Biographical entry Laidlaw, Annie Ina (1889 - 1978)

Summary

Annie Laidlow trained as a nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. She served in India with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during the First World War. Between the wars Laidlow continued to work at the Royal Children's Hospital, rising to the position of lady superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section. When the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service was established in 1942, Laidlow was appointed superintending sister and head of the service. She was later promoted to matron. In 1946 she returned to her position at the Royal Children's Hospital. Laidlow later worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London, and the Freemason's Home of Victoria.

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Events

1913 - 1916

Education - Nurse training at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne

1916 - 1917

Career position - Staff Nurse at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne

1917 - 1919

Career position - Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and sent to India where she worked in hospitals in Bombay and Poona

1919 - 1925

Career position - Ward Sister at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne

1925

Education - Midwifery training at the Hospital for Women, Sydney

1926 - 1930

Career position - Assistant Lady Superintendent (Assistant-Matron) at the Children's Hospital in Melbourne

1930 - 1942

Career position - Lady Superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section of the Children's Hospital in Frankston, Victoria

1942 - 1943

Career position - Superintending Sister of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service

1943 - 1946

Career position - Matron of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service

1946 - 1950

Career position - Lady Superintendent of the Orthopaedic Section of the Children's Hospital in Frankston, Victoria

1951 - 1952

Career position - Home Sister at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London

1952 - 1957

Career position - Resident Matron at the Freemason's Homes of Victoria, Prahran

1957

Life event - Retired

Archival resources

Australian War Memorial Research Centre

• Annie Laidlaw, Portrait, 1944, ART22219; Australian War Memorial Research Centre. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Vines, Patricia C., 'Laidlaw, Annie Ina (1889-1978), navy matron', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 45-46. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150059b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Laidlaw, Annie Ina', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756082. Details

See also

• Alexander, John A. (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 1944, vol. 12, The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Melbourne, 1944, 906 pp. Details