Dr Winifred Wall spent her childhood in Broken Hill and Georgetown in the mid north of South Australia. After attending bush schools she went to Gladstone and Adelaide High Schools. Wall won a scholarship to study medicine at Adelaide University (1918-1922). She then worked at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where her duties included treating returned servicemen from World War I. She married Dr Fred Wall, they had four children, and she established a private practice. During World War II she returned to the Royal Adelaide Hospital where she specialised in anathesia. Foundation president of the Family Planning Association (South Australia), Wall was awarded Life membership of the Royal District Nursing Society, the Australian Medical Association and the British Medical Association. On 26 January 1979 Dr Wall was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly in the field of women’s affairs.
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1923
Member of the British Medical Association (awarded Life membership)
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1923
Life Member - Member of the Australian Medical Association (awarded Life membership)
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1925 - 1955
Medical practitioner in general practice
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1934
Foundation member of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (SA)
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1942 - 1958
Honorary anaesthetist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
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1955
Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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1955 - 1972
Specialist anaesthetist
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1961 - 1963
President of the Women Graduates Association at the University of Adelaide (later AFUW SA)
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1965 - 1967
President of the Graduates Union at the University of Adelaide
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1967
Initiated the establishment of the University of Adelaide Graduates Fund
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1968 - 1970
President of the South Australian Medical Women's Society
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1970 - 1973
President of the Family Planning Association (SA)
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26 January 1979
Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly in the field of Women's Affairs
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1992
Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
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Australian Women's Register