Emma Maud MCCARTHY GBE, RRC

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MCCARTHY, Emma Maud

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sister
Last Unit:	Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Born:	Paddington, Sydney, NSW, 22 September 1859
Home Town:	Paddington, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Springfield College Sydney, University of Sydney
Occupation:	Nursing Sister
Died:	Natural Causes, At home, Chelsea, London, Middlesex, England, 1 April 1949, aged 89 years
Cemetery:	Hanwell Cemetery, Ealing London, England
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

Date unknown:	Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Sister, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Eldest child of William Frederick MCCARTHY (Solictor) and Emma Mary nee A'BECKETT.

Dame Emma Maud McCarthy received the following awards -

King's South Africa Medal 1902
Queen's South Africa Medal 1902
Royal Red Cross 1902
American Red Cross Medal 1918
Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire 1918
Florence Nightingale Medal 1918
Lady of Grace of St John of Jerusalem 1918
Medaille Epidemies an Vermeille (France) 1918
Royal Red Cross and Bar 1918
Chevalier of the Legion d’honneur (France) 1920
Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth (Belgium) 1921

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Australian Dictionary of Biography