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Daughter of Mrs. A ROBERTSON
Of Colebook
For some years past has been a nurse at the Hobart General Hospital

NURSES FOR THE FRONT
HOBART, Monday.— By the steamer Aberdeen, which left here yesterday morning for the Cape, filters Mansfield and White and Nurse Robinson departed with the object of getting attached to the Red Cross Staff of the British Army. They carry with them letters of introduction to Sir Thomas Fitzgerald and the British medical officers from many of the leading doctors of Hobart, also one from the Governor (Lord Gormanston) to Sir Alfred Milner, Commissioner of South Africa. All the young ladies ate proceeding to the Seat of war at their own expense.

Daily Telegraph Tuesday 03 April 1900 page 2

In a place of honour at the Diggers' reunion in Hobart on Saturday night will be Miss Minnie M. Robertson, who served as a nurse in the Boer War. Miss Robertson, who is aged about 76, completed training with the General Hospital, Hobart, in 1899, and in that year sailed for South Africa. She stayed on there after the war and afterwards lived and worked in South America and England. In the First World War, Miss Robertson served, for more than four years. She now lives in Hobart, staying at the Nurses' Club in Macquarie St.

The Mercury (Hobart) Tuesday 16 February 1954 page 4