Rawson, Marianne

Marianne Rawson gained distinction as a Victorian nursing sister who served in the Boer War and was one of the three Australian nurses to be awarded the Royal Red Cross medal for service in that conflict. She was the lady superintendent of the ten Victorian nurses who sailed for South Africa with the Third (Bushmen's) Contingent on the Euryalus on 10 March 1900. They went to Rhodesia and served at Salisbury, Fort Charter, Bulawayo, Hillside, Mafeking, Springfontein and Tuli. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross medal on 26 June 1902 for her outstanding work and courage in the care of patients and was Mentioned in Dispatches on 29 July 1902. The Governor of Western Australia presented her with her RRC medal in Kalgoorlie in 1903.

See also

• Bassett, Jan, Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992, 261 pp. [ Details... ]
• Chamberlain, Max, 'Australian nurses in the Boer War', in Defending Victoria, 2002, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/readroom.htm#nursing. [ Details... ]
• Goodman, R., Our war nurses, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, Queensland, 1988, 294 pp. [ Details... ]
• MacFarlane, Ian, 'Victorian nurses in the Boer War', in Defending Victoria Australia, 2002, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/nurses.html. [ Details... ]