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THE WOMEN'S WORLD
ANZAC DAY MEETING
Returned Nurse to Speak

Keen interest has been aroused by announcement of the newly formed Yeronga sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. that at their citizens' meeting on Anzac night, April 25, Sister J Brydon. R.R.C. (now Mrs H. Wawn) will move the principal resolution at the request of the president Dr Ernest Culpin) and the Committee. No woman speaker has officiated at gatherings of this nature previously, but Mrs. Wawn's long and consistent war service makes her well qualified to figure on the list of speakers. Enlisting in 1915 she embarked for India where her nursing duties took her to Bombay and Poonah, and later to hospital ship work to and from Mesopotamia. From 1917 to 10919 she was in Salonica and was then decorated with the Royal Red Cross by the King at Buckingham Palace. Other speakers on Anzac night for this branch will include Sire Edward Macartney, Mr. J.B. Henderson, the Revs. B A Arnold and W G Magor and the Premier.

The Courier Mail Monday 15 April 1935 page 19

Tho Toowong Presbyterian Church was the scene of an interesting wedding on the evening of November 10, when the marriage was celebrated of Captain H. B. Wawn, D.C., M.M. (of Darlington, England, and Miss Jean Brydon, R.R.C., (youngest daughter of the late Mr. John Mackenzie Brydon and Mrs. Brydon, Indooroopilly). The Rev. W H Waters, B.A., officiated. The bride, who was given away by her uncle (Mr. A. W. Carson), wore a charming gown of cream crepe de Chine draped over old Duchess lace; the bridal veil was embroidered in silver, and a boquet of white carnations was carried. Miss Brydon (sister of the bride) acted as Bridesmaid, and was frocked in apricot georgette worn with a hat of cream lace, and carried a bouquet of blue delphiniums. Mr. T. A.Brydon acted as best man. After the ceremony the guests were entertained at a city cafe, where the tables were arranged in horseshoe fashion for the wedding dejeuner, and decorated with cream and coral tinted gerberas. On leaving for the honeymoon, which was spent in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Mrs. Wawn travelled in a costume of navy taffeta and a cellophane hat trimmed with fruit.

The Brisbane Courier Tuesday 21 December 1920 page 8