Ellen Barron

[1] Barron was born in Berkshire, England, was educated at Oxford and Queensland, and trained at the Brisbane General Hospital[2] from 1896 to 1899 and worked as staff nurse there from 1899 to 1901.

[1] Barron enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I.

[2] She took over the position of supervisor and organizer of the Queensland Government Baby Clinics from Florence Chatfield who had been the first appointee in 1918.

[5] Doris Bardsley who was to be the President of the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association was one of the women on this course at Diamantina Hospital.

[6] In 1928 Barron was appointed superintendent of nurses, Maternal and Child Welfare Service.