The Australian Women's Register

Studio portrait of bride Dr Isabel Ormiston on her marriage to Major (Maj) Chudleigh Garvice DSO, Commandant of the Alexandria Police. Maj Garvice received his DSO while serving with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Boer War. In 1920 he married Dr Martha Isabel Ormiston, a Tasmanian born doctor who graduated from the University of Sydney. Maj Chudleigh died within a year of their marriage. Dr Ormiston had been working with the Red Cross in London before enlisting and was attached to the Queen of the Belgians’ Hospital at Ostend and La Panne (1914-1915), Wounded Allies’ Relief (W.A.R.) Hospital Montenegro (1916-1917), British Red Cross Depot Egypt (1916) and W.A.R. Hospital, Limoges. She was awarded the Montenegrin Red Cross and Orders of Danilo and the Nile. She later took up the position of Senior Lady Medical Officer, Egyptian Ministry of Education and in 1928 was awarded an MBE. She died in July 1958 in Australia.