Doris Lyne Officer

Doris Lyne Officer OBE (28 June 1898 – 31 July 1967) was an English-Australian physician and paediatrician.

Doris Veale was born in 1898 in Sidcup, Kent, to an English father and an Australian mother.

She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and went on to study at the London School of Medicine for Women, graduating as MBBS in 1921.

She visited Australia in 1922 and 1923 and married Ernest Officer, a grazier from Wanganella, New South Wales.

[1][2] She was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal in 1953 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959.