Adderley, Vera May (1915 - )

Vera Adderley worked at the Dubbo and Crown Street Hospitals before serving with the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service from 1941 to 1947. She joined the Parramatta Hospital in 1955 and in 1962 she was appointed Assistant Matron at the Prince Henry Hospital. Adderley became Director of Nursing Services at the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals in 1966. She was also a council member of the College of Nursing New South Wales, the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association and the Matrons’ Institute of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. In 1978, Adderley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire and a building is named in her honour on the Randwick Hospitals Campus.

Events

1934 - 1938	With Dubbo Hospital
1939	With Crown Street Hospital
1941 - 10 October 1947	Served with the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service
1955 - 1962	With Parramatta Hospital
1962 - 1966	Assistant matron at the Prince Henry Hospital
1965	Council member of the College of Nursing New South Wales
1966	Council member of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association
1966	Council member of the Matrons' Institute of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
1966	Director of Nursing Services at the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals, Sydney
30 December 1978	Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Related Corporate Bodies

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

  [1941 - 1947]

Books

• Halstead, Gay., Story of the RAAF nursing service : 1940-1990, Nungurner Press, Metung, Vic., 1994, 440 pp. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Department of Veterans' Affairs, 'ADDERLEY, VERA MAY', in World War 2 Nominal Roll, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1068853. [ Details... ]

See also

• Legge, J S (ed.), Who's who in Australia 1968, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1968, 956 pp. [ Details... ]