Kathleen Hope Barnes
Kathleen Hope Barnes | |
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Nedlands | |
Nationality | Australia |
Education | Methodist Ladies' College |
Occupation | nurse |
Kathleen Hope Barnes
Life
Barnes was born in
In 1939 war was being declared in Britain and France and Barnes joined the Australian Army Nursing Service. In April 1940 she was in the first group of Western Australian nurses to be sent overseas when she left Fremantle on the Nevassa.[2]
In October 1942 she was in Port Moresby where she joined the 105th Casualty Clearing Station. She was a staff nurse and in the following March she became a lieutenant, and in August she was a captain. In November 1944 the Australian forces landed in Jacquinot Bay. In February 1945 she led the first few nurses to arrive in Jacquinot Bay[2] who were the first on the island of New Britain.[3]
In 1947 she was mentioned in dispatches[4] and she became an associate of the Royal Red Cross.[1] In the same year she joined the Silver Chain District and Bush Nursing Association where she was promoted until she was metropolitan nursing superintendent in 1955. She left ten years later after overseeing an expansion in the work. In 1958 she was the founding treasurer of the War Nurses’ Memorial Association.[1]
Barnes died in
References
- ^ a b c d Oppenheimer, Melanie, "Barnes, Kathleen Hope (1909–1981)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2023-09-19
- ^ a b "Australian Women and War". Anzac portal. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Jacquinot Bay, New Britain. Captain Kathleen Hope Barnes of Nedlands, WA, was in charge of the ..." www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- ^ "Kathleen Hope Barnes". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 2023-09-19.