Person
Boyce, Una Parry (1911 - 2003)
AM OBE
- Born
- 6 April 1911
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 29 October 2003
- Occupation
- Nurse
Summary
Una Boyce trained and worked as a nurse and midwife during the 1930s. In 1961 she became state secretary of the War Widows Guild of Australia, New South Wales, a position she held for almost thirty years. Boyce was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1 January 1971, and Member of the Order of Australia, 10 June 1991, for her service to war widows.
Details
Chronology
- 1934
- Career position - General Trained Nurse
- 1935
- Career position - Registered Midwife at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital in London, UK
- 1936
- Career position - Diploma at the University of London, UK
- 1936 - 1938
- Career position - Sister Tutor at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- 1961 - 1989
- Career position - State Secretary of the War Widows Guild of Australia, New South Wales
- 1970
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1991
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Biographical cuttings on Una Boyce, former secretary of the War Widows' Guild of NSW, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. 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
Resources
- 'Boyce, Una Parry (1911-2003)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756059. Details
Resource Sections
- Heywood, Anne, 'Boyce, Una Parry (1911 - 2003)', in The Australian Women's Register, 1 May 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0447b.htm. 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: 15 June 2022