Taylor, Marjory Alice Hamlet (1920 - )

Marjory Taylor became a Member of the Order of Australia on 9 June 1980 for her service to nursing.

During World War II she served with the Royal Australian Airforce Nursing Service (1944-1946) and worked voluntarily as senior nursing officer with the Girl Guide International Service in the British Zone, Germany, for three years.

From 1950 until 1981 Marjory worked with the Geelong Hospital, first as supervisor of the Maternity Wing and then Director of nursing. For 17 years - two as president - Marjory was a board member of the Intellectually Handicapped (Karingal) and was a founder and Board Member of the Geelong Hospice Care Association.

• Walkowski, Marjory Alice Hamlet (married name)

Events

1944 - 1946	Served with the Royal Australian Airforce Nursing Service
1947 - 1950	Voluntary Senior Nursing Officer for the Girl Guide International Service in the British Zone, Germany
1950 - 1956	Supervisor of the Maternity Wing at the Geelong Hospital
1956 - 1981	Director of Nursing at the Geelong Hospital
1968	Married Franciszek Walkowski (deceased 1987)
9 June 1980	Member of the Order of Australia for service to nursing
1981 - 1988	Member of the Geelong YWCA Board
1981 - 1991	Honorary Secretary of the Florence Nightingale Commission Australia
1982 - 1985	President of the Geelong YWCA Board
1982 - 1992	Member of the Board of Management for the Fairfield Hospital, Victoria
1984 - 1987	Chairman of the Board of Management for the Fairfield Hospital, Victoria
1985 - 1989	Member of the National Executive of the YWCA

Membership

• Soroptimist International of the South West Pacific (SISWP)

  for 21 years

Presided

• Soroptimist International of the South West Pacific (SISWP)

  for 2 years

Related Corporate Bodies

• Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) (1940 - )

  Service no: 500540

  [1944 - 1946]

Books

• Taylor, Beverley, 50 years of influence : an oral history of Marjory Taylor, Centre for Professional Development in Health Sciences, Southern Cross University in collaboration with Geelong Hospital Nurses League, Lismore, NSW, 1996, 264 pp. [ Details... ]
• Taylor, Marjory, From matrons to directors of nursing, Association of Directors of Nursing, Caulfield, Vic., 1991, 104 pp. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Department of Veterans' Affairs, 'TAYLOR, MARJORY HAMLET', in World War 2 Nominal Roll, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1069432. [ Details... ]

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2002, 2020 pp. [ Details... ]