History of Nurses, Doctors and Dentists

People

The Australian Country Hospital Heritage Association has a significant collection of photographs of the people who contributed to the delivery of health services in this region during the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Samples are presented on this website. Unfortunately, as with many such collections, few of the individuals in these photographs are identified. If you are able to provide additional information about the photographs or the individuals, we would be very pleased to hear from you. Of course many of the photographs are interesting for the secondary information they contain - the uniform of the day, a glimpse of the building in the background, the lifestyle of the participants, the equipment in use and so on.

Matron Rosa Annie (Rose) Christmas of the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1910	Nursing staff with patients at Westwood Sanatorium early 1920s	Nursing staff Westwood Sanatorium 1932
Dr Frank Wooster, Matron Sarah Costello & Staff at Tannachy 1939	Rockhampton Hospital Staff 1930	Sister Margaret Graham with staff of the Men's Medical Ward Christmas Day 1940
Westwood staff 1935	Nursing staff having afternoon tea at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1903	Dr Talbot and Matron Betty Shera at Tannachy Hospital in 1955
Matron Margaret Graham Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1960	Nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1923	Matron Maud Green Rockhampton Hospital 1930
Matron Norma West Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1980	Matron Norma West with students	Dr N C Talbot
Hillcrest Hospital nursing staff in February 1922	Staff at the Lady Goodwin Hospital Rockhampton ca. 1937	Staff at the Lady Goodwin Hospital ca. 1936
Sister Ivy Baker at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1930	Sister Alma Crudgington at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1936	Rockhampton Hospital Nurse 1937
Sister Clarice Crudgington with colleagues, Rockhampton Hospital graduation 1925.	Student nurses at Rockhampton Hospital in the 1920s	Student Nurses Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1945
Student nurses at the Rockhampton Women's Hospital 1908	Nurses laying a wreath on Anzac Day 1967	Dr Daniel Patrick O'Brien & Staff Leinster 1930's
Voss Family and Staff at Hillcrest Hospital 1922	Nurse Elsie Crudgington at the Rockhampton Hospital 1918	Tannachy Hospital staff 1940's
Matron C. M. (Kitty) Lewis Rockhampton Hospital Dec 1964.	Victory Procession 1945	Nurse Joan Holder at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1945
Matron Kitty Lewis with colleagues at a Royal Austalian Nursing Federation meeting	Matron Gertrude Everil (Gus) Moore	Sister Ivy Baker at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1960
Nurse Ivy Baker with colleagues at the Rockhampton Hospital in 1927	Nurses Rockhampton Hospital Christmas Day 1937	Rockhampton Hospital Graduation 1971
Director of Nursing Norma West with the Nursing Administrative Team	Dean John Baynton with Nurses at Florence Nightingale Memorial Service 1977	Graduating nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital in 1972
Rockhampton Hospital Nurses at Graduation 30 Jul 1969	Rockhampton Hospital Children's Ward Christmas 1940	Elsie Louisa Crudgington Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1921
Rockhampton Hospital Staff 1915	Nurse Clarice Crudgington 1923	Nurse Lillian Ross ca. 1927
Nurse Olga Glazebrook, Rockhampton Hospital, ca. 1942	Sister Ivy Baker at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1930	Sister Iris Pollard Rockhampton Hospital 1935
Elizabeth Ada Dickason (née Luck) ca. 1900	Group photograph of doctors and nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital in 1919	Christmas decorations in a Rockhampton Hospital Ward in 1963
Sister Edna May Weber (later Edna May Besch) at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1930	Sister Edna May Weber (later Edna May Besch) in RAAF Nursing Service uniform ca. 1945	St Andrew's Hillcrest Private Hospital Board of Directors 1957
Rockhampton Hospital nurse graduation ceremony 1971	Leinster Private Hospital Rockhampton 1915	Sister Margret Fraser (03 Feb 1897 - 18 Apr 1952)
Charge nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital in the 1980s	Using the buggy at Westwood Sanatorium ca. 1936	Mrs Nellie Geary (née Round) in a sulky at the opening of the Westwood Sanatorium 1919.
Sister Edna May Weber and Kath Davidson at the Westwood Sanatorium 1933	Group of three unidentified people in front of the main building at the Westwood Sanatorium	Two senior nursing staff members of the Westwood Sanatorium
Rockhampton Women's Hospital ca. 1930	Matron Sarah Maud Green and midwifery staff of the Rockhampton Women's and Lady Goodwin Hospitals	Christmas with children at the Rockhampton Hosptal 1939
Nurse Elizabeth (Betty) Francis (later Elizabeth West) with patient, Christmas 1948	Nurse Betty Francis (later Elizabeth West) at Rockhampton Hospital's old Isolation Ward 1948	Group of nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1940
Group of nurses in uniform Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1957	Sister Clarice Crudgington with colleagues at Rockhampton Hospital	Sister Haynes with student nurses at the Rockhampton Show ca. 1962
Home Sister farewells student from Rockhampton Hospital Nurses' Quarters	Nursing staff at Lady Goodwin Hospital ca. 1940	Nurses at the scene of a fire which destroyed their quarters in 1945
Staff at Tannachy Hospital Rockhampton ca. 1940	Nursing Staff at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca. 1940	Nurses at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca. 1940
Nurses Jill Crossan and Olga Freestone at Tannachy Hospital ca. 1940	Nurses Olga Freestone and Dorothy Bradley at Tannachy Hospital ca. 1940	Nurses Jill Crossan and Mercie Whellan at Tannachy Hospital ca. 1940
Nurse Mercie Whellan, Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca. 1940	Nurse Dorothy Beasley in the garden at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca. 1940	Nurses Betty Stone and Margaret Hawkins at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca.1940
Sister Doris Reid at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton, ca. 1940	Sister Sabin and Harold Boyd, Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca. 1940	Sisters Lillian Abbott, Rebie Reid, Doris Hill and Sylvia Andersen at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton
Sisters Rebie Reid and Lillian Abbott at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca.1940	Nurse Jill Crossan at Tannachy Hospital ca. 1940	Nursing staff at Tannachy Hospital, Rockhampton ca. 1940
Nursing staff at Muttaburra Hospital ca. 1936	Doctor and Nursing Staff, Muttaburra Hospital ca. 1936	Nursing staff Muttaburra Hospital ca. 1937
Matron Weber with her dog, Muttaburra Hospital ca. 1937	Nurse Annie Elizabeth Twort Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1918	Nurse Sarah Eliza Costello Rockhampton Hospital 1918
Nurse Mary Morgan Rockhampton Hospital 1918	Nurse Rowena (Rene) Gordon, Rockhampton, ca. 1918	Sister Maggie McCormack, Rockhampton 1926
Nurse's photograph on postcard ca.1925	Sister Hilda Jane Anthony in uniform	Sister Margaret Veronica Manning at Rockhampton Hospital 1941
Sister Fanny Merle Seear Cheetham in uniform ca. 1947	Nurse Clarice Crudgington Rockhampton Hospital 1923	Sister Flora Gladys Evelyn Easton Rockhampton Hospital 1936
Doris Kathleen Baker Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1940	Margaret (Peg) Davis Rockhampton Hospital December 1937	Sister Pearl Louise Stuart ca. 1930
Nurse Vera May Auton Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1941	Sister Avis Adelia Auton Rockhampton Hospital 1940	Sister Ethel Auton Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1937
Nurse Olga Glazebrook Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1942	Sister Ivy Baker Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1938	Nurses in uniform Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1918
Postcard showing Nurses Whyte and Morgan 1938	Postcard picturing two nurses 1920	Nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1922
Nurses in uniform ca. 1925	Sisters Baker and Curran, Rockhampton Hospital 1938	Nursing staff at the Rockhampton Hospital 1959
Nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1956	Group of nurses at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1938	Staff Nurse Editha Haynes and Sister K. Jeffries at the Rockhampton Hospital 1940s
Nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1950	Rockhampton Hospital nursing sisters ca. 1940	Nursing staff at Tannachy Hospital 1940s
Sister Ada Catherine Deane (married name Walters), Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1929	Nurse Doris Kathleen Baker at the Rockhampton Hospital November 1938	Dr Norman Charles Talbot in the uniform of the Royal Army Medical Corps ca. 1918
Sister Avis Smith (née Auton) with children at Rockhampton Hospital in 1964.	Sister Avis Smith (née Auton) in the Children's Ward of the Rockhampton Hospital in 1964	Student nurses with the Medical Superintendent and Matron at Rockhampton Hospital in 1926.
Matron E. M. O'Connor at Rockhampton Hospital graduation with Hon. Neville Hewitt MLA 30 Jul 1969.	Matron Dorothy Search and Sister Alma Crudgington at Beaudesert Hospital in 1939	A group of student nurses on the steps of the Rockhampton Hospital January 1966
Nursing Sisters at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1940	Nurses Graduation Ceremony Rockhampton Hospital 1959	Rockhampton Hospital nurses on graduation day ca. 1962
Rockhampton Hospital nurses graduation ceremony 1960	Medical and nursing staff at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1926	Matron Sarah Maud Green with nurses at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1940
Graduating nurses, Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1938	Graduating nurses, Rockhampton Hospital 1940	Nurses-in-training or bathing beauties at Rockhampton General Hospital ca. 1926
Sister Editha Haynes with Rockhampton Hospital Nurses at the Rockhampton Show ca. 1960	Sisters Fuller and Traves at Rockhampton Hospital October 1971	Retired/retiring Rockhampton nursing sisters at a function June 1970
Rockhampton Hospital Medical Superintendent Mr Tom Sale with nurses at graduation 1971	Rockhampton Hospital fund-raising fete 23rd October 1915	Sisters Lillian Abbott, Rebie Reid, Doris Hill and Sylvia Andersen at Tannachy Hospital 1940s.
Opening of the first Mount Morgan Hospital, 30th August 1890	Queensland Governor Lord Lamington visits first Mount Morgan Hospital 5th June 1896	Doctors, nurses and dispenser at Mount Morgan's first hospital ca. 1905
Nurses in butterfly veils Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1957	Sister Nancy Crapp at Woorabinda 1957	Graduating nurses Rockhampton Hospital 1957
Margaret Heather Smith at Mater Hospital Rockhampton 1954	Nursing graduates and senior nurses, Mater Hospital, Rockhampton 1956	Nurses at the Mater Hospital, Rockhampton, 1956
Nurses at the Mater Hospital Graduation Ceremony 1957	Graduating nursing students with family members, Mater Hospital Rockhampton 1957	Rockhampton Hospital Committee, Matron and Staff 1919
Sister Martha Homewood ca. 1916	Horse drawn hospital float, World War 1 Victory Celebrations	Sister Mary Alma (Alma) Collins in the uniform of the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War 2
Sister Gladys Mary Murphy in the uniform of the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War 2	Sister Alma Crudgington in Australian Army Nursing Service ca.1940	Sister Alma Crudgington in Australian Army Nursing Service uniform ca. 1941
Sister Bridget Blackwood (née Foley) in Australian Army uniform, ca. 1941	Sister Elizabeth Kenny in Australian Army Nursing Service uniform ca. 1910	Second World War victory celebrations in Rockhampton 1945
World War 2 victory celebrations in Rockhampton on Victory in the Pacific Day in August 1945	Director of Nursing Norma West with the Nursing Administrative Team Rockhampton Hospital	Charge Nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital in the 1980s
Group of senior nurses in front of the Rockhampton Hospital Nurses Quarters	Nursing staff at the Rockhampton Hospital 1959	Nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital, Christmas Day 1940
Matron Norma West speaking with outstanding nursing graduate Brian Sedgman 1974	Tutor Sister Editha Haynes with nurses at the Rockhampton Show ca. 1960	Nursing management team, Rockhampton Hospital 1991
Rockhampton Nurse of the Year contest 1974	Anti-Flu uniform worn by Nurse Gertie Heard at the Rockhampton Hospital 1919	Matron Grace Enid de Satgé of Coffs Harbour ca. 1986
Matron Rosa Annie (Rose) Christmas Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1907	Graduating nurses at Rockhampton Hospital mid-1938	Medical Superintendent and nursing staff, Rockhampton Hospital, March 1925
Nurses at Rockhampton Hospital Graduation Ceremony Dec 1965	Rockhampton Hospital medical and nursing staff ca. 1930	Medical and nursing staff at the Rockhampton Hospital 1932
Rockhampton Hospital medical, nursing and administrative staff ca.1936	Rockhampton Hospital staff 1951	Rockhampton Hospital Nurses on their graduation day 1946
Third year nurses at Rockhampton Hospital 1945	Student nurses at Rochampton Hospital ca. 1945	Attendees at Rockhampton Base Hospital fete 1964
Mr Thomas Butterfield Renshaw, Chairman of the Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board 1926 - 1929	Mr Thomas William Farnell, first Chairman of the new Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board in 1925	Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board 1940
William Charles Goss, Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board Chairman 1929 - 1930	Mr Owen Daniel, Government appointee to the Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board and Chair 1930 - 1932	Mr William Clayton, Chair of the Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board 1932 - 1933
Mr L. G. Haigh, Chair of the Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board 1933 - 1953	Mr William Thomson, Secretary, Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board, 1925 - 1941	Administrative staff, Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board, 1939
Administrative staff, Rockhampton Hospitals’ Board, 1939	Nurses wearing uniforms from different time periods	Matron Norma West with staff of the Rockhampton Hospital Nurse Education Centre 1978
Rockhampton Hospital Nurse Education Centre Staff 01 Mar 1978	Rockhampton Hospital Nurse Education Centre Staff 01 Mar 1978	Director of Nursing Norma West, Rockhampton Hospital, 1987
Rockhampton Hospital Nurse Education Centre staff 19 Mar 1979	Rockhampton Hospitals Board 01 October 1986	Rockhampton Hospitals Board 01 Oct 1986
Rockhampton Hospitals Board ca. 1983	Rockhampton Hospitals Board ca. 1991	Nurse Joan Klowss on the third level balcony of the Rockhampton Hospital Nurses’ Quarters in March
Matron Margaret Graham and Tutor Sister Editha Haynes with nursing graduate Hazel Lund at Graduation	Graduating nurses with Tutor Sister Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1960	Rockhampton Hospital nursing graduates with senior staff on graduation day in 1960
Newly graduated nursing sisters at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1961	Rockhampton Hospital nurses on their graduation day ca. 1963	Rockhampton Hospital Nurses on Graduation Day 12 Dec 1964
Rockhampton Hospital Nurses Graduation Dec 1965	Rockhampton Hospital nursing graduates cut their graduation cake Dec 1965.	Sister Mary Holmes on her midwifery graduation day Rockhampton Hospital 18 Jan 1973
Group of nurses graduating in midwifery at Rockhampton Hospital on 18 Jan 1973.	Sisters Ivy Baker and Alma Collins with an unidentified Sister at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1952	Retirement of Hospitals Board Secretary, Cecil Pritchard, 1975
Presentation of Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal to Mr Cecil Pritchard, 1977	Sister Mary Margaret Carroll in uniform ca.1929 Rockhampton	Nurses at the Rockhampton Hospital on the day of their final examinations in 1954
Nursing graduation Rockhampton Hospital May 1955	Nurse Margaret Neale Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1953	Sister Maureen Joan Ockenden Rockhampton Hospital 1955
Nurse Maureen Joan Ockenden Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1955	Sister Barbara Lees Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1955	Sister Clarice Wieting Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954
Nurses Daphne Torenbeck and Maureen Joan Ockenden Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1953	Nurses Gwen Gorman, Barbara Lees and Meg Leslie Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954	Nurse Patricia Fox with patient at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954
Nurse Hope Nelson at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954	Nurse Elizabeth Deacon at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954	Nurse Thelma Robbins at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954
Nurse Patricia Fox at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954	Nurses Hope Nelson and Mary Thomasson at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954	Nurses Daphne Torenbeck, Joan Ockenden and Gwenda Torenbeck at the Rockhampton Hospital Ball ca. 195
Nurses Barbara Lees, Gwen Gorman and Meg Leslie at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954.	Nurses Iris Tacey and Maureen Joan Ockenden Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954	Group of nurses with their Tutor Sister at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954
Sister Barbara Lees at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney ca. 1955	Sister Barbara Lees at the Crown Street Women’s Hospital, Sydney in 1955	Sister Joan Miller (née Ockenden) at St Andrew's Hospital Rockhampton in the 1970s.
Nurses and Wardsman dressed for theatre at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1954	Senior nursing staff at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1983	Tutor Sister Editha Haynes with nurses at the Rockhampton Show ca. 1960
Brian Sedgeman, top Queensland nurse in 1974, being congratulated by colleagues.	Dr Jack Gillogly with Rockhampton Hospital X-Ray staff 1969	Christmas decorations in the Port Curtis and Leichhardt Districts Hospital ca. 1891
Christmas decorations in a hospital ward at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1930	A Rockhampton Hospital Ward decorated for Christmas ca. 1930	Decorated ward for Christmas in the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1930
Rockhampton Hospital ward decorated for Christmas Day ca. 1930	Christmas at Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1935	Christmas decorations in the Childrens Ward at the Rockhampton Hospital 1938
Childrens Ward, Rockhampton Hospital, 25 Dec 1940	Childrens Ward Rockhampton Hospital Christmas Day 1948	Christmas Day decorations in the Childrens Ward at the Rockhampton Hospital in 1950.
Christmas decorations in a ward at the Rockhampton Hospital 1960s.	Rockhampton Hospital nurse graduation ceremony 1957	Matron, nursing staff and cook at Rockhampton Hospital 1917
Rockhampton Hospital Staff Christmas 1910	Matron Mary Jane Hood, Rockhampton Hospital, 1895	Nursing staff at the Rockhampton Hospital ca.1918
Lieutenant (later Captain) Ada Catherine Walters née Deane in her WW2 Nursing Service uniform	Lieutenant (later Captain) Ada Catherine Walters née Deane in her WW 2 Nursing Service uniform	Group of nurses Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1940
Doris Kathleen Baker at Rockhampton Hospital September 1937	Sister Doris Kathleen Baker as Matron of the Mackay Hospital	Diverse student intake to Rockhampton Hospital nurse education program 1970
Nurses with their Tutor-Sister, Editha Haynes, at the Rockhampton Hospital ca. 1961	Rockhampton Hospital nurse Graduation Ceremony 12 Dec 1964	Sister Alice Ethel Imison in World War 1 nurses uniform 1917 Rockhampton Qld
Sister Alice Ethel Imison in the nurses uniform of the Australian Army Nursing Service inn World War	Miss Marianne Dowling in her nurse’s uniform ca. 1911	Marianne Dowling in nursing sister’s uniform at Yeppoon Hospital ca.1935
Marianne Dowling in nursing sister’s uniform at Yeppoon Hospital ca. 1935	Marianne Dowling with fellow nurses in uniform, ca. 1911	Sister Daphne June McMillan receiving her certificate from Health Minister S. D. Tooth in late 1968
Rockhampton Hospital nurses in operating theatre outfit ca. 1939	Rockhampton Nursing Sisters in uniform ca. 1925	Student nurses in class at the Rockhampton Hospital, September 1965
First group of RAAF nurses sent to New Guinea during World War 2	RAAF Sister Edna Weber assisted by New Guinean men during World War 2