Appleford, Alice Ross (1891 - 1968)

Summary

Alice Appleford was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service during the First World War. She was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the Military Medal and the Royal Red Cross (2nd class). Appleford later assisted her husband in establishing a first aid military unit and was assistant commandant of the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs). During the Second World War Appleford was assistant controller of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, Victoria, rising to the rank of Major in 1942. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1945.

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Chronology

1917

Award - Military Medal (MM) received

1918

Award - Royal Red Cross (2nd Class) (ARRC) received

1945

Award - Royal Red Cross (RRC) received

1949

Award - Florence Nightingale Medal received from the International Committee of the Red Cross

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

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21078517. Details
• 'Ross-King, Alice (18910805-19680817)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465802. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Appleford, Alys (Alice) Ross, Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0247b.htm. Details

See also

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