANG, Margaret Georgia - BEM(C), 1977
Community
LANG, Wilhelmine Anna - OBE(C), 1979
Education
LANGER, Gertrude - OBE(C), 1968
President of the Arts Council of Queensland
LANGHAM, Jessie Margaret - ARRC, 1945
AANS - South West Pacific
LANGHAM, Jessie Margaret - OBE(C), 1969
Nursing profession
LANGLEY, Beatrice Sarah - BEM(C), 1976
Community
LANGLEY, Doreen Moira - MBE(C), 1960
Principal, Women's College, Sydney University
LANGSTON, Elsie Margaret - MBE(C), 1972
Local government
LANNEN, Ada Martina - MBE(C), 1964
Member of the Prince Alfred Hospital Auxiliary
LANSKY, Elizabeth Annie - ISM, 1967
Anzac Hostel, Queensland - Matron
LARARD, Hazel May - BEM(C), 1986
Disabled & the Nambour/Palmwoods community
LARDI, Adela - OBE(C), 1973
Catholic education
LATHAM, Eleanor Mary - CBE(C), 1954
Children
LAURIE, Adelaide Rita Dorothy - OBE(C), 1967
Mayoress of Fremantle, Western Australia
LAURIE, Roma Lillian - BEM(C), 1974
Community
LAVAN, Mabel Louise - MBE(C), 1954
OIC Cables at the London High Commission
LAVERTY, Catherine Margaret - ISM, 1905
NSW Public Health Department - Charge Nurse
LAVERTY, Elizabeth Wellington - MBE(C), 1935
Social welfare services in NSW
LAW, Kathleen Norcott - BEM(C), 1979
Women's sport
LAW, Meysie Reeve - MBE(C), 1970
Community
LAW, Winifred Phillis - ISM, 1967
N/A
LAW, Winifred Phyllis - ISM, 1967
London High Commission - Clerk
LAWES, Mary Julia - MBE(C), 1953
Red Cross Society in South Australia
LAWN, Mary Patricia - BEM(C), 1981
Public service
LAWRENCE, Doreen Ida - MBE(C), 1972
International relations
LAWRENCE, Marjorie Florence - CBE(C), 1976
Performing arts (Mrs King)
LAWRENCE, Rose Martha - BEM(C), 1967
Accounts Department in the PMG's Department
LAWRIE, Myrtle Carletta - MBE(C), 1946
Secretary of the Allied Forces Welfare Bureau
LAWSON, Ann Milford - ISM, 1979
Queensland Lands - Stenographer
LAWSON, Betty Constance - MBE(C), 1978
Nursing
LAWSON, Ivy Grace - BEM(C), 1972
Community
LAWSON, June Olive - ISM, 1974
NSW Health - Nursing Superintendent
LAWSON, Mary Linus - MBE(C), 1954
Charities
LAWTON, Doreen - MBE(C), 1982
Aboriginal welfare
LAY, Mavis Jean - MBE(C), 1978
Public service as a training officer
LAY, May Evelyn - BEM(C), 1976
Returned Servicemen's League
LAZZARINI, Sheila - MBE(C), 1979
Community
LE SUEUR, Mary Helen Ruth - BEM(C), 1976
Community
LEA, Ida Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1977
Communuity
LEACH, Gladwys Madge - MBE(C), 1969
Community
LEACH, Margaret Elizabeth - ISM, 1934
NSW Health - Seamstress-in-Charge
LEACH, Marjorie May - ISM, 1969
PMG - Clerk
LEAHY, Ellen - MBE(C), 1930
Philanthropy in New South Wales
LEAHY, Enid Josephine - BEM(C), 1981
Public service
LEAKE, Mildred Amy - MBE(C), 1969
Matron of the Repatriation Hospital in SA
LEAKE, Nellie - ISM, 1949
NSW Public Health Department - Matron
LEAKE, Nollie - ARRC, 1917
Australian Army Nursing Service
LEAL, Charlotte Mary Clarissa - MBE(C), 1936
Social welfare
LEARMONTH, Emma Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1980
Community
LEARY, Edith Ada Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1967
Postmistress of the Greenfield Farm Exchange
LEE, Edith Rachel - ISM, 1972
PMG - Non Official Postmistress
LEE, Inez Edna - BEM(C), 1973
Nursing
LEE, Isabel Mary - MBE(C), 1963
Social welfare
LEE, Jan Evelyn - BEM(C), 1975
Community
LEE, Joanna - BEM(C), 1986
Community of Goondiwindi, Queensland
LEE, Phyllis Frances - OBE(C), 1971
Nursing
LEE-ARCHER, Estelle - ARRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
LEEBOLD, Nancy Lorna - MBE(C), 1967
Civil aviation
LEECE, Doriel Nancy - BEM(C), 1978
Community
LEEHY, Valda - MBE(C), 1969
Commonwealth Art Advisory Board
LEES, W J - ISM, 1942
N/A
LEFROY, Amy Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1954
Red Cross Society
LEGGETT, Dorothy Lena - MBE(C), 1954
Social welfare services in Queensland
LEGRO, Vida Adeline - BEM(C), 1981
Community
LEIGHTON, Merle - BEM(C), 1980
Public service
LEITCH, Lilian - OBE(C), 1965
Nursing
LELEAN, Clara Watchorn - MBE(C), 1962
Nursing
LEMON, Mary Marcotte - ISM, 1971
N/A
LEMON, Mary Mascotte - ISM, 1971
PMG - Overseer
LENDER, Sophie Evelyn - MBE(C), 1970
Charities
LENDON, Lucy Isabel - OBE(C), 1920
Soldiers Comforts Fund
LENIHAN, Dolores Veronica Martha - MBE(C), 1978
Migrant education
LENIHAN, Eileen Gertrude - MBE(C), 1951
Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
LENIHAN, Eileen Gertrude - OBE(C), 1964
Liaison Officer in the Prime Minister's office
LENIHAN, Kathleen Winifred - BEM(C), 1964
Secretary - Speaker of the House of Reps
LENNON, Esmay Clare - MBE(C), 1970
Community
LENNOX, Marie Nelson - ISM, 1972
PMG - Exempt Telephonist
LENTON, Charlotte Mildred - BEM(C), 1976
Methodist Church
LEONARD, Caroline Jane - BEM(C), 1977
Community (Sister Mary Magdalen)
LEONARD, Jessie Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1979
Visually handicapped
LESLIE, Ruby Eileen - BEM(C), 1980
Community & deaf
LESTER, Jean Marjorie - MBE(C), 1976
Public service
LESTER, Kathleen Irene - MBE(C), 1970
Welfare Officer - Aboriginal Affairs Foundation
LETCHER, Doreen Margaret - BEM(C), 1982
Public service
LETCHER, Sylvia Maie - BEM(C), 1976
Royal Melbourne Hospital
LETTE, Kay Mary - MBE(C), 1978
Veterans & children
LEVER, Ilma Muriel - BEM(C), 1975
Disabled Motorists Association
LEWIS, Annie - ISM, 1931
NSW Mental Hospital - Nurse
LEWIS, Catherine Margaret - ISM, 1957
NSW Public Health Department - Sister
LEWIS, Gladys - OBE(C), 1950
Vice President of the YWCA of Victoria
LEWIS, Greta - OBE(C), 1942
Social welfare
LEWIS, Marjorie Winifred Leslie - BEM(C), 1978
Agricultural development
LEWIS, Violet Evelyn - MBE(C), 1977
Community
LEWIS, Violet May - BEM(C), 1972
Community of Armidale, NSW
LEWORTHY, Betty Caroline - MBE(C), 1949
Secretary - SA Roman Catholic Women's League
LIDDY, Helen - BEM(C), 1982
Community
LIMN, Janet Elizabeth - BEM(C), 1971
Community
LINDSAY, Dorothy Ellen - BEM(C), 1978
Community
LINDSAY, Elizabeth May - BEM(C), 1967
Postmistress in NSW
LINDSAY, Hilarie Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1974
Literature
LINDSAY, Zoe - MBE(C), 1980
South Australian trade & industry
LINEHAM, Marjorie Ann - BEM(C), 1967
Corps of Commissionaires
LINKLATER, Elma Mary - ARRC, 1919
Australian Army Nursing Service
LIONS, Agnes Mary - MBE(C), 1960
Nursing
LIPMAN, Esther - MBE(C), 1946
Charities
LIPTON, Betty - BEM(C), 1979
Elderly citizens
LIPTROT, Joyce Reynolds - MBE(C), 1953
Secretary to the Lord Mayor of Hobart
LISTWAN, Elvira - OBE(C), 1971
Community
LITCHFIELD, Ruby Beatrice - OBE(C), 1959
Social welfare
LITCHFIELD, Ruby Beatrice - DBE(C), 1981
Service to the performing arts & the community
LITTLE, Margaret Ellen - QGM, 1978
Queensland Police: Apprehend an armed man
LITTLEJOHN, Florence Alma - BEM(C), 1979
Community
LITTLEJOHN, Jean - OBE(C), 1962
Deaf in Victoria
LITTLEJOHN, Jean - CBE(C), 1975
Medicine
LIVINGSTON, Amy Jean Mary - BEM(C), 1966
Commonwealth Radium Laboratory
LIVINGSTON, Kate Gregory - MBE(C), 1958
Typist at Army Headquarters in the Army Dept
LLEWELLYN, Myrrha Olive - MBE(C), 1971
Youth welfare
LLOYD, Eva - BEM(C), 1966
Community
LLOYD, Florence Violet - OBE(C), 1982
Women
LLOYD, Ida Gertrude - BEM(C), 1976
Girl Guides
LLOYD, Pearl Claudine - ISM, 1949
NSW Public Health Department - Charge Nurse
LLOYD, Winifred Isobel - BEM(C), 1987
Blind persons
LLOYD-GREEN, Lorna - OBE(C), 1968
Medicine
LLOYD-GREEN, Lorna - CBE(C), 1979
Services to medicine as a doctor
LLOYD-JONES, Hannah Benyon - OBE(C), 1955
Social welfare
LOBB, Diana Joan - MBE(M), 1971
ARMY - WRAAC - Postwar Honours List
LOCH, Joyce Mary - MBE(C), 1972
International relations
LOCH, Laura - ISM, 1972
Labour Department - Clerical Assistant
LOCHEAD, Ethel Stewart - OBE(C), 1957
Matron of Wooroloo Sanatorium, Western Australia
LOCK, Grace - BEM(C), 1981
Photography
LOCK, Jane Melinda - MBE(C), 1975
Sport
LOCKE, Gladys Rosalie - MBE(C), 1966
YWCA
LOCKHART, Catherine - BEM(C), 1976
Methodist Church
LOGAN, Florence Pearl - MBE(C), 1975
Children in remote areas
LOGAN, Patricia Jane - MVO, 1988
Ceremonial Officer during the 1988 Royal Visit
LOGIE, Christina Robertson - ISM, 1969
NSW Public Health - First Laundress
LOGUS, Mary Elizabeth Bateman - BEM(C), 1972
Charities in Caulfield, Victoria
LOHMEYER, Dorothy Mary - ISM, 1981
SA Community Welfare - Clerical Officer
LOIS, - MBE(C), 1970
Education
LONEY, June Ellen - MBE(C), 1977
Music
LONG, Bernadette - MBE(C), 1966
Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
LONG, Ivy Ereita - ISM, 1960
NSW Public Health Department - Sister
LONG, Nancy Winifred - MBE(C), 1980
Nursing
LONG, Thorn Jean - ARRC, 1972
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
LONGBOTTOM, Mary Ann - MBE(C), 1974
Community
LONGMORE, Lydia - OBE(C), 1957
Mother's Clubs in South Australia
LONGWILL, Alice Grace - BEM(C), 1987
Community
LOON, Margaret Rose - BEM(C), 1980
Community
LOOVEER, Lia - BEM(C), 1978
Ethnic community
LORD, Barbara - BEM(C), 1980
Community
LORD, Margaret Lucy - ISM, 1971
PMG - Clerical Assistant
LORENZ, Clarice Maud - OBE(C), 1976
Community
LORKING, Hazel Maryanne - ARRC, 1960
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
LOUGHRAN, NMcL - ARRC, 1917
QAIMNS (Australia)
LOURIGAN, Sheila Pauline - BEM(C), 1981
Community
LOVE, Christabel Agnes - ISM, 1958
N/A
LOVE, Christobel Agnes - ISM, 1958
Audit Office - OIC Correspondence & Records
LOVE, Ida Dorothy - BEM(C), 1974
Matron of the Women's Hospital, Sydney
LOVE, Maude Olive Jane - ISM, 1956
NSW Mental Hygiene Division - Charge Nurse
LOVEDAY, Cynthia - MBE(C), 1980
Public service
LOVELL, Ilma Gertrude - ARRC, 1919
Australian Army Nursing Service
LOVELL, Patricia Anne - MBE(C), 1977
Television & film industry
LOVETT, Dorothy May - ISM, 1979
NSW Government Printer - Assistant
LOVING, Thelma Isabell - BEM(C), 1981
Music
LOW, Doreen Priscilla - MBE(C), 1962
Social welfare
LOW, Violet May - BEM(C), 1976
Public service
LOWES, Milba Davison - BEM(C), 1976
Public service
LOYDSTROM, Cheryl Ann - MBE(C), 1971
Achievement at the Paraplegic Games
LUBY, Irene Veronica - ISM, 1972
PMG - Overseer
LUBY, Mabel - ISM, 1958
NSW Public Health Department - Sister
LUCAS, Clarice Jean - MBE(C), 1978
Community
LUCAS, Esme Vivian - MBE(C), 1966
Red Cross Society
LUCAS, Eva Muriel - MBE(C), 1960
Blind persons
LUCAS, Gertrude Margaret - MBE(C), 1955
Social welfare
LUCAS, Valmai Mary - BEM(C), 1982
Community
LUCKIE, Alma Grace - MBE(C), 1957
Matron of the Chest Hospital in Tasmania
LUCKIE, Annette - MBE(C), 1971
Community
LUDBROOK, Nelly Hooper - MBE(C), 1981
Science
LUDGE, Jessie Irene - BEM(C), 1970
Community of Korumburra, Victoria
LUKEY, Nan Maie - BEM(C), 1970
Field Officer of the National Fitness Council
LUKIS, Meroola Frances Fellowes - OBE(C), 1976
Archival work
LUMLEY, W A - ISM, 1967
N/A
LUMME, Linda Victoria - ISM, 1963
NSW Public Health - Matron
LUND, Elsie Chatrine - BEM(C), 1973
Community
LUSH, Mabel Mary Hailes - OBE(C), 1952
Pre-school education
LUTHER, Beryl Mavis - BEM(C), 1981
Public service
LUTON, Eileen Agnes - ISM, 1972
NSW Health - Charge Nurse
LYALL, W A E - ISM, 1939
N/A
LYLE, Clare - CBE(C), 1918
War work
LYNAM, Lola Evelyn - BEM(C), 1978
Public service
LYNCH, Dorothy Frances - ISM, 1972
Repatriation Commission - Senior Typist
LYNCH, Veronica - ISM, 1972
Works Department - Steno-Secretary
LYNN, Mary - OBE(C), 1950
Matron of Mental Homes, Western Australia
LYON, Heather - MBE(C), 1977
Education
LYON, Wilhelmina Mary Cochrane W - BEM(C), 1980
Nursing
LYONS, Betty Dorothy - MBE(C), 1979
Nursing
LYONS, Dorothea Margaret - MBE(C), 1963
Social welfare
LYONS, Eileen Roma - ISM, 1976
NSW Government Printer - Assistant
LYONS, Enid Muriel - DGBE(C), 1957
Public services to Australia
LYONS, Josephine - BEM(C), 1985
Sick (Sister Gertrude Mary)
LYONS, Veronica - ISM, 1968
NSW Public Health - Occupational Nurse