Healy, June Marie (1934 - )

Before enlisting in the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) in 1960, June Healy was a member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corp. She attended the 9/60 Officer Cadet Course (OCS) and was then posted as Adjutant/Quartermaster at 31 WRAAC Barrack Melbourne and in 1962 to WRAAC School as Adjutant (CMF).

After her marriage to Major John Healy in 1963, June held an assortment of positions, usually in the area of training and office management, wherever her husband was posted. Also she worked as a volunteer on numerous Army Wives Committees and helped in setting up the first Thrift Shop at the Canungra Land Welfare Centre to assist in the funding of the local Girl Guides. In 1978 Healy became a member of the WRAAC Association and has served as the State vice-president and president of the ACT Association. From 1995 until 1999 she was National president. Since 1981 Healy has been a foundation member of the Defence Widows Support Group. This group assists defence widows whose husbands were not killed during war service, did not die of war caused disabilities and therefore do not qualify for a War Widows' Pension. On 11 June 1990 June Healy was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to veterans. In 1994 she became a member of the War Widows' Guild of Australia (ACT) and was State president from 1995 to 1998 and National president from 1998 to 2002.

In October 2002 June Healy joined the Australian Women in War Project representing the War Widows' Guild of Australia.

• Davidson, June (maiden name)

Events

1949	Graduated from Girdlestone Girls School, Perth
1951 - 1960	Worked for the West Australian Newspaper Limited
1954 - 1960	Served with the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corp (RAANC) (CMF)
1960	Officer cadet at the WRAAC School Sydney (ARA)
1960 - 1965	Served with the Women's Royal Australian Army Corp (WRAAC)
1961	Adjutant Quartermaster 31 WRAAC Barrack Melbourne (ARA)
1963	Married John Boyd Healy
1963	Adjutant WRAAC School Sydney (ARA)
1965	First daughter born
1966 - 1968	Research and Library Assistant at Sandhurst Military Academy (United Kingdom)
1970	Employed in staff training for John P Young and Associates Management Consultants
1971	Birth of second daughter
1972 - 1973	Worked with Cheshire Homes Muscular Dystrophy patients
1972 - 1973	Worked with Singapore Childrens Home abandoned and orphaned children
1972 - 1973	Worked with Tampines Homes - Physically and Mentally Disabled persons
1974	Employed in staff training for Condamine Country Estate Brisbane
1978	Employed in staff training for Village Cinemas Melbourne
1978 - 1981	Member of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) on the International Disaster Emergency Committee (IDEC)
1980	Member of the International Disaster Emergency Committee of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid
1981	Foundation member of the Defence Widows Support Group
1981 - 1992	Deputy national secretary of the Returned & Services League of Australia
1987	Board member of COTA (Australia)
1990	Board member of the Ryder Cheshire World War Memorial Fund
11 June 1990	Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to veterans
1992 - 1995	National secretary of the Returned & Services League of Australia
1993	Board member of the Life Education Centre
1994	Deputy national president of COTA (Australia)
1995 -	Member of the Veteran's Affairs Medical Ethics Committee
1995	Member of the Respite Review Reference Group for the Department of Human Services and Health
1995	Qualified reviewer for the Community Health and Accreditation Standards Program (CHASP)
1995	Member of the Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation (ACT)
1995	Board member of the Governing Council RMC Duntroon Society
1995	Board member of the Heart Foundation (ACT Division)
1995	President of the War Widows' Guild ACT
1995	National president of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps Association (WRAAC)
1995	Committee member of the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC)
1995	Member of the Respite Care Task Group for Aged Care Australia
1995	Committee member of the Quality Use of Medicines in Nursing Homes Working Party for the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council
1995	Member of the committee for Hospital and Quality Use of Medicines for the Consumer Health Forum
1995	Member of the Response to the Industry Committee Report
1995	Member of the Pharmaceutical Project Steering Committee
1995	Committee member of "Access" (ACROD)
1995	Committee member of the Hospital Discharge Planning Working Party for the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council
1995	Member of the Seniors Card Scheme Committee for the Australian Capital Territory Government
1996	Chairperson of the Peer Education Project - Pharmaceuticals
1996	Board member of ACTION Bus Advisory Committee
1996 - 1998	National president of the Council on the Ageing (Australia)
1997	Member of the Guild Commercial Limited Pharmacy Intranet Consultative Group
1997	Consumer representative on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Council (PBAC)
1997	Member of the Preventive Care Trial Steering Committee for the Department of Veterans' Affairs
1997	Member of the Disease Management Advisory Committee for the Health Insurance Commission
1998	Honorary president of the Canberra Services Club
1998	Honorary secretary of the Heart Foundation (ACT) Division
1998 - 2002	National president of the War Widows' Guild (Australia)
6 February 2004	Represented the War Widows' Guild of Australia at the dedication of the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

Presided

• War Widows' Guild of Australia (1947 - )

  [1998 - 2002]

Related Corporate Bodies

• Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) (1948 - )

  [1954 - 1960]

• War Widows' Guild of Australia (1947 - )

  June Healy OAM reoresented the War Widows' Guild of Australia at the dedication of the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

  [2004 - ]

• Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) (1951 - 1985)

  [1960 - 1965]

Related Cultural Artefacts

• Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

  June Healy OAM represented the War Widows' Guild of Australia at the dedication of the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

  [2004 - ]

CD Roms

• Healy, June, 1934-, Interview with June Healy, retired officer of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Deputy National Secretary, 1981-1992, and National Secretary, 1992-1994, of the Returned Services League of Australia [sound recording], Colhourn, Terry, 1924, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 7 and 14 May 2001. [ Details... ]

See also

• Bomford, Janette, Soldiers of the Queen : women in the Australian Army, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Vic., 2001, 183 pp. [ Details... ]