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Meares, Mary Emma Goldsmith (1889 - 1964)

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Welfare worker
Born: 29 August 1889  Yule Station, Western Australia, Australia.  Died: 23 June 1964  West Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Mary Emma G. Meares was a welfare worker in Western Australia. In 1914 she joined the Western Australian division of the British Red Cross Society and served in Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs). She later became Commandant of the No. 507 VAD and Assistant State Controller of the VADs. Meares served overseas as a welfare worker with the British Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and the British Army. Other roles undertaken by Meares included Director of the Red Cross Hospital Visiting Committee, Honorary Secretary of the Soldiers' Welcome Committee and Assistant Secretary to the Maimed and Limbless Soldiers' Association.

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1921Certificate of Merit received from the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' (and Airmen's) Imperial League
1935King George V Silver Jubilee Medal received
1935Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
1937King George VI Coronation Medal received

 

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