Herring, Violet Muriel (1880 - 1966)

Violet Herring, née MacGregor, gave forty years of service to the Red Cross Society and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to that organisation in 1954. Although educated in Melbourne, she spent most of her life in Queensland, and was a life member of the Creche and Kindergarten Association, vice-president of the District Nursing Association of Queensland for thirty years and a driver for the Lady Goodwin District Nursing Transport Corps for twenty years. She also served on the committees of the 2nd Australian Imperial Forces Nurses' Fund and for the building of St Martin's hospital.

• MacGregor, Violet Muriel (maiden name)

Book Sections

• 'Herring, Violet Muriel (Queenie), nee MacGregor (c.1880-1966). Community worker, Brisbane', in H. J. Gibbney and Ann G. Smith (eds), A biographical register, 1788-1939: Notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra, 1987, p. 326. [ Details... ]