Leah Rosenthal
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Associate Royal Red Cross |
Leah Rosenthal, First World War.[1]
Early life
Rosenthal was born in
Toorak. They left the hospital, and Australia, together in December 1915 and travelled to England to serve in the First World War.[1]
Nursing career
In England, Rosenthal and Jobson joined
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), and in February 1916 they were assigned to Baythorpe Military Hospital in Nottingham.[2] In April of that year, they embarked for duty in France.[3] Rosenthal was assigned to various stationary hospitals and casualty clearing stations and served until April 1919, when she resigned her position.[1] She returned to Melbourne in May, and she and Jobson again bought a private hospital to run together. The hospital had previously been named St Luke’s Private Hospital, however Jobson and Rosenthal re-named it Vimy House, perhaps after the site of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, one of the battlegrounds where the pair had nursed in France during the war.[4]
Rosenthal was awarded the
Associate Royal Red Cross for her service in France.[1][5] She died on 4 October 1930. The following year, Jobson inaugurated an annual prize in Rosenthal's name for nurses at the Alfred Hospital, the Leah Rosenthal prize for best theatre nurse of the year.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Leah Rosenthal | Discovering Anzacs | National Archives of Australia and Archives NZ". discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "QAIMNS H to O – Looking for the Evidence". sites.google.com. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "NURSE LEAH ROSENTHAL". Jewish Herald (Vic. : 1879 – 1920). 30 November 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "Remembering the nurses who opened Vimy House". CEO Blog. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "Ro". Australian Nurses in World War 1. Archived from the original on 26 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.