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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2003-03-07 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004397b.htm person Abbott Joan Stevenson RRC AACR2 11 December 1899 27 November 1975 Place of Birth Normanby Hill, Queensland, Australia Place of Death Corinda, Queensland, Australia Nurse Nurse educator Joan Abbott was a nurse and midwife at hospitals in Brisbane and Canberra. She also served as a matron in the Middle East while enlisted by the Australian Army Nursing Service. As matron she was in charge of fifty-five nurses and masseuses while they served in Greece, Egypt and Palestine. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 1st Class for her leadership and dedication when her Gaza Ridge hospital was expanded from 600 to 1500 beds in 1942. Joan Abbott finished her full-time duty in 1946 at the high rank of lieutenant colonel. In the same year she was awarded the Florence Nightingale International Foundation Scholarship to pursue eighteen months study at the Royal College of Nursing, London. Abbott later received the prestigious Florence Nightingale Medal - the Red Cross's highest international distinction award for the nursing - in 1957. After returning to Australia Joan Abbott continued her nursing duties, firstly as staff nurse for five years with the Commonwealth Savings Bank, then with a doctor in a private medical practice. 1920 1920 Career position - Probationer at the Brisbane General Hospital 1924 1924 Education - General (nurse) certificate c. 1924 c. 1924 Education - Midwifery Certificate, Lady Bowen Hospital in Wickham Terrace, Qld c. 1925 c. 1925 Education - State Child-Welfare Certificate completed in Queensland 1926 1928 Career position - Worked in baby clinics 1929 1937 Career position - Tutor Sister with the Brisbane and South Coast Hospitals Board 1937 1937 Career position - Midwife at the Canberra Community Hospital, Australian National Territory (NT) c. 1937 c. 1940 Life event - Travelled to England August 1940 August 1943 Military service - Matron with the Australian Army Nursing Service 2nd and 6th Australian General Hospital in Greece, Egypt and Palestine 1943 1943 Award - Royal Red Cross (RRC) 12 April 1943 12 April 1943 Military service - Made Lieutenant Colonel and posted to the Queensland Lines of Communication Area December 1943 1946 Military service - Matron then Principal Matron with the Australian Army Nursing Service in Qld 1946 1946 Life event - Retired from army service 1946 1948 Career position - Florence Nightingale International Foundation Scholarship for study at the Royal College of Nursing, London 1948 1948 Military service - Principal Matron with the Citizen Military Forces at the Northern Command headquarters 1948 1950s Career position - Tutor at Brisbane Hospital 1954 1956 Career position - President, Australian Trained Nurses' Association, Queensland division 1955 1958 Career position - Member of the Queensland State Nurses and Masseurs Registration Board 1957 1957 Award - Florence Nightingale Medal, International Committee of the Red Cross 1962 1962 Career position - Honorary Colonel in the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps Australian Army Nursing Service (1902 - 1948) 1940 1946

Between 1940 and 1946 Joan Abbott served as a Matron and then Principle Matron with the Australian Army Nursing Service.

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 Abbott, Joan Stevenson (1899-1970)

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 'Abbott, Joan Stevenson', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Abbott, Joan Stevenson Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Abbott, Joan Stevenson (1899-1975), nursing sister and army matron Fulloon, Gillian Abbott, Joan Stevenson (1899-1975), nursing sister and army matron Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1993 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De John Ritchie 3-4 Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 1944 Alexander, John A. Who's who in Australia 1944 12th Melbourne, Victoria The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd 1944