Wall, Annie (1900-2001)

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Medical practitioner
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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.

  • 1923 Member of the British Medical Association (awarded Life membership)
  • 1923 Life Member - Member of the Australian Medical Association (awarded Life membership)
  • 1925 - 1955 Medical practitioner in general practice
  • 1934 Foundation member of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (SA)
  • 1942 - 1958 Honorary anaesthetist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
  • 1955 Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
  • 1955 - 1972 Specialist anaesthetist
  • 1961 - 1963 President of the Women Graduates Association at the University of Adelaide (later AFUW SA)
  • 1965 - 1967 President of the Graduates Union at the University of Adelaide
  • 1967 Initiated the establishment of the University of Adelaide Graduates Fund
  • 1968 - 1970 President of the South Australian Medical Women's Society
  • 1970 - 1973 President of the Family Planning Association (SA)
  • 26 January 1979 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly in the field of Women's Affairs
  • 1992 Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986
    National Council of Women of South Australia
    [1986]
    Published: Wakefield Press
  2. Who's who of Australian women
    Lofthouse, Andrea
    [1982]
    Published: Methuen Australia
  3. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: Annie Winifred Wall : SUMMARY RECORD (1845 - 1954)
    Papers of the King, Clark, Langthorn and Wall families comprising correspondence, genealogical notes and photographs assembled by Dr A.W. Wall.
    PRG 371
  4. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: Interview with Winifred Wall [sound recording] Interviewer: Beth M. Robertson (1979)
    South Australian Women's Responses to the First World War Winifred Wall was fourteen years old and attending Adelaide High School at the outbreak of the First World War. Winifred went on to study medicine at Adelaide University in 1918 and she speaks of the example of older women doctors. She discusses her unquestioning response to the war as well as its positive impact on attitudes to working women.
    OH 31/35
  5. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: Interview with Winifred Wall [sound recording] Interviewer: Barbara Baird (6 September 1993)
    Family Planning Association Oral History
    OH 197/3
  6. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: Interview with Winifred Wall [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott (1988)
    Adelaide Lyceum Club Oral History Dr Winifred talks about her childhood in Broken Hill and Georgetown in the mid north of South Australia, bush schooling, Gladston and Adelaide High Schools, medicine scholarship, two other female medical students 1918-1922 - Dorothy Adams and Ricca Hubbe - Royal Adelaide Hospital, returned servicemen, marriage to Dr Fred wall, four children, private practice, World War II, specialising in anathesia and working at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, committee involvement, President of the Medical Women's Society, member of the Adelaide University Council, awards, and involvement in the Lyceum Club.
    SRG 438/29/1
  7. National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room: [Biographical cuttings on Winifred Wall, Dr., anaesthetist]
  8. The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library Special Collections: Papers of the Australian Federation of University Women South Australia, Inc. (1914 - 1999)
    SR 376.65099423 A938p

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