Florence Nightingale Medal
It is of interest to read that Miss Grace Margaret Wilson, C.8.E., R.R.C., a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service, has been awarded the Florence Nightingale medal by the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva. The award is made among- nursing sisters who have given distinguished service on the field, m public calamities, or otherwise m civil life. Miss Wilson, who was appointed principal matron to the Australian Imperial Force m 1915, served at Mudros and m Egypt, France and England. She is now matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service. There are now three of these medals m Australasia. Miss Conyers, R.R.C., late matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service holding one, and
Miss Maclean, R.R.C., late matron-in-chief of the Xew Zealand Army Nursing Service the other.
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XXII, Issue 4, 1 November 1929, Page 207
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132Florence Nightingale Medal Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XXII, Issue 4, 1 November 1929, Page 207
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