Tales of the Towers

Elizabeth Harrison children Walter, John (Jack) and Margaret

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Item TypephotographDatec1920sContent‘Labour of Love: The History of the Nurses Association in Queensland 1860-1950’ by Glenda Strachan (1996 Allen & Unwin) give the following info about Elizabeth Harrison:
“Elizabeth Harrison, nee Beames, trained as a nurse in Townsville Hospital from 1900 to 1903. She married and worked as a private nurse in Ravenswood in north Queensland until 1914, when, widowed with three children, she went to Brisbane and trained for six months at the Lady Bowen Hospital to become a qualified midwifery nurse. At this time she became a member of the ATNA (Australasian Trained Nurses Association). She returned to North Queensland and ran a private hospital, Mt Alma, in Charters Towers.”

Children Walter Leslie Norwood (b 1904), Margaret Florence (b 1906) and John Gilbert (Jack) (b 1908)DigitisedYesStatusFoundMaterial DescriptionphotoIdentifier2004.9097

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