Person
Burchill, Dora Elizabeth (Elizabeth) (1904 - 2003)
OAM
- Born
- 4 January 1904
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 3 December 2003
Croydon, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Nurse and Author
Summary
Elizabeth Burchill worked as a nurse in many diverse locations, including England, Canada, the USA, New Guinea and Thursday Island. She has written several books about her nursing experience, including Thursday Island Nurse and The Paths I've Trod.
Details
Chronology
- 1930 - 1932
- Career position - Australian Inland Mission in Innamincka, South Australia
- 1937
- Career position - Member of Ambulance Unit from London at the Spanish Civil War
- 1938
- Career position - Grenfell Mission in Labrador, Canada
- 1940 - 1946
- Military service - Served in the Middle East and Australia with the Australian Army Nursing Service, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)
- 1946
- Career position - Writer and broadcaster at 3SR in Shepparton, Victoria
- 1952 - 1956
- Career position - Nursing work in Darwin
- 1958 - 1960
- Career position - Nursing work in Thursday Island
- 1961 - 1963
- Career position - Nursing work in New Guinea
- 1965 - 1967
- Career position - Nursing work in England
- 1969 - 1971
- Career position - Nursing work in the USA
- 1970
- Career position - Nursing work in Canada
- 1998
- Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) received
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Biographical cuttings on Elizabeth Burchill, writer, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
- Papers of Dora Elizabeth Burchill, 1931 - 1960, D 5541; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Burchill, Elizabeth, New Guinea Nurse (Adelaide: Rigby, 1967), 151 pp. Details
- Burchill, Elizabeth, Innamincka (Adelaide: Rigby, 1969), 173 pp. Details
- Burchill, Elizabeth, Thursday Island Nurse (Adelaide: Rigby, 1972), 139 pp. Details
- Burchill, Elizabeth, The Paths I've Trod (Melbourne: Spectrum Publications, 1981), 250 pp. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Hudson, Susan, 'A dedicated nurse who practised around the world', The Age (2004). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14954676. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/60796249. Details
- 'Burchill, Elizabeth (1908-2003)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458899. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 11 February 2003, Last modified: 5 April 2022