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Events
| 1927 - 1929 | Nursing training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital | | 1930 | Completed midwifery training at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne | | 1931 | Joined the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve | | 1931 - 1935 | Sister on staff at the Royal Melbourne Hospital | | 1936 - 1939 | Sister tutor at the Perth Hospital, Western Australia | | 19 December 1939 | Appointed Sister in the Australian Army Nursing Service | | March 1940 | Called up for service with the Australian Imperial Force | | May 1940 | Posted senior sister of the 2/2 Australian General Hospital (AGH) | | May 1940 - November 1940 | Served in England | | November 1940 - February 1942 | Served in the Middle East | | April 1941 - June 1941 | Appointed temporary matron | | September 1941 | Appointed matron | | March 1943 | Appointed deputy Matron-in-Chief | | 1 January 1945 | Awarded Associate Royal Red Cross | | February 1945 | Appointed Principal Matron | | April 1945 - November 1945 | Based on Morotai Island in the South West Pacific | | 1946 | Appointed matron of the 115 Military (Repatriation General) Hospital, Heidelberg | | March 1947 - January 1948 | Appointed principal matron, Southern Command | | 1948 | Awarded the United States of America's Bronze Star for her services | | 1950 | Matron of the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg | | June 1951 | Rejoined Australian Military Forces | | 17 September 1952 | Appointed matron-in-chief and granted the rank of honorary colonel | | 1953 | Awarded a Florence Nightingale medal | | 1 January 1955 | Awarded the Red Cross Medal | | 1957 | Appointed honorary nursing sister to Queen Elizabeth II | | 1960 | Gave the eighth annual oration for the New South Wales College of Nursing | | 31 December 1960 | Appointed Officer to the Order of the British Empire |
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Book Sections
- Bassett, Jan, 'Bowe, Ethel Jessie', in Ritchie, John (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 13, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1993, p. 231. [ Details... ]
See also
- Adam-Smith, Patsy, Australian women at war, Nelson, Melbourne, 1984, 386 pp. [ Details... ]
- Alexander, Joseph A (ed.), Who's who in Australia 1950, 14th edn, The Herald, Melbourne, 1950, 816 pp. [ Details... ]
- Bassett, Jan, Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992, 261 pp. [ Details... ]
- Mount-Batten, Betty J, From blue to khaki: The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 19421-1951, Betty J Mount-Batten, [Wollstonecraft, N.S.W.], 1995, 280 pp. [ Details... ]
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