Irene Victoria Read

Her parents were the Scottish-born Margaret Thomson (born Stobo) and Henry Phillips.

She lobbied the Australian Comforts Fund on the patients behalf to ensure they were given their basic needs.

She returned to Australia and worked in support of the Comforts Fund and also speaking publicly about the conditions she had witnessed.

[1] In 1921, her friend Lucy Gullett worked with Harriet Biffen to create what became the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children in 1925.

Read's involvement grew stronger, she was the hospital's president from 1930 to 1950[1] with Gullett as her vice-president from 1932 to 1949.