Matron Gwladys M. Thomas Memorial

Details

Location Old Monash Medical School Building, Ground Floor Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Type plaque
Description

This large metal plaque made from metal and brass is to the memory of Matron G. M. Thomas, Alfred Hospital Graduate 1933,was Matron of Hamilton Hospital and was killed in action in 1941.The plaque contains a 3D image of G. m Thomas wearing her Alfred Hospital Nurses League badge.

A plaque in memory of Matron Gladys Thomas, of the 2/4 AGH, who was killed in an air raid at Kantara in the last war, will be unveiled at the Alfred Hospital Nurses' League At Home at the hospital tonight. Matron Thomas was an Alfred trainee. Miss Grace Wilson. RRC, OBE, will perform the ceremony. During the evening an informal talk on Scandinavia will be given by Miss Nancy Long, a Florence Nightingale scholarship winner, who recently returned from abroad. All past Alfred trainees are invited to attend.
Herald (Melbourne), 2 May 1949.

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Built circa 1942 - 1946
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

IN MEMORY OF
MATRON GWLADYS M. THOMAS
AIF
TRAINEE of ALFRED HOSPITAL
KILLED IN ACTION 1941
'NEITHER COUNTED SHE HER LIFE DEAR UNTO HERSELF'

Condition

Good

Names

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THOMAS, Gwladys Margaret

Service number VX8377
Matron
Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 24 Jun 1907

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