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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18646, 15 August 1930, Page 4

Dame Rachel C rowdy: Dame Rachel Crowdy, who is attending the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference on behalf of the League of Nations, although still quite a young woman, has had an extraordinary eventful career. In her early ’twenties she spent a year in Guy’s Hospital, the knowledge of nursing gained during this period proving invaluable later on the outbreak of war. She next studied dispensing, and worked for the National Health Society as a lecturer and demonstrator. On the outbreak of war she crossed to Boulogne with the first batch of trained V.A.D.’s, and was put in charge as principal edinmander of thousands of V.A.D.’s in France and Belgium. For this highly responsible work she received many decorations, and was made a Dame of the British Empire. Her appointment as a member of the health section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations followed immediately after the war, and she was later put in change of the social section, and was the only woman to hold such a position.