Constance Amy Fall

She received a mention in dispatches and was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her efforts Following the war, Fall divided her working time between the army and the King George V Memorial Hospital, and travelled abroad to study administrative practices for obstetric training schools.

She received the Florence Nightingale Medal in 1971 for distinguished nursing services and for her work with the Red Cross, and in 1976 she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

[11] In 1948, she received a nursing scholarship from the British Council (the first to be awarded to an Australian), which she used to research administrative practices for obstetric training schools.

[15] Fall retired from the army in 1959[11] and left her job at the King George V Hospital the following year, subsequently taking on a new matron position at the New South Wales Masonic Homes in 1961.

[5] In 1971, she was awarded the international Florence Nightingale Medal, granted for her distinguished nursing services in peacetime and wartime and for "outstanding work with the Australian Red Cross".

A white woman wearing glasses and a nurse's uniform sits at a desk, pen and paper in hand.
Constance Amy Fall in 1939