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Sage, Annie Moriah (1895 - 1969)CBE, RRC |
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| Born: 17 August 1895 Somerville, Victoria, Australia. Died: 6 April 1969 Frankston, Victoria, Australia. | ||||
| Annie Moriah Sage's distinguished military nursing career in the Second World War included the introduction of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service Training Scheme and she was closely involved in the planning and establishment of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps as an integral part of the Australian Regular Army and the Citizen Military Forces. After the war she took an active and leading role in the establishment of the War Nurses Memorial Centre and the Centaur War Nurses Fund. Through her work with the (Royal) College of Nursing she made a very important contribution to postgraduate nursing education. She was also active in the negotiations that brought about the 1958 Nurses' Act which gave wider power to the registering authority, the Victorian Nursing Council. |
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CBE (Military Division) 1951. Educated Royal Melbourne Hospital; midwifery training, Melbourne Women's Hospital; infant welfare training, Victorian Baby Health Centre and Diploma, Sanitary Institute of London; Health Visitor and School Nurse certificates, Sanitary Institute of London. Matron, Victorian Baby Health Centres Training School 1931-39; Royal Australian Army Nursing Service 1939; Matron 2/2nd Australian General Hospital 1940; Matron-in-Chief, Australian Imperial Forces 1941; Matron-in-Chief (rank of Colonel), Royal Australian Army Nursing Service 1943-47; Lady Superintendent, (Royal) Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1947-51. Royal Red Cross Medal 1942; Florence Nightingale Medal 1947; International Geneva Red Cross Award 1947. Foundation member, first president and honorary fellow, (Royal) College of Nursing, Australia.
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