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Australian Women
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Burchill, Dora (Elizabeth) (1904 - 2003)OAM, BA, MA, Blitt, RN, RM, IWC, Hon. DNursing |
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| Nurse, Author and Historian | |||
| Born: 4 January 1904 Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. Died: 3 December 2003. | |||
The daughter of Alholstane Chase and Rosina (née Sherrin), Elizabeth Burchill completed her education at the Camberwell State School and the Ladies Business College, Melbourne, as well as at Melbourne and Monash Universities. Before World War II Burchill worked at the Australian Inland Mission, Innamincka, Labrador, Grenfell Mission, and was a member of the British Ambulance Unit, caring for refugee children during the Spanish Civil War. She enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service on 21 December 1939 and was one of the first nurses from Victoria to go to the Middle East with the 2nd Australian Imperial Force in 1940. After the war she combined nursing with writing - particularly about the area in which she had nursed. Her publications include Australian Nurses since Nightingale: 1860-1990, a largely biographical history published in 1992. On 8 June 1998, Sister Elizabeth Burchill was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to nursing, particularly as an historian, author and philanthropist. Also she has won the Jessie Lichfield Annual Award and the Veterans' Affairs Writers Award. |
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| Sources used to compile this entry: Who's Who of Australian Women, p. 92 and Who's Who in Australia 2003, p. 351. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 16 June 2006 http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0448b.htm |