Elma Linton Sandford (later Mrs Sandford-Morgan) was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1890.
[9] Sandford-Morgan assisted the Royal Australian Air Force Medical Service during World War II.
[10] She was appointed to a parliamentary commission investigating health services in South Australia at the close of the war.
[1] She wished to take up a position in Europe, and accepted a role as a medical officer at the Commonwealth Immigration camp in New South Wales.
[1] Sandford-Morgan returned to private practice in Australia, and then worked as a neoplasm registrar at the Anticancer Foundation of the University of Adelaide.