Cawood, Dorothy Gwendolen (1884-1962)

Field of activity
Nurse and Servicewoman; army nurse; hospital matron (general); nurse (general)
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CAWOOD, DOROTHY GWENDOLEN (1884-1962), nurse, was born on 9 December 1884 at Parramatta, New South Wales, seventh child of John Cawood, carpenter, and his English-born wife Sarah Travis, née Garnett. No details of her education are known but in 1909 she began four years nursing training at Coast Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, and was registered with the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association on 14 May 1913.

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Dorothy Cawood commenced her nursing training in 1909, and on 14 November 1914 enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). On 22 July 1917, while attached to the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Armentieres, Cawood along with two other sisters, Clare Deacon and Alice Ross-King (later Appleford), evacuated patients from burning buildings while the station was being bombed. All three sisters were awarded Military Medals for their action. Later, while stationed at the 6th Australian General Hospital, Cawood was mentioned in despatches for 'distinguished and gallant service in the field'. At the end of the war, Cawood joined the nursing staff at the State Hospital (Liverpool) and in 1928 became matron at the David Berry Hospital, Berry, a position she held until her retirement in 1943. Dorothy Cawood never married and died on 16 February 1962.

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  1. The Diggers : makers of the Australian military tradition
    Coulthard-Clark, Chris
    [1993]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  2. Cawood, Dorothy Gwendolen (1884-1962)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Cawood, Dorothy Gwendolen (1884-1962)
    Abbott, Jacqueline
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070602b.htm

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