• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH002951

AIF Malayan Memorial Nursing Scholarship

  • Repository The University of Melbourne Archives
  • Reference 2016.0061
  • Date Range 1940 - 2015
  • Description

    [Red Cross Archives series reference: NO39] This series comprises deeds of trust, amendments to the deed, minutes of the board and sub-committees, circulars, annual reports, correspondence, financial documents, terms of reference with Curtain University of Technology, historical account of the scholarship, press cuttings, newsletters, ephemera, brochures as well as publications pertaining to profiling trust fund recipients. The AIF Malaya Memorial Nursing Scholarship established as ‘a living memorial’ to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Malaya personnel who lost their lives during World War Two. The annual scholarship supports the education and training of Malayan and Singaporean nurses in Australia who then return to their communities to practice. Prior to 1988, this consisted of in-service hospital courses in institutions across Victoria – thereafter the scholarship has been hosted in conjunction with Curtin University of Technology, Perth. http://www.aifredcross.com.au/a-living-memorial/ See also: Correspondence Files, National Headquarters (2015.0033) Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff.

  • Quantity 6 units 1.02 m
  • Access Open

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    • Australian Red Cross (1914 - )