<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?oxygen RNGSchema="shared/cpf.rng" type="xml"?>
<eac-cpf xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4 http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/schema/cpf.xsd">
<control>
<recordId>P004400</recordId>
<maintenanceStatus>revised</maintenanceStatus>
<maintenanceAgency>
<agencyCode>AU-VU:EOAS</agencyCode>
<agencyName>Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation</agencyName>
<descriptiveNote>
<p><h4>All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc</h4> 

These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists.</p>
</descriptiveNote>
</maintenanceAgency>
<languageDeclaration>
<language languageCode="eng">English</language>
<script scriptCode="Latn">Latin</script>
</languageDeclaration>
<conventionDeclaration>
<abbreviation>AACR2</abbreviation>
<citation>Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules</citation>
</conventionDeclaration>
<localControl localType="typeOfEntity">
<term>Person</term>
</localControl>
<maintenanceHistory>
<maintenanceEvent>
<eventType>created</eventType>
<eventDateTime standardDateTime="2003-03-10">2003-03-10</eventDateTime>
<agentType>human</agentType>
<agent>Ailie Smith</agent>
<eventDescription></eventDescription>
</maintenanceEvent>
<maintenanceEvent>
<eventType>updated</eventType>
<eventDateTime standardDateTime="2025-10-29">2025-10-29</eventDateTime>
<agentType>human</agentType>
<agent></agent>
<eventDescription></eventDescription>
</maintenanceEvent>
</maintenanceHistory>
</control>
<cpfDescription>
<identity><entityId>https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004400b.htm</entityId>
<entityType>person</entityType>
<nameEntry><part localType="familyname">Bechervaise</part>
<part localType="givenname">Shirley</part>
<part localType="honorific title">ARRC</part>
<authorizedForm>AACR2</authorizedForm>
</nameEntry>
</identity>
<description><places>
</places>
<occupations>
<occupation>
<term>Nurse</term>
</occupation>
</occupations>
<biogHist>
<abstract>Shirley Bechervaise trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. She was an Australian Army Nursing Sister during the second World War and was serving with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service in France at the time of the Evacuation from Dunkirk.</abstract>
<chronList><chronItem>
<dateRange><fromDate standardDate="1941-07-01">1 July 1941</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1941-07-01">1 July 1941</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Award - Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)</event>
</chronItem>
</chronList>

</biogHist>
</description>
<relations><cpfRelation cpfRelationType="identity" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475802">
<relationEntry>
Bechervaise, Shirley
</relationEntry>
<descriptiveNote><p>Trove</p>
</descriptiveNote>
</cpfRelation>
<resourceRelation resourceRelationType="subjectOf">
<relationEntry localType="published">'Bechervaise, Shirley', in <span style="font-style:italic">Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation</span>, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology</relationEntry>

<objectXMLWrap>
<bibref xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">
<title render="italic">Bechervaise, Shirley</title>
<imprint>
<publisher>Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation</publisher>
</imprint>
<bibseries>
<title render="italic">Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation</title>
</bibseries>
<extptr linktype="simple" href="https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004400b.htm"></extptr>
</bibref>
</objectXMLWrap>
</resourceRelation>
<resourceRelation resourceRelationType="other" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://www.eoas.info/bib/ASBS01063.htm">
<relationEntry localType="published">Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 1944</relationEntry>

<objectXMLWrap>
<bibref xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">
<name type="author">Alexander, John A.</name>
<title render="italic">Who's who in Australia 1944</title>
<edition>12th</edition>
<imprint>
<place>Melbourne, Victoria</place>
<publisher>The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd</publisher>
<date>1944</date>
</imprint>
</bibref>
</objectXMLWrap>

</resourceRelation>
</relations>
</cpfDescription>
</eac-cpf>