Eadith Walker

The family moved to their home, Yaralla, an Italianate mansion on the Parramatta River in Concord West, an inner-western suburb of Sydney.

When the First World War came she took a special interest in returned soldiers suffering from tuberculosis, and housed 32 of them at "The Camp" in the grounds of Yaralla Estate from 1917 to 1920.

Additionally, she supported sporting clubs, religious, educational, and health institutions, as well as returned soldiers after the First World War.

Another £100,000 was used to turn Yaralla into the Dame Eadith Walker convalescent home for men, and one-third of the income from another sum of £300,000 was set aside for its maintenance.

Both Yaralla and the Thomas Walker Hospital (now known as Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Unit) are now listed on the Register of the National Estate.