HONOUR FOR A NURSE.
While Australia's soldiers have been upholding the honour of their country on the battlefield, an Australian nurse has been adding to the laurels that Australia has won throughout the war. News has been received in Melbourne that Miss Kuth E. Darbyshire has been awarded the Royal Red Cross, first class— highest honour that can be conferred upon -a nurse. The investiture was carried out bv His Majesty the King at Buckingham Palace, in the presence of a distinguished company. Miss Darbyshire went to London from Australia shortly after the commencement of the Boer war and rapidly made her way in the nursing 'profession. For six years she was matron of the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derbv. and now holds the unique position of being matron of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, W., and principal matron of the second ■ London general military hospital, Chelsea, S.W. The ceremony of investiture by the King received a good deal of publicity in the London newspapers, special mention being made of the fact of Miss Darbyshire being an Australian.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 25 August 1916, Page 6
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176HONOUR FOR A NURSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 25 August 1916, Page 6
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