Dorothy Gwendolen Cawood, MM (9 December 1884 – 16 February 1962) was an Australian civilian and military nurse.

She was one of the first three members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) to be awarded the Military Medal in the First World War.

[2] After school, Cawood trained as a nurse at the Coast Hospital, Little Bay, and worked there until her enlistment.

Cawood was further honoured by being mentioned in the despatch of Sir Douglas Haig on 7 November 1917 "for distinguished and gallant service between the period Feby 26 M/N to September 26 M/N 1917".

[4][6][7] On her return to Sydney, Cawood took a position nursing at the Liverpool State Hospital and Asylum.