Wall, Annie (Winifred) (1900 - 2001)

Dr Winifred Wall spent her childhood in Broken Hill and Georgetown in the mid north of South Australia. After attending bush schools she went to Gladstone and Adelaide High Schools. Wall won a scholarship to study medicine at Adelaide University (1918-1922). She then worked at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where her duties included treating returned servicemen from World War I. She married Dr Fred Wall, they had four children, and she established a private practice. During World War II she returned to the Royal Adelaide Hospital where she specialised in anathesia. Foundation president of the Family Planning Association (South Australia), Wall was awarded Life membership of the Royal District Nursing Society, the Australian Medical Association and the British Medical Association. On 26 January 1979 Dr Wall was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly in the field of women’s affairs.

• Clark, Winifred (maiden name)

Events

1923	Member of the British Medical Association (awarded Life membership)
1923	Life Member - Member of the Australian Medical Association (awarded Life membership)
1925 - 1955	Medical practitioner in general practice
1934	Foundation member of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (SA)
1942 - 1958	Honorary anaesthetist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
1955	Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
1955 - 1972	Specialist anaesthetist
1961 - 1963	President of the Women Graduates Association at the University of Adelaide (later AFUW SA)
1965 - 1967	President of the Graduates Union at the University of Adelaide
1967	Initiated the establishment of the University of Adelaide Graduates Fund
1968 - 1970	President of the South Australian Medical Women's Society
1970 - 1973	President of the Family Planning Association (SA)
26 January 1979	Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly in the field of Women's Affairs
1992	Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

Membership

• Lyceum Club (Adelaide) Incorporated (1922 - )

  member for over 50 years

See also

• Lofthouse, Andrea (ed.), Who's who of Australian women, Methuen Australia, North Ryde (NSW), 1982, 504 pp. [ Details... ]
• National Council of Women of South Australia, Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, Netley, SA, 1986, 310 pp. [ Details... ]