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

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

BEM(M) - The Order of the British Empire (Military)

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

CBE(M) - The Order of the British Empire - Commander (Military)

CMG - The Order of St Michael and St George - Commanders

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

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

GM - George Medal

ISM - Imperial Service Medal

ISO - Imperial Service Order

KCBC - King's Commendation for Brave Conduct

KPFM - King's Police Fire and Services Medal

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

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

MM - The Military Medal

MVO - The Royal Victorian Order - Member

MVO5 - The Royal Victorian Order - Members of the Fifth Class

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

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

OM - The Order of Merit

QGM - The Queen's Gallantry Medal

QPM - The Queen's Police Medal

RRC - The Royal Red Cross

RVM - The Royal Victorian Order - Royal Victorian Medal

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A'BECKETT, Ada Mary - CBE(C), 1935
President of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria
ADAM-SMITH, Patricia Jean - OBE(C), 1980
Literature
ADDERLEY, Vera May - MBE(C), 1978
Nursing (Mrs Jones)
ALLEY, Diane Bernice - OBE(C), 1981
Women's affairs
AMIES, Geraldine Christein - OBE(C), 1976
Medicine
ANDERSON, Edith Muriel - DBE(C), 1937
Public service in New South Wale
ANDERSON, Francis Margaret - DBE(C), 1960
For services as an actress (Judith Anderson)
ANDERSON, Margaret - RRC, 1918
Australian Army Nursing Service
ANDERSON, Margaret Irene - GM, 1942
AANS: Bravery when ship attacked by enemy aircraft
ANGLISS, Jacobena - CBE(C), 1949
President of the Victorian Child Welfare Association
ANGLISS, Jacobena Victoria Alice - DBE(C), 1975
Community and welfare services
ANSTEY, Olive Eva - MBE(C), 1969
Nursing
ANSTEY, Olive Eva - CBE(C), 1981
Nursing
ANTHONY, Julie - OBE(C), 1979
Entertainment industry (Mrs Natt)
APPLEFORD, Alice Ross - RRC, 1945
AANS - Unverified (Was AR King in WW1)
ARCHER, Mary Ellinor Lucy - MBE(C), 1956
Chief Librarian CSIRO
ARMFIELD, Lillian May - KPFM, 1946
New South Wales Police
ARMFIELD, Lillian May - ISM, 1951
New South Wales Police
ARMSTRONG, Elaine - BEM(C), 1971
GALLANTRY: Westgate Bridge disaster
ARNOT, Jean Fleming - MBE(C), 1965
Community services in Sydney
ARONSON, Zara Baer - OBE(C), 1936
Red Cross Society
ASHTON, Helen - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
AUSTIN, Mary Valentine Hall - DBE(C), 1979
Community and welfare services
B
BAGE, Anna Frederick - OBE(C), 1941
Public service
BAGE, Jessie Eleanor - OBE(C), 1956
Social welfare
BAILEY, Moya Kanthleen - MBE(C), 1955
Medicine (Dr Blackall)
BAKER, Alice - CBE(C), 1933
Co-founder of the Medical Research Institute
BARRETT, Daphne Lillian - MBE(C), 1966
Education
Barrett, Edith Helen - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
BARRETT, Edith Helen - CBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
BATES, Daisy - CBE(C), 1934
Aboriginal welfare
BEAUREPAIRE, Beryl Edith - OBE(C), 1975
Community
BEAUREPAIRE, Beryl Edith - DBE(C), 1980
Service to women's affairs
BELL, Jane - OBE(C), 1944
President of the Royal Victoria College of Nursing
BENJAMIN, Phyllis Jean - MBE(C), 1956
Member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
BERRY, Alice Miriam - OBE(C), 1954
Public service
BERRY, Alice Miriam - DBE(C), 1960
Service to country women
BEST, Amelia Martha - MBE(C), 1956
Social welfare
BEST, Kathleen Annie Louise - OBE(M), 1956
Womens Royal Australian Army Corps
BEST, Kathleen Annie Louise - RRC, 1941
Australian Army Nursing Service
BIDMEAD, Martha Sarah - RRC, 1901
Independent nurse from South Australia
BIGGS, Lucy Blanche - OBE(C), 1975
Medical missionary in Papua New Guinea
BIRCHALL, Ida Lois - MBE(C), 1969
Medicine
BLACKWOOD, Margaret - MBE(C), 1964
Senior Botany Lecturer at Melbourne University
BLACKWOOD, Margaret - DBE(C), 1980
Services to education
BLAXLAND, Helen Frances - OBE(C), 1967
Red Cross Society
BLAXLAND, Helen Frances - DBE(C), 1975
Service to the community
BOHAN, Eleanor Lucy - ISO, 1979
Nursing Director in the WA Medical Department
BOLTE, Edith Lilian - DBE(C), 1973
Public service to Victoria
BOLTE, Edith Lillian - CBE(C), 1959
Social welfare
BOOKER, Lorelei Emmeline - MBE(C), 1973
Community
BOOTH, Mary - OBE(C), 1918
Friendly Union of Soldier's Wives
BOWE, Ethel Jessie - ARRC, 1945
AANS - South West Pacific
BOWE, Ethel Jessie - RRC, 1955
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps
BOWE, Ethel Jessie - OBE(M), 1960
ARMY - Nursing Corps
BOYCE, Una Parry - OBE(C), 1971
War widows
BOYE, Ruby Olive - BEM(C), 1944
Coastwatching in the islands during the war
BOYLE, Raelene Ann - MBE(C), 1974
Athletics
BRAZILL, Josephine - DBE(C), 1979
Service to the community (Sister Mary Phillips)
BREEN, Marie Freda - OBE(C), 1958
President - National Council of Women, Victoria
BREEN, Marie Freda - DBE(C), 1979
Service to the community
BRIDGES, Patricia Marie - OBE(C), 1980
Golf & the community
BRONHILL, June - OBE(C), 1976
Peforming arts (Mrs Finney)
BROOKES, Mabel Balcombe - CBE(C), 1933
Charities & philanthropy in Victoria
BROOKES, Mabel Balcombe - DBE(C), 1955
Charitable & social welfare services
BROPHY, Teresa Rita O'Rourke - OBE(C), 1977
Medicine
BROWN, Gladys Bronwen - CBE(C), 1974
National Council of Women
BROWN, Vera - OBE(C), 1938
Director of Infant Welfare in Victoria
BROWNBILL, Kay Catherine Millin - OBE(C), 1980
Community
BROWNE, Grace Johnston - MBE(C), 1959
Director of Baby Welfare - NSW Health Dept
BRYCE, Lucy Meredith - CBE(C), 1951
Director of the Victoria Blood Transfusion Service
BUCKLAND, Dorothy - MBE(C), 1977
Community
BULCOCK, Emily Hemans - OBE(C), 1964
Literature & poetry
BULLWINKEL, Vivian - MBE(C), 1973
Nursing & the community
BULLWINKEL, Viviian - ARRC, 1947
AANS - South West Pacific
BURKE, Francis Murray - MBE(C), 1970
Art & design
BURNSIDE, Edith - OBE(C), 1957
Hospital auxiliaries in Victoria
BURNSIDE, Edith - DBE(C), 1976
Service to hospitals & the community
BURTON-BRADLEY, Claudia Portia - MBE(C), 1966
Research Director of the Cerebral Palsey Assn
BUSH, Muriel Evelyn - OBE(C), 1956
Girl Guide movement
BUTTFIELD, Nancy Eileen - DBE(C), 1972
Political & public services
BUTTROSE, Ita Clare - OBE(C), 1979
Journalism
BUXTON, Rita Mary - OBE(C), 1944
Philanthropy
BUXTON, Rita Mary - CBE(C), 1955
Charities
BUXTON, Rita Mary - DBE(C), 1969
Philanthropic services
BYTH, Elsie Frances - OBE(C), 1953
Former President of the National Council of Women
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CALDWELL, Amy Gwendoline - OBE(C), 1968
Aviation
CAMPBELL, Enid Mona - OBE(C), 1979
Education in the field of law
CAMPBELL, Kate Isabel - CBE(C), 1954
Medical science
CAMPBELL, Kate Isabel - DBE(C), 1971
Services to the welfare of Australian children
CARDEN, Joan Maralyn - OBE(C), 1981
Opera (Mrs Coyne)
CARLTON, Eileen Grace Sally - MBE(C), 1960
Girl Guides Association in Western Australia
CARRARD, Alice - MBE(C), 1976
Music (madame Alice Carrard)
CARTER, Doris Jessie - OBE(M), 1957
Womens Royal Australian Air Force
CARTER, Katherine Cameron - MBE(C), 1965
Headmistress - Ipswich Girls Grammar School
CASSAB, Judy - CBE(C), 1969
Art
CAWOOD, Dorothy Gwendoline - MM, 1917
AUST ANS. MM 28/9/1917 LOND GAZ 30312
CHATFIELD, Florence - OBE(C), 1932
Superintendent of the Chronic Diseases Hospital
CHAUVEL, Elsa - OBE(C), 1964
Australian film industry
CHISHOLM, Alice - DBE(C), 1920
Organisation of canteens for the troops
CHOMLEY, Mary Elizabeth Maud - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
CLAGUE, Joyce Caroline - MBE(C), 1977
Aborigines
CLANCY, Elizabeth - OBE(C), 1966
Art & literature
CLARK, Anne Evelyn - BEM(C), 1975
Sport
CLELAND, Rachel - CBE(C), 1966
President of the Red Cross & Girl Guides in PNG
CLELAND, Rachel - MBE(C), 1959
Girl Guides Association
CLIFFE, Anna Maria - ISM, 1920
Matron - Adelaide Gaol
COCKS, Fanny Kate Boadicea - MBE(C), 1935
Principal of the Women's Police in SA
COLES, Mabel Irene - CBE(C), 1965
Charities
COLES, Mabel Irene - DBE(C), 1971
Charitable services
COLLINS, Eva - ISM, 1979
Queensland Aboriginal Affairs - Dormitory Superviser
CONNOR, Annie Jean - DBE(C), 1935
Services to the welfare of children
CONNOR, Marjorie - MBE(C), 1973
Nursing & the community
CONOCHIE, Jean Athola - MBE(C), 1977
Public service in the field of science
CONYERS, Evelyn Augusta - RRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
CONYERS, Evelyn Augusta - CBE(M), 1919
ARMY - Nursing Service in the First World War
COOK, Nancy - OBE(C), 1951
Reader in Bacteriology at the Adelaide University
COOPER, Janet Pierson - OBE(C), 1959
Mayor of South Melbourne
COOPER, Mavis Dawn - OBE(C), 1980
Country Women's Association
CORNELIUS, Stella - OBE(C), 1978
Commerce
COSGROVE, Gertrude Ann - DBE(C), 1947
Public service in Tasmania
COUCHMAN, Elizabeth May Ramsay - DBE(C), 1960
Public & patriotic services
COWAN, Edith Dircksey - OBE(C), 1920
Red Cross Society
COWLEY, Marie - OBE(C), 1920
President of the Queensland Comforts Fund
CRAMER, Mary Therese - DBE(C), 1971
Distinguished public service
CRANLEY, Alison Hilma Barbara Victoria - MBE(C), 1970
Education
CRAVEN, Dilys Mary - OBE(C), 1981
Medicine & paediatrics
CRAWCOUR, Priscilla - OBE(C), 1969
Local government
CRESPIN, Irene - OBE(C), 1969
Palaeontologist at the Bureau of Mineral Resources
CRESSWELL, Adelaide - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
CRITTENDEN, Jean Hilda - MBE(C), 1966
Matron of the Repatriation Hospital in Hobart
CROMMELIN, Minard Finard - MBE(C), 1959
Flora & fauna
CROMPTON, Phyllis Owen - MBE(C), 1959
Red Cross Society
CROSIO, Janice Ann - MBE(C), 1978
Local government
CROW, Rose Bellatti - BEM(C), 1962
Archivist - Australian Embassy in Washington
CROWTHER, Ethel Annie - OBE(C), 1920
Red Cross Society
CURRY, Lisa Gaye - MBE(C), 1982
Swimming
CURTIN, Elsie - CBE(C), 1970
Community
CURTIS-OTTER, Margaret - OBE(C), 1956
State Commissioner of the Girl Guides' Movement, State of Victoria
CUTHBERT, Betty - MBE(C), 1965
Athletics in New South Wales
D
DALGARNO, Ann Patricia - MBE(C), 1977
Community
DALLEY, Marie - OBE(C), 1949
Magistrate of the North Melbourne Children's Court
DALY, Mary - OBE(C), 1937
Charities
DALY, Mary Dora - DBE(C), 1951
Social welfare services
DALY, Mary Dora - CBE(C), 1949
President - Catholic Welfare Association of WA
D'ARCY, Constance Elizabeth - DBE(C), 1935
Services to the welfare of children
DAVEY, Constance Muriel - OBE(C), 1955
Education
DAVEY, Margaret Lurline - MBE(C), 1963
Young Women's Christian Association
DAVEY, Margaret Lurline - CBE(C), 1981
Women's affairs
DAVIDSON, Ethel Sarah - RRC, 1918
Australian Army Nursing Service
DAVIDSON, Ethel Sarah - ARRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
DAVIDSON, Ethel Sarah - CBE(M), 1919
ARMY - Army Nursing Services
DAVIS, Mervyn Twynam - MBE(C), 1980
Public service
DAWS, Joyce Margaretta - DBE(C), 1975
Services to medicine
DAWSON, Eileen - MBE(C), 1976
Golf
de BERG, Hazel Estelle - MBE(C), 1968
Collection of archival material
DE LA HUNTY, Shirley Barbara - MBE(C), 1957
Athletics (Mrs Strickland)
DEAKIN, Pattie - CBE(C), 1935
Public service
DEAKIN, Vera - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
DENNIS, Jean - MBE(C), 1962
Mayor of Wonthaggi in Victoria
DERHAM, Frances - MBE(C), 1950
Social welfare
DESAILLY, Frances Esme - MBE(C), 1939
Charities
DOCKER, Betty Bristow - ARRC, 1968
RAAF Nursing Service
DOCKER, Betty Bristow - RRC, 1970
RAAF Nursing Service
DOHERTY, Muriel Knox - RRC, 1945
RAAF Nursing Service
DOUGLAS, Mary Stuart - OBE(C), 1953
Commissioner of Girl Guides in South Australia
DOWNES, Doris Mary - OBE(C), 1918
Friendly Union of Soldier's Wives
DOWNING, Cecelia - MBE(C), 1950
Social welfare services in Victoria
DOWSON, Dorothy Joan - MBE(C), 1980
Red Cross & ex-servicemen & women
DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Henrietta Frances York - OBE(C), 1967
Australian literature
DURACK, Elizabeth - CMG, 1982
Services to art & literature
DURACK, Mary - DBE(C), 1977
Services to literature (Mrs HC Miller)
E
EARLE, Mary Philomena - MBE(C), 1976
Medical health
EDIS, Margaret Dorothy - MBE(C), 1954
Sufferers from incurable diseases
ELPHICK, Gladys - MBE(C), 1971
Aboriginal community
EVANS, Patricia Ann - MBE(C), 1978
Local government & aged
F
FAIRFAX, Ruth Beatrice - OBE(C), 1935
Charities
FAIRLEY, Priscilla Sheath - CBE(C), 1975
Medicine
FALL, Constance Amy - OBE(C), 1976
Red Cross Society
FALL, Constance Amy - RRC, 1942
AANS - Middle East
FELTHAM, Juanity Cecily - BEM(M), 1964
ARMY - WRAAC - Postwar Honours List
FENSTON, Esme - OBE(C), 1967
Journalism
FIDLER, Isabel Margaret - MBE(C), 1939
Education in New South Wales
FISHER, Valerie Clare - OBE(C), 1981
Women's affairs
FITTON, Doris Alice - DBE(C), 1981
Services to the theatre (Mrs Mason)
FOX, Mary Elizabeth Gertrude - MBE(C), 1942
Headmistress of the Methodist Ladies College
FRANK, Lillian Georgina - MBE(C), 1977
Charities
FROST, Phyllis Irene - DBE(C), 1974
Outstanding service to community
FROST, Phyllis Irene - CBE(C), 1963
President - National Council of Women of Victoria
FURLEY, Mabel Eileen - OBE(C), 1954
Social welfare
G
GALLAGHER, Monica Josephine - DBE(C), 1976
Services to the community
GALLEGHAN, Persia Elspbeth - OBE(C), 1977
Red Cross Society
GIBB, Phyllis Annie Constance - MBE(C), 1963
School of the Air in New South Wales
GIBBS, Mary Elizabeth - GM, 1973
Bravery during a child hostage incident
GIBSON, Gladys Ruth - OBE(C), 1953
President of the National Council of Women
GIBSON, Gladys Ruth - CBE(C), 1970
Advancement of women
GIBSON, Margaret - MBE(C), 1980
Community
GIESE, Nancy - MBE(C), 1971
Community
GIESE, Nancy - OBE(C), 1977
Education & the arts
GILL, Eunice Elizabeth Perrott - MBE(C), 1975
Sport, recreation & physical fitness
GILLIES, Annie Florence - DBE(C), 1951
WA Minister of Health (Mrs Cardell-Oliver)
GILMORE, Mary - DBE(C), 1937
Services to literature
GILRUTH, Jeannie - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
GODFREY-SMITH, Anne - BEM(C), 1979
Theatre
GOOD, Minnie Agnes - OBE(C), 1920
Red Cross Society
GOOLAGONG, Evonne Fay - MBE(C), 1972
Tennis
GORHAM, Kathleen - OBE(C), 1968
Ballet
GOULD, Ellen Julia - RRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
GOULD, Shane Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1981
Swimming (Mrs SE Innes)
GRAHAM, Margaret - RRC, 1917
Australian Army Nursing Service
GRAHAM, Margaret - MBE(C), 1956
Social welfare
GRANT, Beryl - OBE(C), 1976
Nursing
GRANT, Lilian - OBE(C), 1920
Red Cross Society
GREEN, Betty - MBE(C), 1982
Nursing
GREEN, Ola Cohn - MBE(C), 1965
Sculpture (Miss Ola Cohn)
GREVILLE, Henrietta - MBE(C), 1958
Social welfare services in New South Wales
GREY, Helene Dorothy - OBE(C), 1948
Matron of the Royal Melbourne Hospital
GUILFOYLE, Margaret Georgina C - DBE(C), 1979
Public & Parliamentary service
GUM, Daphne Lorraine - MBE(C), 1960
Director - SA Cerebral Palsey Children's School
GUY, Margaret Frances - OBE(C), 1961
Matron of the Canberra Community Hospital
H
HALLENSTEIN, Phillipa May - OBE(C), 1972
Women's organisations
HAMMOND, Joan - CBE(C), 1963
UK List - For services to singing
HAMMOND, Joan Hood - CMG, 1972
Services to young opera singers
HAMMOND, Joan Hood - OBE(C), 1953
Singing
HAMMOND, Joan Hood - DBE(C), 1974
Distinguished services to music
HANSEN, Elizabeth May - MBE(C), 1979
Aboriginal welfare
HARRISON, Gwenyth Valmai - MBE(C), 1967
Radio entertainment
HAWTHORN, Dorothy - MBE(C), 1967
Community & social welfare services
HAYTER, Ellen Mary - MBE(C), 1974
Community
HAYTER, Lorna - CBE(C), 1979
Agriculture & community
HEAVEN, Lynda Agnes Victoria - MBE(C), 1968
Community
HEDDITCH, Mabel Emily - OBE(C), 1960
Mayor of Portland, Victoria
HELMRICH, Dorothy Jane Adele - OBE(C), 1959
President of the Arts Council of Australia
HENDERSON, Margaret Mary - OBE(C), 1976
Medicine
HENSLOWE, Dorothea Isabel - BEM(C), 1979
Local tourism & community
HERRING, Mary - DBE(C), 1960
Service to nursing in Victoria
HERRING, Violet Muriel - OBE(C), 1954
Red Cross Society
HILL, Dorothy - CBE(C), 1971
Geology & palaentology
HILLIARD, Winifred Margaret - MBE(C), 1977
Aboriginal welfare
HOFF, Ursula - OBE(C), 1970
Assistant Director and Senior Curator, National Gallery of Victoria
HOLT, Zara Kate - DBE(C), 1968
Devotion to the public interest
HUGHES, Agnes Eva - OBE(C), 1918
President of the National Women's League
HUGHES, Mary Ethel - DGBE(C), 1921
Services to Australia during the war
HURMAN, Edith Myra - MBE(C), 1966
Medicine in New South Wales
HYDE, Iris McKenzie - MBE(C), 1968
Community
HYDE, Iris McKenzie - CBE(C), 1969
Community & politics
HYNES, Sarah - MBE(C), 1934
Public service
I
IBBOTT, Nellie Grace - MBE(C), 1954
Local government & charities
INGOLD, Beryl Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1979
Agriculture & community
IRVING, Freda Mary Howy - MBE(C), 1981
Journalism
IRVING, Sybil - MBE(C), 1939
Social welfare services in Victoria
ISBISTER, Jean Sinclair - OBE(C), 1969
Medicine
ISBISTER, Jean Sinclair - CBE(C), 1976
Medicine
IVISON, Ruby May - MBE(C), 1978
Community
J
JACKSON, Dawn Valerie Vautin - OBE(M), 1960
Womens Royal Australian Army Corps
JACKSON, Edna Mavis - MBE(C), 1968
Community
JACKSON, Marjorie - MBE(C), 1953
Women's athletics (Mrs Nelson). Also awarded CVO by The Queen during Royal Visit February 2002, (Mrs Nelson now Governor of South Australia.)
JARRETT, Patricia Irene - MBE(C), 1972
Journalism
JEFFREYS, Irene Florence - OBE(C), 1978
Church, women, children & aged
JOHNSTON, Jessie May - OBE(C), 1958
Community
JORDAN, Diedre Francis - MBE(C), 1969
Education (Sister Mary Campion)
JOY, Alexandra Margaret Anne - OBE(C), 1949
Medicine, in isolated areas
JOYCE, Eileen - CMG, 1981
Services to music
K
KELLETT, Adelaide Maud - CBE(M), 1919
ARMY - Nursing Service in the First World War
KELLETT, Adelaide Maud - RRC, 1917
Australian Army Nursing Service
KENNAN, Winifred Edith - OBE(C), 1977
Medicine
KENNEDY, Thalia Ruby Lorraine - MBE(C), 1981
Education & the community
KENT, Ivy Mary - MBE(C), 1968
Welfare of women & children
KENWORTHY, Mary Sheila - CMG, 1977
Services to law and women's issues
KENWORTHY, Sheila Mary - OBE(M), 1951
RAN - Lately Director of WRANS
KERLEY, Lucy Frances - MBE(C), 1974
National Gallery Art School
KILBORN, Pamela - MBE(C), 1971
Sport
KING, Alice Ross - ARRC, 1918
Australian Army Nursing Service
KING, Catherine Helen - MBE(C), 1966
Community
KIRWAN, Joan Dorothy - ARRC, 1957
RAAF Nursing Service
KRAMER, Leonie Judith - OBE(C), 1976
Professor of Australian Literature - Sydney Univ
KRAMER, Leonie Judith - DBE(C), 1982
Services to literature and the public
KUMM, Frances Gertrude - OBE(C), 1948
President - Victoria National Council of Women
L
LAHEY, Frances Vida - MBE(C), 1958
Art in Queensland
LAMBERT, Violet Barry - OBE(C), 1957
Member of the Fern Tree Gully Council
LANE, Ethel Marion - MBE(C), 1978
Ex-servicemen & women
LANG, Irene - OBE(M), 1950
RAAF - Nursing Service - Postwar Honours List
LATHAM, Eleanor Mary - CBE(C), 1954
Children
LAURIE, Adelaide Rita Dorothy - OBE(C), 1967
Mayoress of Fremantle, Western Australia
LAWRENCE, Marjorie Florence - CBE(C), 1976
Performing arts (Mrs King)
LESTER, Kathleen Irene - MBE(C), 1970
Welfare Officer - Aboriginal Affairs Foundation
LIONS, Agnes Mary - MBE(C), 1960
Nursing
LITCHFIELD, Ruby Beatrice - OBE(C), 1959
Social welfare
LITCHFIELD, Ruby Beatrice - DBE(C), 1981
Service to the performing arts & the community
LITTLEJOHN, Jean - OBE(C), 1962
Deaf in Victoria
LITTLEJOHN, Jean - CBE(C), 1975
Medicine
LLOYD, Florence Violet - OBE(C), 1982
Women
LLOYD-GREEN, Lorna - OBE(C), 1968
Medicine
LLOYD-GREEN, Lorna - CBE(C), 1979
Services to medicine as a doctor
LOBB, Diana Joan - MBE(M), 1971
ARMY - WRAAC - Postwar Honours List
LOCK, Jane Melinda - MBE(C), 1975
Sport
LONGMORE, Lydia - OBE(C), 1957
Mother's Clubs in South Australia
LOOVEER, Lia - BEM(C), 1978
Ethnic community
LUDBROOK, Nelly Hooper - MBE(C), 1981
Science
LUKIS, Meroola Frances Fellowes - OBE(C), 1976
Archival work
LYON, Heather - MBE(C), 1977
Education
LYONS, Enid Muriel - DGBE(C), 1957
Public services to Australia
M
MACFARLAN, Margaret Ethel - MBE(C), 1970
Journalism
MACHIN, Gladys Ellen - OBE(C), 1962
Councillor of the City of Caulfield, Victoria
MACKAY, Kate - OBE(C), 1977
Medicine
MACKAY, Vivienne - OBE(C), 1958
Red Cross Society
MACKENZIE, Helen Pearl - MBE(C), 1962
Medical Officer at the Australian Mission Hospital in Korea
MACKIE, Margaret Alison - CMG, 1975
Services to medicine in Victoria
MACKINNON, Eleanor Vokes Irby - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
MACKINNON, Una Patricia - CBE(C), 1972
Community
MACKINNON, Una Patricia - DBE(C), 1977
Distinguished service to Royal Children's Hospital
MACKNIGHT, Ella Annie Noble - DBE(C), 1969
Services to medicine
MANDER-JONES, Phyllis - MBE(C), 1971
Australian history
MANN, Ida Caroline - DBE(C), 1980
Services to the welfare of Aboriginals
MANNING, Eleanor - OBE(C), 1959
Chief Commissioner - SA Girl Guides Assocation
MANNING, Mildred Hagenauer - MBE(C), 1964
Education in Western Australia
MANUEL, Jean Maree - MBE(C), 1977
Local government
MARFELL, Helena Catherine - OBE(C), 1968
Social welfare
MARLAND, Valerie Hope - MBE(C), 1976
Community
MARSHALL, Dorothy May - MBE(C), 1952
Child welfare
MARTIN, Catherine Ellen - MBE(C), 1982
Medical journalism
MASSON, Orme - CBE(C), 1918
War work
MAXWELL, May - BEM(C), 1969
Journalism
MAYO, Edith Janet Allen - OBE(C), 1967
President of the War Widows Guild
MAYO, Edith Janet Allen - CBE(C), 1976
Community
MAYO, Helen Mary - OBE(C), 1935
Maternal & child welfare activities
MAYO, Lilian Daphne - MBE(C), 1959
Art in Queensland
McCLELLAND, Margaret - OBE(C), 1979
Medicine
McCLYMONT, Clarice Mavis - MBE(C), 1960
Public service to Grafton City Council
McCONNELL, Joyce Marion - OBE(C), 1976
Community
McCREADY, Georgina - MBE(C), 1963
Nursing profession
McDONALD, Janet - MBE(C), 1952
Nursing in Western Australia
McEWEN, Annie Mills - DBE(C), 1966
Public services
McGILL, Linda Carol - MBE(C), 1968
Long distance swimming
McHARDIE-WHITE, Jessie - RRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
McINTYRE, Margaret Edgeworth - OBE(C), 1948
Education
McKAY, Heather Pamela - MBE(C), 1969
Sport
McKENZIE, Florence Violet - OBE(C), 1950
Women's Emergency Signals Corps
McNAMARA, Natascha Duschene - MBE(C), 1978
Aboriginal education
McPHERSON, Margaret Heath - OBE(C), 1977
Medicine
MELBA, Nellie - DBE(C), 1918
Patriotic work during the war
MELBA, Nellie - DGBE(C), 1927
Services to Australia
MENZIES, Pattie Mae - DGBE(C), 1954
Public services to Australia
MEREDITH, Gwenyth Valmai - OBE(C), 1977
Arts
MIETHKE, Adelaide Laetitia - OBE(C), 1937
President of the Women's Council's 1936 Festival
MILLER, AE - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
MILLER, Mabel Flora - DBE(C), 1967
Distinguished public service
MILLER, Mary Durack - OBE(C), 1966
Australian literature
MILLER, Mary Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1967
Community
MILLER, Mary Elizabeth - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
MILLIS, Nancy Francis - MBE(C), 1976
Biological sciences & education
MILLS, May - OBE(C), 1960
Education & social welfare
MITCHELL, Heather Mary - OBE(C), 1979
Community
MITCHELL, Lorna May - BEM(C), 1966
Teaching of slow learning children
MITCHELL, Roma Flinders - CBE(C), 1971
Law
MITCHELL, Roma Flinders - DBE(C), 1982
Community services
MOLPHY, Ruth - MBE(C), 1987
Medicine
MONTGOMERY, Joan Mitchell - OBE(C), 1976
Education
MOSS, Alice Mabel - CBE(C), 1934
President of the National Council of Women
MOXHAM, Thelma Minnie - RRC, 1946
RAAF Nursing Service
MUNRO, Grace Emily - MBE(C), 1935
Philanthropy in New South Wales
MURDOCH, Elisabeth Joy - CBE(C), 1961
President - Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital
MURDOCH, Elizabeth Joy - DBE(C), 1963
Social welafre services
MUSCIO, Florence Mildred - OBE(C), 1938
Chairman of the National Council of Women
MYER, Margery Merlyn Baillieu - DBE(C), 1960
Charitable services
MYER, Merlya - OBE(C), 1948
Member of the National Council of the Red Cross
N
NASHAR, Beryl - OBE(C), 1972
Education & international relations
NEWTON-JOHN, Olivia - OBE(C), 1978
Performing arts
NICHOLLS, Helen - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
NIXON, Elizabeth - RRC, 1901
NSW Army Nursing Service
NORMAN, Decima Clara - MBE(C), 1982
Sport (Mrs Hamilton)
NORRIS, Ada May - DBE(C), 1976
Distinguished community service
NORRIS, Ada May - CMG, 1969
President of the National Council of Women
NOWLAND, Kathleen - ISM, 1955
Lady Davidson Repatriation Hospital - Matron
O
O'BRIEN, May Lorna - BEM(C), 1977
Aboriginal education
OCTOMAN, Janette Hannum - MBE(C), 1953
Social welfare services in South Australia
O'DONOGHUE, Lois - CBE(C), 1982
Aboriginal community (Mrs Smart)
OFFICER, Doris Lyne - OBE(C), 1959
Medical Officer - Victoria Free Kindergarten Union
O'HARRIS, Pixie - MBE(C), 1976
Arts (Mrs Bruce Pratt)
O'KELLY, Norah - MBE(C), 1973
Community
ONIANS, Edith Charlotte - OBE(C), 1933
Child welfare in Victoria
OWEN, Gladys - OBE(C), 1918
Red Cross Society
P
PARKER, Marjorie Alice - MBE(C), 1950
Charitable services in Launceston in Tasmania
PARKER, Marjorie Alice Collet - OBE(C), 1970
Community
PARKER, Marjorie Alice Collett - DBE(C), 1976
Distinguished community service
PARKER, Norma Alice - CBE(C), 1972
Education & child welfare
PEARSON, Kathleen Winifred - BEM(M), 1955
WRAAF - Brave conduct in a fire in a barracks
PERKINS, Jessie May - MBE(M), 1970
ARMY - WRAAC - Postwar Honours List
PIRIE, Daphne Mary - MBE(C), 1989
Hockey
PLUMB, Gwendoline Jean - BEM(C), 1973
Community & charities
POCOCK, Bessie - ARRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
PORTER, Una Beatrice - CBE(C), 1968
World President of the YWCA
PORTER, Una Beatrice - OBE(C), 1960
Social welfare
POTTER, Florence May - ISM, 1954
Army Department - Typist-in-Charge
PRICE, Joyce Ethel - CMG, 1978
Services to the Girl Guides movement
PRICE, Joyce Ethel - OBE(C), 1968
Girl Guides in Victoria
R
RAMACIOTTI, Vera - CBE(C), 1976
Charities
RANDALL, Nora Barry - MBE(C), 1982
Community
RANKIN, Annabelle Jane Mary - DBE(C), 1957
Political and public services
RAPHAEL, Margaret Betty - OBE(C), 1982
Medicine & health care (Mrs Burlace)
RAWSON, Marianne - RRC, 1902
Nurse from Victoria
READ, Irene - OBE(C), 1938
Charities
READER, Audrey Tattia Hinchcliffe - OBE(C), 1966
Community & social welfare
READER, Audrey Tattie Hinchcliffe - DBE(C), 1987
Service to women's affairs & politics
READING, Fanny - MBE(C), 1961
Social welfare services in New South Wales
REES, Lucy Frances Harvey - MBE(C), 1964
Literature
RISCHBIETH, Bessie Mabel - OBE(C), 1935
Women's movements
ROBERTS, Joan Howard - OBE(C), 1973
Handicappped
ROBERTS, Joan Howard - DBE(C), 1977
Services to the handicapped
ROBINSON, Nellie Elizabeth - OBE(C), 1978
Mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland
ROE, Raigh Edith - DBE(C), 1979
Services to women
ROPER, Edna Sirius - OBE(C), 1978
Parliament & trade union movement
ROSEBY, Gertrude Amy - OBE(C), 1958
Education
ROSS, Isabella Younger - OBE(C), 1938
Secretary - Baby Health Centre Assn of Victoria
ROSS-KING, Alice - MM, 1917
VMM 28/9/1917 LOND GAZ 30312, ARRC 3/6/1918 LOND GAZ 30716 AUST ANS
ROWE, Marilyn Patricia - OBE(C), 1980
Australian Ballet Compnay
RUSSELL, Delia Constance - OBE(C), 1920
Red Cross Society
RUSTON, Gertrude Winifred - MBE(C), 1970
Community
RYMILL, Shylie - OBE(C), 1942
Social welfare
S
SAGE, Annie Moran - RRC, 1942
AANS - Middle East
SAGE, Annie Moriah - CBE(M), 1951
ARMY - Nursing Service - Matron-in-Chief
SAVAGE, Ellen - GM, 1944
AANS: Lifesaving after ship attacked by submarine
SCANTLEBURY, Lilian Avis - OBE(C), 1959
Red Cross Society
SCHENK, Isobel May - BEM(C), 1977
Aboriginal welfare
SCOTT, Catherine Margaret Mary - DBE(C), 1981
Services to ballet (Mrs Denton)
SCOTT, Jessie Margaret - MBE(C), 1978
Local government
SCOTTER, Sheila Winifred Gordon - MBE(C), 1970
Journalism & commerce
SCOTT-YOUNG, Margery - CBE(C), 1977
Medicine
SEARBY, Mary Ethel - BEM(C), 1981
Community
SHARFSTEIN, Lottie - MBE(C), 1964
Medicine
SHAW, Edith Lydia - RRC, 1945
AANS - South West Pacific
SHERGOLD, Una - MBE(C), 1980
Medicine (Mrs O'Day)
SHIPTON, Eva Adeline - CBE(C), 1974
Medicine
SISLEY, Lorna Verdun - OBE(C), 1980
Medicine
SKUSE, Jean Enid - MBE(C), 1979
Community
SMITH, Ada - ISM, 1955
Taxation Office
SMITH, Margaret Jean - MBE(C), 1967
Sport & international relations
SMITH, Mary Isobel Marr - CBE(C), 1918
Red Cross in South Australia during the war
SMITH, Shirley Colleen - MBE(C), 1977
Aborigines
SNELLING, Joyce Mary - MBE(C), 1972
Ex-servicewomen
SPENCER, Ida May - MBE(C), 1961
Country Women's Association in WA
SPLATT, Beryl Audrey Pickering - MBE(C), 1965
Biochemistry Department at Melbourne Hospital
STEVENSON, Clare Grant - MBE(C), 1960
For social welfare services on behalf of ex-servicewomen
STEVENSON, Hilda Mabel - DBE(C), 1968
Social welfare services
STEVENSON, Hilda Mabel - CBE(C), 1963
Philanthropy
STEVENSON, Hilda Mabel - OBE(C), 1960
Philanthropy
STEVENSON, Mary Steel - MBE(C), 1954
Public service
STIRLING, Harriet Adelaide - OBE(C), 1936
Child welfare
STONE, June - BEM(C), 1976
Ex-servicemen & women
STONES, Elsie Margaret - MBE(C), 1977
Arts
SUTHERLAND, Joan - OM, 1991
Services to Opera & Singing
SUTHERLAND, Joan - DBE(C), 1978
Services to the performing arts
SUTHERLAND, Margaret - OBE(C), 1970
Music
SWEET, Georgina - OBE(C), 1935
Women's movements
SWINDELLS, Gertrude Rosina - ISM, 1954
Taxation Department - Supervisor
T
TANGNEY, Dorothy Margaret - DBE(C), 1968
Service to the Western Australia Parliament
TAYLOR, Florence Mary - OBE(C), 1939
Architecture & structural engineering
TAYLOR, Florence Mary - CBE(C), 1961
Architecture & civil engineering
TENISON-WOODS, Mary Cecil - CBE(C), 1959
Public service, especially with the UNO
THOMPSON, Freda Mary - OBE(C), 1972
Aviation
THOMPSON, Matilda Louise - MBE(C), 1941
Social welfare
THOMS, Patience Rosemary - OBE(C), 1970
President of the Federation of Business Women
TIPPING, Marjorie - MBE(C), 1981
Arts
TORNEY, Vera - MBE(M), 1942
ARMY - Australian Army Nursing Service
TUCKER, Margaret Elizabeth - MBE(C), 1968
Aboriginal community
U
UNDERWOOD, Erica Reid - MBE(C), 1977
Radio, education & the community
V
VALADIAN, Margaret - MBE(C), 1976
Aboriginal community
VAN PRAAGH, Margaret - DBE(C), 1970
Services to ballet
VAN PRAAGH, Margaret (Peggy) - OBE(C), 1966
Australian ballet
VASEY, Jessie Mary - OBE(C), 1950
Social welfare
VASEY, Jessie Mary - CBE(C), 1963
President of the War Widows Guild
VICKERY, Joyce Winifred - MBE(C), 1962
Botanist with the NSW Agriculture Department
W
WADDELL, Winifred - MBE(C), 1964
Preservation of natural flora
WADDY, Nannette Stacey - MBE(C), 1977
Medicine
WAKE, Nancy - GM, 1945
FANY: Special operations in France
WALKER, Eadith - CBE(C), 1918
Red Cross in New South Wales during the war
WALKER, Eadith Campbell - DBE(C), 1928
Philanthropic & charitable services
WALKER, Ellinor Gertrude - OBE(C), 1971
Community
WALKER, Kathleen Jean Mary - MBE(C), 1970, returned 1987
Community
WALSH, Agnes Miriam McLean - OBE(C), 1949
Matron - King Edward Memorial Hospital, WA
WALSH, Kathleen Helen - OBE(C), 1982
Paediatrics
WALTON, Nancy Bird - OBE(C), 1966
Far West Children's Health Scheme
WARBY, Margaret Joyce - QGM, 1977
Bravery during the Granville train crash
WARE, Dawn - MBE(C), 1967
Sport (Dawn Fraser)
WASSELL, Edith - MBE(C), 1920
Red Cross
WATERHOUSE, Kathleen Lucy - MBE(C), 1952
Matron of the Adelaide Children's Hospital
WATERWORTH, Edith Alice - OBE(C), 1935
Maternal & child welfare
WATSON, Jean - BEM(C), 1979
Service to the community
WATTS, Margaret Sturge - MBE(C), 1957
Assimiliation of new settlers
WEDGWOOD, Ivy Evelyn - DBE(C), 1967
Services to Parliament
WEEKES, Hazel Claire - MBE(C), 1978
Medicine
WEEKS, Daisy Ellen Rebecca - OBE(C), 1956
Councillor of the Alexandra Shire, Victoria
WELCH, Marilyn - OBE(C), 1972
Australian ballet
WELLS, Lilian Charlotte - OBE(C), 1977
Church
WEST, Winifred May - MBE(C), 1953
Child welfare & ex-servicemen
WHEATLEY, Alice Jean - OBE(M), 1951
RAAF - Nursing Service - Postwar Honours List
WHEATLEY, Alice Jean - ARRC, 1944
RAAF Nursing Service
WHEATON, Amy - MBE(C), 1939
Director - SA Board of Social Studies
WHEELER, Annie Margaret - OBE(C), 1920
Comforts & entertainment for the troops
WHEELER, Eileen Jessie - BEM(C), 1977
Community
WHITE, Jessie Ellen - MBE(C), 1978
Community
WHITE, Jessie McHardie - MBE(M), 1918
ARMY - Australian Army Nursing Service
WHITWORTH, Joyce Ethel - MBE(C), 1968
Community
WICKHAM, Tracey Lee - MBE(C), 1978
Swimming
WILLIAMS, Fanny Eleanor - ARRC, 1917
Australian Army Nursing Service
WILLIAMS, Fanny Eleanor - MBE(C), 1957
Walter & Eliza Hall Research Institute
WILLIAMS, Meta Talbot - OBE(C), 1985
Girl Guide movement
WILSON, Ellen Mary Kent - MBE(C), 1968
Medicine (Dr EK Hughes)
WILSON, G M - RRC, 1916
Australian Army Nursing Service
WILSON, Grace Margaret - CBE(M), 1919
ARMY - Army Nursing Services in France
WILTSHIRE, Elizabeth Deans - MBE(C), 1966
Art & the community (Mrs Betty Paterson)
WING, Marie Naomi - OBE(C), 1968
Medicine
WING, Marie Naomi - CBE(C), 1979
Rehabilitative medicine
WOLINSKI, Naomi - MBE(C), 1960
Women's sport
WOODS, Mary Tennison - OBE(C), 1950
Child welfare
WRAY, Leonora - MBE(C), 1968
Women's golf
Y
YOUNG, Jeanne Forster - OBE(C), 1938
Social welfare
Z
ZELLING, Sesca Ross - OBE(C), 1960
President - National Council of Women of SA